Russian workers eating at a community facility in Russia. Outside can be seen a playground, with tennis court. Several people play tennis at the community facility and some gather in a classroom to look at an art exhibit. Local slum housing and shacks in Soviet Union are shown.
Operation Barbarossa. The German campaign against Russia during World War II. A map showing positions of Witebsk, Ulla, Ostrow, Pleskau, See, Peipus, Petersburg in the Soviet Union. Several horses grazing in a field. A German soldier resting on a grassy ground with his face covered with a cap. A German soldier seated on a horse cart writing a note. A note pad kept on the back of the horse. Two German soldiers seated in the back of a truck above baggage. German soldiers walking in columns on a path. Trucks, artillery, tanks of 7.Pz.Div. and infantry moving on a path between fields. Several huts in the background. German soldiers beside artillery on a field. A soldier fires artillery. Smoke rising from explosions in shelled areas. A building on fire in the background. Soldiers firing antitank guns on the field. Thick smoke rising from shelled positions. The soldiers advancing and firing machine guns. A soldier lying in a trench firing a gun. A wire fence in view. Soldiers on the top of a hut viewing through binoculars. Soldiers on a truck moving beside the huts. Damaged houses in view. Soldiers among debris spread beside the houses. A building in flames in the background. Smoke rising into the air. Two soldiers carrying a wounded German soldier on a stretcher. The soldiers bandaging the leg of the wounded soldier.
National Program for air-warfare in Russia. A formation of Russian aircraft flies overhead. The formation of Russian aircraft forms a star. The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Marshal Joseph Stalin standing at an airfield and talks to staff officers. A formation of four-engine Russian bombers in low flight overhead. Paratroopers bail out of the airplanes.
Population worldwide shown waiting for news about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Groups of people watching televisions and listening to radios. Press announcement in front of White House that President Kennedy has received message from Nikita Khrushchev, Secretary of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, saying that Russia will dismantle missile sites in Cuba. Views of various ships in United States fleet. Military band playing at port as wives and children of U.S. military service men return to Guantanamo, hug and greet the service men, and celebrate. View of a small church and citizens entering the church. Americans going to work. Reconnaissance photos showing missiles dismantled, and showing shadow of the photographing aircraft, itself. Soviet ships carrying missiles out of Cuba. American men, women, and children pedestirans walking on sidewalks in the downtown area of a town, past shops and stores. A man entering a building beside a fallout shelter sign. Department of Defense logo is shown at end of film, followed by on screen text, "If our country should ever be attacked by nuclear weapons, people at ground zero would be lost. But millions more, outside these areas of complete destruction, would be spared, only to be imperiled by radioactive fallout. Today, the nation is better prepared to meet this threat, as the community fallout shelter program goes forward. But much work still remains to be done. Cuba may not be the last crisis we'll be called on to face. But let it be the last we'll face unprepared.
Allied leaders at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Russia during World War II. Officials arrive for the conference. Three Allied leaders seated around a table at the conference. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin at the desk. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, James F. Byrnes, Harry Hopkins and Alger Hiss seated at the table. The officials around the conference table. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill discuss at the table. Stalin talks to People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov and U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union W. Averell Harriman.
Clip features multiple views of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin near time of Russian Revolution. However, opening scene is from 1923, showing cars parked near the Kremlin in Moscow during time of the XII Congress of the Russian Communist Party which Lenin did not attend due to illness. Views of office and desk area. Russian Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin in his office. Lenin reviews an honor guard after the October Revolution by the Bolsheviks in Russia. Soldiers salute Lenin during a ceremony at the Red Square in Moscow. Soviet workers at a ship port, working to load goods onto ships at harbor. More scenes of Lenin viewing soldiers including some who appear to be new recruits marching and undergoing drills in training. Lenin leans out of train car or truck and talks with his secretary sitting in his wagon. Soviet Russian soldiers assembling near Kremlin in Soviet Union.
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