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- A short documentary which chronicles the riots that occurred in Chicago when the Republic Steel employees went on strike on Memorial Day, May 26, 1937.
- This 58 (fifty-eight) minute feature was produced by the Paramount Newsreel department ("The Eyes and Ears of the World") and vaguely suggests that the Italian campaign of World War II that in the way the "Forgotten Campaign of WWII" was vital to the whole defeat of Hitler and Nazi Germany, the Korean campaign may be vital to stopping communism. Primarily the central action of the film covers the aerial bombardment of the famed monastery "Montecassino," which the Nazis had fortified and used to slow down the Allied march through Italy to France and Germany. Part of the film is told around the exploits of U. S. Army Sergeant James W. Logan, and U. S. Army Captain David Ludlum, a weather-forecasting officer. The long months of the war after the liberation of Rome are passed over, but a lot of footage dealing with the landings at Salerno, and the dreary battles and muddy conditions there---documented elsewhere by famed war-correspondent Ernie Pyle and "Stars and Stripes" cartoonist Bill Mauldin, with his "Wille and Joe" strips.
- Annualy, the newsreel divisions of the various studios (Paramount News, RKO Pathe News, Fox Movietone News, etc.)would put together an end-of-the-year recap two-reeler, culled from their weekly newsreels, of the major events, trends in fashions and movies and other headlines from the year just ending. This one from Paramount News ranges from the "new look" in feminine fashion to the escalation of the "cold war" between Moscow and Washington. Other news events covered include the Texas City, Texas nitrate blast; the partitioning of Palestine by the United Nations; the congressional investigations into the activities of oil man/airplane builder/movie maker Howard Hughes and his associate Bennett E. Meyers; the effects of the Marshall Plan to contain Commuunism; the efforts of the United Nations General Assembly to secure peace, despite the continued abuse of the veto by the Soviet delegates, and Russia's threat to Greece, Turkey and the Mediterranean area. Other newsmakers shown included President Harry S. Truman, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, New York governor Thomas E. Dewey, General Douglas MacArthur, Henry Wallace and Senators Taft, Saltonstall, Vendenberg and others.
- Newsreel footage of some of the most outrageous early flying contraptions--some of which even succeeded in lifting off the ground.
- Profiling French Prime Minister Pierre Laval who helped the Nazi's after England sunk and killed 1,300 french sailors and was later found guilty of treason and hung.
- Chaim Mordechaj Rumkowski, a Polish Jew who helped the Nazis, is profiled.
- Nazi Hunters looks at life of Martin Bormann who rose to power with the Nazis by positioning himself as Hitler's personal secretary. At the end of the war, he fled from the Fuhrerbunker and disappeared one of the most sought after and highest ranking Nazi fugitive. Despite efforts by Simon Wiesenthal, Bormann is not found. Eventually, a skeleton is discovered in Germany is matched to Bormann. It is believed he died shortly after his escape from the Fuhrerbunker.
- Nazi Hunters looks at the life and death of Hermann Goering the Commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe and Hitler's anointed successor. At the end of the war, Goering is the only Nazi of Hitler's inner circle left alive. The Allies desperately wish to put him on trial and execute him. Unfortunately, he manages to avoid this fate by committing suicide with poison that was somehow smuggled into his cell.
- 1997–200126mTV-14TV EpisodeWhen the enigmatic actress was swept off her feet by the charming silent star, John Gilbert, both their careers were almost destroyed when he took on Hollywood's mightiest moguls.
- 1997–200126mTV-14TV EpisodeIn what became one of Hollywood's most fascinating and stormiest affairs, two personal and public lives were ultimately broken by the pressure of their own success.