https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/dc6e9e3d-e8af-4526-ae74-b5dfc6a9354d Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This collection of 12 different newsreels dates to 1944-1945. The first film “Men of the Maquis: The Story of the Underground Army of France” tells the story of the French Resistance and features an exclusive personal narrative by the eminent French actress François Rosay. The film opens with the German The Eiffel tower 1:05. The Nazi flag is hoisted 1:16. The Arc de Triomphe 1:30. German soldiers march in the occupied streets of France 1:42. An American press correspondent speaks 2:00. The Nazis manage everything from printing presses to food production 3:05. The underground press is featured 3:25. Underground propaganda poster 4:00. A bombed-out France is shown 4:19. Guerrilla fighters 4:37. Soldiers run operations and field exercises 5:00. Soldiers are reviewed 5:30. Soldiers run exercises in the snow 5:45, field operations in secret 6:30. Soldiers prepare quarters 7:00. The men wash and cook 7:15. The Men of Maquis raise a flag at their camp. End part one. Begin part two. The next film is, “Operations by Bomber and Coastal Command”. The movie opens with an aerial view of fighter planes dropping bombs 8:30. Bombs explode on the ground 8:40. Aircraft prepare to bomb ships 9:15. The title of the next film is “Snapshots in Normandy”, 10:30. This post D-Day film opens with tanks crossing the Churchill Bridge 10:45. Tanks cross the Winston bridge 11:02. A ruined village is razed 11:20. British troops eat 11:48. The next film is “Sobbing Sisters” 12:08, this shows a stunt with a human cannonball. The title of the next film is, “’Reel’ News from Italy” 14:00. The movie opens with a bombed out Italian seaport of Civitavecchia 14:10. Railroad tracks are laid down 14:38. Bomber planes take off from Italy 15:00. P-47 Thunderbolts strafe 15:30. The next film is entitled “Rodney Shells Alderny”. The HMS Rodney goes out to strike the German held Channel Islands 16:16. The men take up battle stations 16:33. The huge battleship turns forward 16:45. The great guns of the ship are loaded 16:55. The Rodney fires 16-inch guns 17:50. Next film, “Fall of Falaise” 18:18. The movie opens with a bombed out Falaise. Troops press on into the town 18:45. Buildings crash to the ground 19:05. Homes, monuments and churches are destroyed 19:23. Highways are bombed out 19:58. Next film is “First Pictures Invasion of Riviera ”, 20:02 and shows the invasion of Southern France. Troops meet topside on the battleship 20:35. 800 battleships are on their way to the Riviera Coast 20:42. Fighter airplanes are flying toward the Riviera 21:15. The Navy ships start firing on the Coast 21:25. Landing craft 21:54. Troops are dropped by parachute 22:00. German soldiers paddle out to a battleship and offer themselves as prisoners 22:28. The Allied troops move inland 23:33 first wave of assault troops come ashore 23:00. Prisoners are captured 23:17. The next film is “It happened in Paris” 23:48. The movie begins in Paris 1942. Gaston Madreux conceals a camera in a wicker basket on the front of his bicycle to film the Gestapo 24:30. Wounded, Germans return from the front 25:37. The Germans hold a ceremony at France’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 26:50. Parisians become upset at the celebration in front of their Arc de Triomphe 27:15. More Gaston Madreux secret films shows us burning factories and other destruction from the war 27:48. German troops on the move out of Paris 28:15. Liberation of Paris. The Eiffel tower is shown 29:00. French flag starts to appear on buildings 29:28. Paris experiences the hour of liberation 29:50. Street fights erupt between the exiting Nazis and French citizens 30:14. Parisians rejoice 31:15. Next film: “9th Army Over the Roer” 31:35. General Simpson’s 9th Army PIs get ready to ford the river Roer 31:48. General Simpson uses smoke and fog to hide his movements 32:23. Large inflatable boats are moved 32:40. Bridges are built across the river 32:58. An aerial bombardment occurs at night 33:36. Next film, “Kings of the East with Premier and President” 33:43. Shows Churchill and Roosevelt meeting in Egypt 33:53. King Farouk of Egypt arrives 34:00. Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia 34:18. The king of Arabia appears in Cairo for talks with world leaders 35:02. Final segment: “Luzon: Swoop on Jap Prison Camp Releases 500”. Invading Allied forces swoop in on Japanese occupied, Luzon 36:12. Soldiers carry a wounded soldier 36:35. Japanese prisoner of war camp is shown 36:55. POWs are interviewed 37:30. Sgt. Robert Bell, POW, is interviewed 37:40. 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