Map showing 'Caucasians,'points to spot near Caspian Sea. Coach (carriage) of Tsar is manually wheeled along by men through a large gate (into storage?). Young women applying lipstick at beach wearing swim suits.
Opening scene shows a number of women at drafting tables using engineer or architect drafting aids as they work on technical drawings. When alerted to the end of their work session, they all get up from their desks, don their coats and leave the building. Change of scene shows a woman returning to her lathe in a machine shop. A supervisor uses a pair of calipers to measure the item she is machining. Closeup of the woman's lathe shows she is using a facing tool on the part being machined. Closeup of the woman as she works. Closeups of other women also working in the machine shop. One uses a drill and two use lathes.
Peaceful scenes of pre-war England, showing a church with sheep grazing on its lawn, and a college building with ivy growing on the walls. In contrast, explosion and results of German bombing is shown, with buildings collapsing and ruined from the German blitz over England. A long line of Chinese soldiers marching along the Great Wall of china. Shadows of three Japanese bombers flying over Chinese landscape. On May 4, 1942, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek decorates American fliers who made the first attack on Tokyo in World War 2. Wearing a Chinese decoration around his neck, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who led that raid by U.S. B-25 bombers from the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet, poses with Madame Chiang and others of his group. Scenes of Moscow, Soviet Russia, including a T-70 light tank moving rapidly along a city street. A Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bomber taking off in a snow storm. U.S. troops on a halftrack in North Africa. British artillerymen firing a 25 pounder in the desert. Glimpses of smoke rising from enemy strikes at cities in England, Russia, and China. Scenes of destruction from bombing. Brief street scenes of unharmed and intact towns and cities in the United States, including brief New York City scene of pedestrians and traffic in Times Square. Defense workers in America going to work at Ranger Aircraft Engines factory (later part of Fairchild Aircraft and Engine Corporation), and a star flag showing war service by worker families. Farmers in Western U.S. harvesting grain. Railroad trains and river barges carrying harvest from U.S. farms. Herds of cattle and sheep being raised for the war effort in Western U.S. Aerial view of orchards and farms in America. A mining bucket filled with iron ore. Barge carrying the ore. A steel mill in operation. Scrap iron being recycled. View from production floor of U.S. bomber aircraft being built in a defense plant. Countless freight cars in a railroad marshaling yard at a port, where a tug boat and a freighter are seen in the water. War materiel piled up at the port. A convoy of supply ships underway.
Soviet civilians contribute to war effort in the Soviet Union during World War II. Soviet citizens place money on a table. A man addresses the civilians as women listen. Women pack dish ware. Food grains being packed in sacks. Milk being poured in containers. Food bags loaded onto horse drawn carts which pull away. T-34 tanks being manufactured in a factory. The tanks roll out of a factory. A Russian tank crew lined up on a field as an officer decorates the crew.
Soviet prisoners of war march along the street of a town in the Ukraine during the short war between Poland and Soviet Russia following World War 1. Trees in the background. Two Polish officers are seen, outside a hut, giving instructions to two prisoners, who are then led away by an armed guard. An area filled with potatoes, on the ground. Prisoners take some of the potatoes away in cartons. Prisoners are seen eating bread.
Views of people from various countries of the world and of South America about the Cuban revolution and rule of Fidel Castro in Cuba. A crowd carrying banners opposes landing of United States ambassador in Cuba. An airplane lands at airport of Havana. Russian Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan alights from it. Mikoyan during various public appearances in Cuba. Brother of Fidel Raul Castro with Soviet leaders in Russia. Parade of artillery weapons, warplanes and soldiers in Havana. Cuban Foreign Minister walks out of a meeting when asked about their military policies. Castro addresses crowd about international relation with Russia and China. School children prepared for military operation march. A Brazilian expert talks about regime of Fidel Castro.
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