Moscow circus on a tour of the United States. A large audience gather at Madison Square Garden in New York to watch the Moscow circus as a part of the cultural exchange between America and Soviet Union. Stilt wearing acrobats and cossack riders amaze the audiences. The bears amuse the spectators the most. A bear carries a dog, two bears in a boxing match. Bears entertain the crowd on a merry go round.
Soviet Union RPG-7 anti tank rocket fired during a demonstration in Vietnam. Fuel drums filled with dirt being used as targets as a Soviet RPG-7 rocket hits them in Vietnam. A cloud of smoke rises. A second round being fired and strikes the target. Rocket being removed from the rocket launcher by an American soldiers. After section of the rocket launcher as smoke and flame come out of the rear tubes. Captain M.S. Fletcher of the United States Army carries the rocket. Another soldier spins something off rear of the rocket. Captain Fletcher holds the rocket. Rocket bing inserted into the launch tube. Soldiers grouped around the rocket launcher. Rocket being launched and an explosion takes place in mid air. (Vietnam War period).
Soviet Union RPG-7 anti tank rocket being fired during a demonstration in Vietnam. Group of Australian soldiers stand around as they watch the demonstration. Rocket section being unwrapped from a tape. American soldier works on the rocket. Rear section of rocket being unscrewed. Rocket being inserted into the tube. Officer orders to fire. RPG-7 rocket launcher ready to be fired by remote control. American soldier fires the rocket by hand. Soldiers of Australian Armored Corps 1st Task Force with their fingers in ears as they watch the firing of rocket. American soldier fires rocket from their shoulders. Australian soldiers around a truck in the background. Australian soldier with a rocket on his shoulder. American soldier loads the rocket and an Australian soldier fires it. He removes the launcher and sets it on a tripod. (Vietnam War period).
In 1956, crowds of Hungarians walk peaceably in their Capital, Budapest, calling for establishment of their own style of communist rule. A woman waves a Hungarian flag from a window. A communist star is pulled down from atop a building. On October 24, 1956 Hungarian authorities crack down, with police supported by Russian troops from local garrison. Russian soldiers in T-34 tanks seen on city street. View of Russian soldiers leaving the area aboard a T-34 tank. Hungarians battling their police. View of Prime Minister,Imry Nagy, ascending steps of a government building. Narrator states that Nagy declares Hungary neutral in conflict between Soviet Union and the West. Soviet books and documents being burned. The next sequence shows Soviet T-34 tanks entering Hungary in force, on November 4, 1956. One is seen firing from a city street. Picture of Imre Nagy shown as Narrator says his execution was announced on June 17, 1958.
Views of the Berlin Wall under construction in 1961. West Berlin street scene, contrasted to scenes of East Berlin across the border, still showing unrepaired damage from World War II and otherwise lacking development. Views of East German border guards retrieving the body of Gunter Litfin from the River Spree, after his unsuccessful attempt to flee East Germany. A floral tribute to Ida Siekmann, on barbed wire at the border. View of forests in mists. Refugees with their belongings walking from East Germany over a bridge to West Berlin. View of Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. A C-54 transport airplane taking off. Buildings along the border of East and West Berlin with windows cemented shut along the Berlin Wall. Barbed wire at the border. Armed East German border guards across the border. Views of the Berlin wall border wall. Views of the moon, and stars. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,making a forceful point while speaking at a meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in New York, in October,1960. Seated beside him is Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister. U.S. President John F. Kennedy addressing the UN. U.S. Sailors helping Vietnam refugees from an open stake truck. U.S. soldiers attacking and firing machine guns in Korean War. Two U.S. warships at sea. A physician attending a patient. U.S. representative providing advice and assistance to foreign farmers. The Washington Monument, in Washington, DC. Statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, DC. The Jefferson Memorial. Statue of Thomas Jefferson.
Dignitaries arrive for the Potsdam Conference at Cecilienhof Palace (Im Neuen Garten, 14469 Potsdam, Germany) in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. The palace building and gardens. Red flowers planted in the shape of a star called the 'Big Red Star' in a garden. Green lawns and a river in the background. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill; United States President Harry S. Truman and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin arrive at Cecilienhof Palace. The Big Three seated in chairs in the garden. Photographers take pictures.
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