Most Viewed Year 1945 - 78

Entitled "Panorama Musical" it is a musical short from Celia Films, directed by Louis Cuny illustrating music from its beginnings up to the present...

Footage showing the Japanese signing their final surrender.

Air views of Leipzig reveal it to be a city of skeleton buildings and rubble. Industrial Magdeburg has been gutted by dive bombers of the U.S....

Documentary about the 1944 landing of British, Norwegian and Belgian commandos on the German-occupied island of Walcheren, The Netherlands.

On the OSS Operational Group's assistance in helping to organize and coordinate partisan activities in Italy during World War II. Describes the...

Promotional film demonstrating the importance of newspapers in everyday life. Set during the citywide strike of newspaper delivery truck drivers in...

A look at the manufacture of optical lenses, and their many uses throughout the different industries; from microscopes to spectacles to full use in...

Five popular songs with animated backgrounds, sung by the Four Gentlemen Quartet: I Got a Robe, Men of the Soil, Frère Jacques, Oh, No John,...

A group of old-time favourite sing-along songs is presented. Included are Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet and The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze.

Stan Kenton and His Orchestra with June Christy perform "It's Been a Long Long Time".

"Whoever cheats the state cheats his fellows" - the hunt for a tax cheater. Sir. Middelmand, a former tax cutter, is the protagonist of a moral drama...

It's the end of WWII. Many Canadian military men are returning back to Canada to resume a working life as a civilian. Seven percent will work in the...

A short documentary detailing the development of television as well as describing promises regarding its presence in postwar America.

Goliat Svensson falls asleep and dreams that he is a great football player, who takes the victory for the Swedish national team.

Action at Angaur is a 1945 short documentary film created by the United States War Department during World War II. The film was created for the 7th...

A compilation of early auto racing clips.

Post-WWII documentary short detailing some of the ethnic groups of the Philippines and their customs.

On April 13, 1945, in the dramatic final months of the Second World War, the Red Army liberated Vienna from German occupation following a two-week...

New mothers are show how to care for young infants during nursing and as they grow and their diet changes from liquid to solid foods.

Part of BFI collection "On Yer Bike."