World War II in Color - End of the War

Interview with Iris Schlapp on her experiences during World War 2

Crowds gather at the Walter Bulter Shipbuilders shipyard as Liberty Ships are launched sideways during World War II.

Extract from World In Action - An Island at War

Various World War II Scenes

United States Entry to World War II

United States Entry to World War II

Soldiers enter Fort Saint-Nicolas and crowds celebrate the liberation of Marseilles by cheering for parading Allied troops in World War 2.

London During World War II

World War II in Colour: American / Japanese Air Battle

London

That Justice Be Done 1945 World War Two film movie nazi war crimes nuremberg trials

Nazis build an Atlantic Wall consisting of obstacles and bunkers and heavy guns in preparation for the Normandy Invasion in World War 2.

V-E Day

Nagasaki Bombing

Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie is restored and Italian prisoners of war are marched out of Libya in the aftermath of a British victory during World War 2.

Signing the Act of Chapultepec, Mexico (1945)

Extract from World in Action: America Talking - Anti-war demonstrators converge on Washington DC (1970)

Screener: History in Action - One False Step

AUSTRALIAN & OVERSEAS WAR VETERANS RETURN TO NORTHERN FRANCE TO COMMEMORATE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY LANDING IN NORMANDY

D Day preview from Omaha Beach

Atomic bomb damage sustained by war plants in Nagasaki.

Long line of German prisoners march under US guard.

Screener World In Action: An Island at War

Food and supplies are transported via truck from Aachen to refugee camp during WW2.

The Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice inspect the assembly line of a war plant in Seattle.

Nazis load mortars and other large artillery, firing on Warsaw in the siege of the city.

Wartime Nurses War Bonds

PHILLIP ELGER RE HIS EXPERIENCE AS WIRELESS OPERATOR ON LANCASTER BOMBER FLYING DIVERSIONARY MISSIONS TO DRAW ENEMY FIRE ON D-DAY

Little girls in kimonos hold a tea ceremony with their dolls in Tokyo.

First part of a newsreel about the bombing of Japan, showing shots of devastated Hiroshima from the air and from the ground, including people walking with umbrellas.

Japanese Zero Fighters

A female war correspondent prepares questions for a survivor of the Dachau concentration camp.

D DAY VETs fly to Normandy to commemorate Day Day 50 years on

Vera Lynn Interview

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

IV STAN LANDS, IV BERNIE NELSON, IV TOM HERBERT, IV BASIL RACHINGER, SHIP ARRIVES CHERBOURG HARBOUR

AUDIO ONLY: INTERVIEW JOHN MARDEN, A LOCAL PORT AUGUSTA MAN, REMEMBERS HIS D-DAY LANDING ON NORMANDY BEACH 50 YEARS AGO TODAY.

FORMER AUSTRALIAN BOMBER CREW MEMBER DENNIS KELLY/DENNIS 'NED' KELLY RETURNS WITH HIS SON TO FRANCE TO THANK FRENCH VILLAGERS WHO SAVED HIS LIFE

NORMANDY RE-UNION

American military officers tour the Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice around various war installations in the Pacific Northwest

D-DAY

A doctor who's been brought to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after its liberation describes the conditions she found in the women's camp

Alfred Rosenberg describes the Nazi Party's rise in 1932 Berlin.

Boys drink tea by an altar holding several figurines in traditional dress in Tokyo.

Exteriors of MGM and Paramount studios include advertisements for war bonds and a roll of honor listing employees who are in the service.

Burma Refugees

ABC MELBOURNE DRIVE PROGRAM

Rules for writing V-Mail are explained.

Einstein and Szilard

THE WORLD TODAY - D Day

Nagasaki Aftermath

LIberated Italian civilians watch as German troops depart Milan during WW2.

Father John Siemes, Hiroshima Witness

Adolf Hitler meets with political figures in Hungary.

Atomic Bomb

Extract from Viewpoint 90 - Ivan the Terrible: A Case of Mistaken Identity?

Coutances Ruins

Utah Beach Supply Ships

ROBERT BIDGRAIN SPEECHES, FLAG GIFT CEREMONY, D-DAY VETERANS BUS TOUR

American Soldiers Train in Panama

Pearl Harbor Attack in Color

D-Day Wounded

Occupation of Germany

WWII Draft

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

A narrator covers a montage favorably comparing industrious Jewish populations to those engaging in more solemn traditions of the past in Israel.

Liberation of France

FRANCE SITU

Liberation of France and Aerial Combat

British soldiers inspect the rubble of the bombed Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany.

The Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice inspect an American aircraft carrier and tank

SMYTH HONOUR

JOHN RITCHIE IS A VETERAN OF WWII D-DAY AND THIS YEAR MARKS THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY

The atomic bomb explodes in Nagasaki, Japan

A mushroom cloud rises from the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

Black Soldiers 1940s-1950s

Liberation of France

Atomic bomb damage sustained by a Mitsubishi factory and other defense plants in Nagasaki.

Army Nurses

Women operate the air draft machines which put V-Mail onto microfilm. Men develop the film and load mail bags.

Nurses at North African Field Hospital / British Invasion of Sicily

The Future Project 2025: Sandra talks on Stephen Graham, Years and Years, Far right and racism

Piles of confiscated dentures, razors, brushes and eyeglasses at Auschwitz.

Horse-drawn carriages are driven past lakes in Tokyo.

D-Day Invasion

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY CEREMONY IN TROARN, SAINT-SAMSON GRAVEYARD

Workers on a pier in New York Harbor prepare for the docking of an American Export Lines ship.

Pedestrians cross the street in front of Marseille harbor front. United States Army trucks are seen parked in the waterfront area.

Nazi flags hang from buildings in occupied Warsaw, Poland.

Japan Invasion Preparation

WACs in Algiers

Men and women process incoming V-Mail at a military outpost, enlarging the microfilm and cutting the letters.

Adolf Hitler looks through a periscope to watch the damage done by Nazis shelling Warsaw, now a burning city.

Alfred Rosenberg describes the early Nazi struggle for power.

British soldiers inspect the rubble of the bombed Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany.

WASPS

V-Mail is processed and sorted

Liberation of France

The British Army helps put Emperor Selassie back in power of Ethiopia, chasing out Italian forces.

A female doctor who's been brought to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp explains that Nazis performed medical experiments on prisoners there