A column of trucks carrying grain from the seasonal harvest is seen moving along a road in rural Ukraine. A column of horse-drawn wagons also moves along the road, giving way to the motor vehicles. (Rains have delayed the harvest and collective farmers are anxious to deliver their grain.) Trucks are parked in a muddy lot and farmers carry sacks of grain, on their shoulders, to a central collection point. Soviet authorities examine the grains being delivered. Women fill sacks with grain from their trucks and men carry them into the collection warehouse. The last scene shows a truck displaying a large picture of Joseph Stalin atop the cab.
United States pilots aboard USS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) in United States. Two U.S. pilots stand in ready room. A map hung on a wall of the ready room. The pilots talk and examine the map. The pilots shake hands. Officer runs his finger along a relief map.
American inventor and electrical engineer Lee De Forest seen examining a vacuum tube. Exterior view of Lee De Forest Building in Hollywood, California, with sign on the building that reads 'Lee De Forest Laboratories'. A view of the buildings in Hollywood, including Brown Derby Restaurant (faintly in foreground), NBC Radio City-Hollywood building, Bullock’s Wilshire, and other offices and buildings near intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Alexandria Avenue. Vehicular traffic on the street. Elevated Hollywood view showing Warner Bros. Hollywood Theater & Studio facilities along Sunset Boulevard, Warner Bros. Hollywood studios and sound stages (sometimes called the Warner Bros. Sunset studios), and the Hollywood Storage Co. building near Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street.
Subcommittee meeting of U.S. House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC), in Los Angeles, California. A witness, Johannes (Hanns) Eisler, is sworn in, flanked by his two attorneys. Mr. Eisler reads a statement. He says that he is being prevented from earning a living. He is separated from the Hollywood film industry, accused of being a communist Soviet Agent. He asks that his attorneys be permitted to cross-examine any witnesses who may testify about him, and refers to such privilege being extended by Congressional committees to Howard Hughes and Wendell Wilkie.
United States Navy Medical Civic Action Program (MedCAP) in Vietnam. A native boat near a shore. Trees and buildings on the shore. A U.S. Navy Swift Boat (patrol boat) underway at sea. United States flag on the boat. A Vietnamese boat approaches the Swift Boat. The MedCAP team boards the native boats. They are ferried to the shore. United States Navy Medical Civic Action Program is set on the porch of a Vietnamese school. A sign on the school reads in Vietnamese. Villagers line up for the medical examination. The villagers are treated.
Opening scene depicts (dramatized) the presence of German submarines off the Atlantic Coast, delivering Nazi German saboteurs of Operation Pastorius to Long Island, New York and to Florida in 1942. View of German submarines in the ocean. A scientist in a FBI laboratory examines explosives found when the sabotage attempt was uncovered, including blocks of TNT and explosives designed to look like lumps of coal. J. Edgar Hoover describes how the explosives were designed to target American citizens and war industries during World War 2. Paddy wagons with military guards standing on read door platforms are seen entering court facility in Washington DC. View inside the paddy wagons of German agents ("submarine saboteurs") being brought to military trial. View of the accused and the military officers of the court sitting in court during the trial. Military judges are seen seated during the trial proceedings. View of a wall of file cabinets and a hand reaching into a cabinet marked "secret." Past events show Adolf Hitler in meetings with his staff. An animated map shows Nazi symbol overlaying an outline of the United States. A United States flag in the background. The director of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) John Edgar Hoover in the United States. He sits at a desk in his office. He talks about enemy agents, Hitler's desire to punish the United States, and the victory of the United States over them.
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