During WWII, the U.S. Government produced a number of newsreels depicting Allied military operations in various theatres of war and events taking place in the U.S. home front. Typically 10 minutes long, these counter-propaganda newsreels were shown in U.S. movie theaters, distributed in friendly and neutral countries and dropped behind German lines. Browse the United Newsreel Motion Pictures below.
Source Information
Ancestry.com. WWII ‘United News’ Newsreels, 1942-1946 [database on-line].
Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Original data: Motion
Picture Films from “United News” Newsreels, 1942-1945; Office for Emergency
Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York
Office. News and Features Bureau (12/17/1942-09/15/1945); Records of the Office
of War Information, 1926-1951, Record Group 208; National Archives at College
Park, College Park, MD.
