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Conquer by the Clock was a short dramatic propaganda film produced by the RKO Pathé in 1942 to encourage wartime industrial production. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1943.

Tuesday in November was a propaganda short about the 1944 United States presidential election produced by the Office of War information for overseas distribution. It is meant to explain how the democratic process in America works.

Operation Vittles is a 1948 American short documentary film about the Berlin Airlift. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Filmed on location, The Big Lift is a reenactment of the Berlin airlift of 1948. Flexing their postwar muscles, the Russians blockade the Western sector, refusing to allow the Allies to ship supplies to the starving Berliners. From their headquarters at Templehof Airport, a group of courageous American flyers risk their lives to transport supplies by air.

The Crime of Korea was a 1950 propaganda film produced by the US Army Signal Corps mainly concerning the war crimes committed by the North Koreans.

This iconic film short was produced by the US Government to teach school aged children what to do in the event of a nuclear attack.

Illustrates the basic methods by which each child can best protect himself and others from the effects of an atomic bomb explosion, whether he is at home, at school, or on the street. An introduction presents a simplified explanation of nuclear fission

A newspaper has been flooded with letters against an editorial published that states that citizens should not abandon one's cities in case of an enemy attack, nuclear or otherwise. The editor and a reporter have to come up with a way to make their readers understand why they shouldn't abandon their cities, both on a practical level for the chaos that would ensue and it being the safest place, and a pure military level in cities being the backbone of winning any war.

Created by the U.S. Government, Survival Under Atomic Attack explains the dangers of the atomic bomb, the effects of radiation and how to protect oneself if caught in the open or in the home. The film was made in the era before the hydrogen bomb made nuclear survival impossible. Survival Under Atomic Attack was also the title of an official United States government booklet released by the Civil Defense Office

The history of communism told from a very Cold War perspective, attempting to explain to the target audience of American schoolchildren and teens why is it such a threat for worldwide freedom and the United States in particular, and why the inversions of millions of dollars in defense weaponry, and tax increments for that purpose, are justified. A Coronet film.

Cold War propaganda short explaining how capitalism guarantees America's freedoms.

A compilation of various clips from the UPI and Warner Pathé newsreels regarding the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

This newsreel clip announces the launch of the Soviet Sputnik, the first artificial satellite launched into Earth orbit.

Portrays a simulated evacuation of Portland, Oregon, when threatened by a nuclear attack on its state-of-the-art civil defense system.

From the heights of the cold war, this short focuses on American youth at play and in the home and how the television can be a great educational device. In this case warning of the dangers of Communism. The home television features as part of the bulwark protecting the children and guiding them towards the principles of a democratic society.

This episode of NBC White Paper from 1964 describes the events of the ill fated Bay of Pigs invasion. The effort was an attempt by Cuban exiles to retake the island from the Castro regime.

Universal Newsreel coverage of President Kennedys speech regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.

A government film about the construction of the Berlin Wall and its effect on the people of the city.

A man takes his American freedoms for granted, until he wakes up one morning to find out that the United States Government has been replaced with a Communist system. The basis for this short film, narrated by Jack Webb, is the alleged Soviet re-creation of US communities for the purpose of training infiltrators, spies, and moles.

In Red China, host Chet Huntley traces the consolidation of power by Mao Tse-tung and China's Communist Party. This was an episode of the NBC White Paper series.

Cold War-era anti-Chinese propaganda film featuring footage of revolutionary activities and combat, 1921-1964.