Documentaries
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Speeding Up Your Business - 1922
The location of the story is the Postal Service, at the central sorting station at the foot of Bay Street in Toronto. Conveyors are featured assisting the sorting and movement of mail, with the employees working to the pace of the conveyors. The implication is that this technology might have broa...
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Harrier - The Jump Jet
From Cold War hover rigs to the dust-stripped battlefields of Afghanistan, the Harrier Jump Jet redefined the boundaries of combat aviation. Developed by British engineers with the revolutionary Pegasus engine, the Harrier became the world’s first operational fixed-wing V/STOL aircraft—capable of...
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Bombing of Pearl Harbor and Burning of S.S. Normandie (1942)
Eugene Castle was a newsreel photographer starting around 1925. In 1937 he started marketing 8mm and 16mm movies for home use, one of the first to do so, and his company was immensely successful until home video made it obsolete by 1984.
He started out selling newsreel compilations, many of which... -
The Fighting Lady (1944)
The film was directed by Edward Steichen with William Wyler as an uncredited co-director. The battle footage is absolutely first-rate, much of it captured by automated cameras directly mounted on the aircraft guns.
The carrier is never named in the film because of wartime restrictions, but was la... -
The March (1964)
The March (1964) is a documentary directed by James Blue on the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, one of the watershed events of American history, made by the United States Information Agency for showing outside of the USA. Only in 1990 did it become available domestically. Its high ...
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Massacre at Murfreesboro: Battle of Stones River
On December 26, 1862, Major General William S. Rosecrans' Army of the Cumberland finally leaves its base at Nashville and advances towards General Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee stationed around Murfreesboro. After 4 days of maneuvering around Middle Tennessee, the two armies meet just west of...
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Normandy: the Airborne Invasion of Fortress Europe (1944)
This was an American Air Forces film of 1947, largely based on an in-service film DZ Normandy from 1944. Intended as it was for active servicemen, it goes into considerable detail as to the methods and strategies employed in the initial stages of the invasion of Normandy, employing over 500 glide...
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Life of Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot
Oskar Ziesig, born in 1919 in Gelsenkirchen near Essen, Germany, recounts his life, military career, and capture as a Luftwaffe pilot during World War II in an interview conducted in Australia on August 13, 2004. His firsthand account is creatively interwoven with period archival footage and prec...
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The Woman Who Killed Nazis with her Bare Hands
This is the untold story of Nancy Wake — journalist, smuggler, spy, resistance commander, and certified Nazi nightmare. Known as The White Mouse by the Gestapo for her ability to evade capture, Nancy became one of the most decorated women of World War II — and one of the boldest.
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How One German UBOAT Humiliated the Royal Navy
On the night of October 13, 1939, a single German U-boat slipped past British defenses and entered Scapa Flow—Britain’s most heavily guarded naval base.
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Countering UAS Threats
Counter Small UAS (C-S-UAS), aimed at neutralizing small drones (up to 25kg) on the battlefield. The Australian Defence Force (ADF) targets cost-effective solutions like DroneShield’s RfPatrol Mk 2 and DroneGun Mk4 (jamming, swarm-capable), alongside "hard kill" options like lasers and the M230 B...
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The Night of Long Knives: Hitler's Purge
The Night of the Long Knives, occurring on June 30, 1934, was a purge in Nazi Germany orchestrated by Adolf Hitler. Aimed at consolidating his power and eliminating potential rivals, the purge primarily targeted the SA (Sturmabteilung) leadership, including Ernst Röhm, and other political adversa...
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Hitler’s WW1 Gas Attack: Changing the Course of History Forever
In October 1918, near the Belgian town of Ypres, a young German corporal named Adolf Hitler was caught in a British gas attack. Temporarily blinded, he was evacuated from the front just weeks before the war ended.
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Comparing the F-35 Lightning II
The F-35 Lightning II has become the defining fifth-generation multirole fighter of the 21st century, with widespread adoption across allied air forces. But despite their similar appearance, the three main variants—the F-35A, F-35B, and F-35C—are distinct aircraft, each engineered for specific ro...