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An excerpt from a longer documentary film on the young life of Queen Elizabeth II: her childhood during wartime, her courtship and marriage to Phillip and subsequent maternity.

I don’t want to ruin anything for you -but the part of “Barnacle Bill”is played by Brutus.

Produced in 1943, during the height of World War II, this is a rare one where Popeye and his ol’ nemesis Brutus team-up to kick some serious Axis keister. Tojo, Adolf and Goering are all present when he opens the can.

The first episode of Popeye.

Produced one year after Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight, Mickey Mouse and the whole country went ‘plane crazy’.

A dramatic recreation of Picket’s Charge from the film, “Gettysburg”.

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Images of early Twentieth Century Paris set to the music of Erik Satie.

The Panzerfaust (“tank fist”) was an inexpensive, recoilless German anti-tank weapon of World War II. It consisted of a small, disposable preloaded launch tube firing a high explosive anti-tank warhead, operated by a single soldier. The Panzerfaust was developed from the earlier Faustpatrone and remained in service in various versions until the end of the war. The Panzerfaust 150 variant was the basis for the development of the Soviet RPG-2 which later evolved into the RPG-7.

On December 12, 1937, the Japanese attacked and sunk an American gunboat on the Yangtze River in China.

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A wonderful early entry in Max Fleischer’s “Out Of The Inkwell” series featuring Ko Ko the Clown. The combination of cartoon animation and live action is every bit as impressive today as it was when this film was first released 86 years ago.

Beautiful colorized images of the doomed Romanov family.

Operation Barbarossa (German: ”Unternehmen Barbarossa”) was the codename for Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on June 22, 1941. The operation was named after the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa of the Holy Roman Empire, a leader of the Crusades in the 12th century. It is not to be confused with the war on the Eastern Front in its entirety.

A segment from a History Channel documentary about the last battle of World War II: the Battle of Okinawa.Beautiful color.

Combat footage. Die Deutsche Wochenschau.6th June 1944, Normandy invasion from German perspective.As late as 13:35 the German 352nd division was reporting that the assault had been hurled back into the sea. From their vantage point at Pointe de la Percée overlooking the whole of the beach from the western end the German perception was that the assault had been stopped at the beach. An officer there noted that troops were seeking cover behind obstacles and counted ten tanks burning. However, as early as 07:35 the third battalion 726th Grenadier Regiment, defending Draw F-1 on Fox Green beach, was reporting that 100–200 American troops had penetrated its front, with enemy inside the wire at WN-62 and WN-61 under attack from the rear.

On 22 October 1955, television history was made as CBS broadcast, Live and in Color, TOGETHER WITH MUSIC – a 90 minute musical comedy special starring NOEL COWARD and MARY MARTIN. With no guests, dancers or backup of any kind, the two legendary stars breezed through an incredibly accomplished program of songs and sketches. For years available only as a rare soundtrack LP, here at last is the original hi-fi album CD audio, synced to the B&W kinescope of this historic broadcast. Noel Coward (fresh from his triumph in Las Vegas) performs a stunning rendition of his signature tune, MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN.

Nicholas II speaks from the balcony of the Winter Palace to a huge crowd in Palace Square.