News & Current Issues

a collection of complete newsreels and newsreel excerpts from the heyday of the theatrical newsreel in the 1930′s, 1940′s and 1950′s. If you’d like to see more of this collection, take a look at their Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/newsreelarchive)

a collaboration between the University of South Carolina and the Library of Congress, provides online access for the first time to over two hundred Fox Movietone News newsreels released in American theaters from September 1942 through August 1944. Before the era of television news broadcasts, newsreels were shown in theaters across the country to inform and entertain audiences. During the war, two newsreels per week were released by each of the five major American newsreel companies (Fox Movietone News, Universal News, Hearst News of the Day, Paramount News, and Pathé News).

considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world and is a treasure trove of 85,000 films unrivalled in their historical and cultural significance. Spanning the years from 1896 to 1976, the collection includes footage from around the globe of major events, famous faces, fashion trends, travel, science and culture.

video library shows the work of the Marine Corps from the early 20th century through to the 1980s