Movies: News

With over 300 million firearms, the U.S. holds the highest rate of gun ownership per capita in the world. Meanwhile, with each gun-related tragedy, the question remains whether to regulate or to arm. Increasing demand, illegal distribution and emergi...

For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential source of information – and misinformation – for generations of American moviegoers. Television news ...

"Showing the gallant Admiral standing directly in front of the camera, life size, his head bare, graciously bidding his guests adieu. This was exhibited at the Eden Musee and Koster and Bial's, New York, to 18,000 people the next day after the pictur...

George Dewey was an admiral in the U.S. Navy who is best remembered for his victory at Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War, which he won without the death of a single person in the battle. Needless to say since he was a big hero in this countr...

After lunch, David must confess the news to his parents. What he still doesn't know is the impact it will have in them....

Newsreel on the end of Prohibition....

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Showing Committee of Arrangements visit to the Admiral on board the U.S. Cruiser Olympia....

The press needs a new idol to worship every fifteen minutes. If you play your cards right, it could be you!...

In recent decades, humans have lost 25 to 40 percent of the world's corals due to seawater temperature rise and ocean acidification. Dr David Vaughan has been studying corals his whole life, but until eight years ago, could only watch the crisis unfo...

The warping lens used to photograph 10th Avenue seems to puzzle the filmmakers....

A Hearst Metrotone News reel....