Video Library

We will continue to add to this collection consisting of short film clips, primarily in black and white, documenting Allied operations and activities during WWII. In addition to footage of campaigns in Europe and in the Pacific, the films document activities on the Allied homefront. Every effort has been made to ensure these film clips are in the public domain. If you discover any to not be, please contact us and they will be removed immediately.

 
 
 

Description

The films above contain a number of collections. They are described here to provide better understanding of what you are viewing. Additionally, as Allied and Soviet troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they encountered concentration camps, mass graves, and numerous other sites of Nazi crimes. Please note that the haunting black-and-white Concentration Camp footage reveals the horrors humans can inflict upon each other in the name of ideology. Most are shocking and disturbing. These film contains extremely graphic scenes of human suffering. Please exercise caution when viewing.

WW2 in Color

On the Battlefront and the Homefront, the cameras caught the action in color in this series of five videos.

Documenting the Path of American Liberators

Part 1: Invading Fortress Europe

  • D-Day (June 1944)
  • 167th Arrives in France (September 1944)
  • Huertgen Forest (October - December 1944)
  • Liberated Paris (November 1944)
  • Battle of the Bulge (December 1944 - January 1945)

Part 2: Defeat of the Third Reich

  • Remagen/Crossing the Rhine (March 1945)
  • The Drive into Germany (April 1945)
  • 167th and the Wehrmacht (March - April 1945)
  • Massacre at Leipzig (April 1945)

Part 3: Defeat of the Third Reich and The End of the War

  • Nuremberg (Late April 1945)
  • Collapse of the Wehrmacht (April - May 1945)
  • Liberation of Forced/Slave Laborers (Fall 1944 - Summer 1945)
  • Liberation of Polish POWs (April 1945)

Part 4: The End of the War

  • Liberation of Allied POWs (May 1945)
  • Lenzing Concentration Camp (May 1945)
  • Ebensee Concenration Camp (May 1945)
  • The War Ends/Allies Reunion (May 1945)

Invasion of Southern France

With allied victories in Italy, the tide of the war has continued to turn against the Axis Powers. The time has come for the Allies to break into France and push the Germans back to their own border. This 3 part series highlights the war as it now moves into the resort towns of Southern France. The French Riveria.