Westbrook Van Voorhis

On July 10, 1936, the Time Corporation released the seventh episode of the second year of its newsreel series The March of Time, which included a...

Covers the American planning and execution of the great Allied Military Manoeuvre in North Africa.

An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie...

1950's television documentary special that includes interviews with Hitler's sister Paula Wolf and a fellow prisoner who was incarcerated with...

After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which...

The history of the Corps, from Colonial times to the present day (1942, that is). The film's midsection details the arduous training procedure of the...

Documentary short film reporting on the activities of the American Red Cross and the useage made of contributed funds for the previous year. ...

Part of the March of Time series, this episode (Volume 12, Number 2) focuses entirely on the beauty industry in the USA. With spending of over $1...

Atomic Power! is an American short documentary film produced by The March of Time and released to theaters August 9, 1946, one year after the end of...

A successful invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe depended on intelligence from behind enemy lines. This report uses a mixture of dramatized...

From the ruins of Monte Cassino to the malarial swamps of the Pontine Marshes, this newsreel depicts the full extent of Italy’s devastation in...

Part of the March of Time series, this episode (Volume 11, Number 11) focuses on a new sociological phenomenon - the teen-age girl. She is recognized...

A sweeping survey of General de Gaulle’s Free France government-in-exile and the French underground resistance movement. From bold acts of sabotage...

Life during wartime for Sweden meant a carefully balanced neutrality in order to avoid the fate of Norway. This newsreel explains the concessions...

As America puts pressure on Ireland to suspend diplomatic relations with the Axis powers, this film offers a nuanced and heartfelt defence of Irish...

Postwar Farms (MARCH OF TIME) will interest not only farmers but also those numerous urbanites who wonder wistfully how they might make out on five...

Justice or revenge? As Allied tanks rolled across Europe in October 1944, clearly in no mood for reconciliation or forgiveness, this film demands...

Tells the story of how the 8th American Air force’s daylight bombing raids on Germany helped the Allies to win control over the skies of Europe....

Where’s the Meat tells in considerable detail where it is, where it isn’t and why it won’t be. There are glimpses of black markets and worried...

Fashion Means Business (MARCH OF TIME) compactly investigates that heavy, nervous industry which whets woman's desire to improve, with various...

The Teachers’ Crisis (MARCH OF TIME) puts the pointer on one of the biggest U.S. problems—education. By narrative, charts and acted episodes, the...

Eager science students, devout peasants, tough farm workers and hungry families: this film offered a rare chance for viewers to see the human face of...

The Italian Communist Party in 1948: a force for progress and reform or the last refuge of a desperate population and a threat to the rest of Europe?

Ventures beyond the Copacabana beach to explain how Brazil – rich in minerals, oil and rubber and strategically vital for access to Africa, and at...

This March of Time newsreel describes the organizing of the Croix de Feu, "Crosses of Fire," and the events of February 6th, 1934 in Paris, an...

Using documentary footage, re-enactments, newsreels, diagrams and animation, narrator Westbrook Van Voorhis details how to react to news of an atomic...

Tembo is a 1951 American documentary film which follows the travels of hunter Howard Hill through equatorial Africa.

The U.S. looks for lessons in the Spanish Civil War as it prepares for future conflicts