Author Archive: Retro

The fight to secure North Africa is described in this vivid classic documentary

Liberation of Rome (1944) Documentary short film depicting the successful Allied advance into Rome, freeing it from German control during World War II.

Documentary depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima and the massive battle that raged on that key island in the Allied advance on Japan.

Japanese atrocities in the Philippenes during World War II.

Documents a bombing in Germany… how itis planned, executed. Features members of the royal airforce

Actual war footage of German attacks on London during WWII.

Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign (1944-45). He was one of only five men ever to rise to the rank of General of the Army in the US Army, and the only man ever to become a field marshal in the Philippine Army.

Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders.

Victory at Sea began life as a 26-episode television documentary, originally presented on NBC in 1952-1953 as part of their Project 20 series. The program used rare film clips — including captured German and Japanese combat and newsreel footage — to chart the history of WWII, from the outbreak of hostilities in 1939 to VJ (Victory in Japan) Day in 1945. Richard Rodgers composed a special score for the series, which quickly matriculated into a hit LP; one of Rodgers’ leitmotifs was later adapted into “No Other Love” in the Rodgers & Hammerstein Broadway musical Me and Juliet. Victory at Sea won several awards and ran forever in rerun syndication — and, in 1954, was spun off into a theatrical feature. It was up to editor Isaac Kleinerman to distill the 13 hours of the orginal series (culled from 60 million feet of film!) into 97 minutes. The feature version of Victory at Sea was [...]