The Douglas Boston aircraft (A-20 Havoc) was a highly effective light bomber/light attack aircraft. It was powered by a pair of Wright Cyclone 2600 supercharged engines developing 1600 horsepower. These gave the Boston an impressive top speed of 260 knots.
German Zeppelin attacks russian positions.This episode from the Russian historical detective mini series.”The Fall of the Empire” (Gibel imperii) (2005) (mini)Directed by Vladimir Khotinenko.This movie about fight of Military Counterintelligence of Russian empire against the German espionage during the First World War (ww1).
Here is a song by the beautiful and recently deceased Yvonne De Carlo.Yvonne De Carlo (born Margaret Yvonne Middleton) (1922 – 2007) was a Canadian-born American film and television actress. Cast in “The Ten ,ndments” (1956) in a leading role (as Sephora, Moses’ wife), De Carlo was part of a major hit. The film was a huge success and De Carlo was among those to be praised for her restrained work. However, her most famous role that led her to pop culture legacy is of “Lily Munster” in the cult television series “The Munsters” (1964-1966), which allowed De Carlo to demonstrate a comic flair that her films had failed to utilize. She also played Lily in the 1966 feature film “Munster, Go Home” and the 1981 TV movie “The Munsters’ Revenge”. For her contribution to the motion picture industry and for her contribution to television, Yvonne De Carlo was honored with 2 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
A segment of a longer documentary, filmed in color and concentrating on the G.I.s in Europe.
This 1943 newsreel was made by the U.S. War Relocation Authority (WRA) and it is narrated by Milton Eisenhower, head of that agency. The WRA was responsible for implementing the mass removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans from the West Coast.
January 30th 2008 is the 60th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. Here Resurgence editor and ecologist Satish Kumar emphasises the importance and relevance of Gandhi’s message of non-violence in the 21st Century.
Televised Campaign Address for Goldwater Presidential Campaign – 10/27/64.
Tribute is paid to the original vamp in this selection of images of the silent film star Theda Bara set to some pleasing, non-descript music.
Witch’s cradle (1943), unfinished work by Maya Deren with Marcel Duchamp. Remember First Papers of Surrealism: same threats, same desires.
An army is as good as the kit its soldiers use. In 1914, which army was the best equipped? Historian Dan Snow finds out.
In this short film released on April 6, 1919 Harold plays a U.S. soldier in Russia.
Amazing!! This film was made long before special-effects photography and I’m sure you will be impressed by the bravery of this barnstorming lass in her equestrian attire.
Silent footage from 1913 of the Suffragette Emily Davidson throwing herself under the Kings horse at the Epsom Derby, England.
George Grosz (1893 – 1959) was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group, known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s. This is a slide show of those rebellious paintings.
