National Archives and Records Service.
Pub. Date
[2012], c2009
Language
English
Description
This historical newsreel, hosted and narrated by Dennis James, contains three segments. The first profiles the exploits of Mildred Ella ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias, a woman considered the greatest female athlete of her time. The second segment on the Prohibition Era contains footage of Charleston dancers, famous speakeasy operator "Texas" Guinan, singer Al Jolson, President Warren G. Harding playing a tuba, President Calvin Coolidge wearing a Native...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series covers the 34th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade and medical evacuation in Europe. The Big Brigade is shown crossing the Rhine River and deploying in predetermined defense positions, as well as firing live ammunition side by side with British NATO allies and other American units. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration also shows a simulation of medical...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series focuses on the education of its ranks. From its inception, the Army has stressed in its training those qualities which make a man a good soldier: courage, perseverance, discipline. But in a broadening era of science and discovery, when increasing demands are made on the citizen's ability simply to understand the facts that dominate his life, the bearing of arms also becomes...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series portrays the strenuous six-day, 80-hour training period that the replacement soldier receives in Vietnam. This training is designed to supplement the soldier's stateside training with more specific training that reflects the climate and terrain conditions in which he eventually fights. This digitally remastered version may reveal limitations of the technology available at the...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series presents enemy propaganda and its danger to the American way of life. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration is set in an exhibit room containing examples of media such as pamphlets, posters, broadcasts, and photographs, which were used by the enemy to disseminate propaganda. A member of the Office of Special Warfare, whose job it is to recognize propaganda,...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The Armor Team of the United States Army is the focus of this episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration tracks the history of this team from the early war chariot of four thousand years ago to the modern tank in today's Army. Viewers will watch as the Armor Team moves over terrain, reaches deep into the heart of the enemy's forces, and destroys pockets of resistance....
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Renowned entertainer Bob Hope narrates this classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration shows the training and readiness of the citizen-soldiers of the National Guard, a major part of the nation's strength in reserve.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series visits Boys Town, U.S.A., just outside Omaha, Nebraska, and shows viewers how the model town gives troubled boys the tools they will need for success in life. It brings viewers the story of how our Army made it possible for young men of draft-age to prepare for their military obligations. Founded by the late Father Edward J. Flanagan, Boys Town youngsters have joined the 353rd...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series shows the power of the individual serviceman who, with the international comradeship he has cemented with his foreign allies while stationed overseas, has become of the nation's best weapons. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration will take viewers to a baseball game, a Sunday dinner, and to visit an orphanage to show that artificial barriers cannot stop immeasurable...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Highlights of this classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series are courtroom sequences staged by the Army to teach soldiers the essential features of the Uniform Code of Justice and the Courts-Martial. The program explains how the Army's laws came into being, who made them, and who continues to make them. Actors show the different consequences of misconduct in civilian and military life.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series delves into the significant role the rifle has played in helping our great country fight for and maintain its freedom. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration, narrated by Craig Stevens of Peter Gunn fame, offers a moving insight into the history of the rifle and the part it has played in our nation's development.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Some walk, some ride, some are born on the way, and many others will die along the "Road to the Wall." This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series shows the struggle many make on their journey to escape Communism's hold on Europe, the Soviet Union, and Cuba. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration tells the startling and ominous history of Soviet Communism and its increase during the past half...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In this classic episode produced by the U.S. Army for The Big Picture series, television audiences have an inside look at the Army's latest methods used in character guidance instruction. Using open ended films, a problem is presented to the soldier on an ethical subject which plays, or might someday play, an important part in his life. Featuring footage provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, the films are purposely left unresolved...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series documents how Strike Command acted as the nation's means of focusing U.S. military power in a hurry to deal successfully with specific emergencies wherever and whenever they occurred. Headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base on the west coast of Florida, this Command supervised the strategic reserve of combat units of the continental Army command and the combat squadrons of the...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series focuses on the large-scale joint Army-Air Force training exercise in the United States. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration explains that the objectives of the exercise were to test initiation of tactical nuclear warfare, control of escalation, and tactical operating on the nuclear battlefield.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In this classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series, cameras show civic action at work in Latin and South America with assistance offered by members of the U.S. Army. Featuring footage provided by the National Archives Records and Administration, this documentary look at road-building, medical help, and education for the masses as they happened. This digitally remastered version may reveal limitations of the technology available...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series focuses on a non commissioned officer academy in Germany and on the Berlin Horse Platoon. In theory and in practice, the NCO guides his men, tests them, and often has their safety in his hands. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration also showcases the Berlin Horse Platoon, a Military Police attachment that has been viewed by thousands of Berliners and...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Produced by the U.S. Army, this historical recording in The Big Picture series covers training and activity of "The Chaplain School" at Fort Slocum in New York. This is the only school of its kind in the world where "Soldiers of God" train and prepare themselves for a spiritual mission to answer to the religious and moral needs of men in the U.S. Army. Footage by the National Archives and Records Administration captures scenes of combat as men fight...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
What is an Infantryman? For two centuries he has been in the bulwark of our country's defense. From the hardships at Valley Forge, to the 38th Parallel of Korea, the Infantryman has been a fighter and a man of courage unafraid to meet the enemy head-on in hand-to-hand combat. The Infantryman is trained to be resourceful, aggressive, and self-reliant at the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia. Featuring footage from the National Archives and Records...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series examines the Army Quartermaster Corps research and engineering program, designed to meet the problems posed by modern warfare. Shown in this video from the National Archives and Records Administration is space age chicken dinner and fruit dessert which tomorrow's spaceman will eat by squeezing it out like toothpaste into his space helmet. The products of Quartermaster research are designed...