CIA Archives: Lie Detector - Use of Polygraph Tests and Police Methodology (1954)

This film discusses the use of polygraphs, what the test measures, and how it fits into police methodology.

CIA Archives: Leo Tolstoy Biography (1970)

This film biography about Leo Tolstoy is a remembrance by his daughter, using literature and drama.

CIA Archives: Haiphong Harbor - Anti-Aircraft Equipment in North Vietnam (1966)

This film shows ships unloading anti-aircraft equipment at Haiphong harbor in North Vietnam.

CIA Archives: American Germ Warfare in the Korean War

Santa Fe Trail: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan (1940 Movie)

Santa Fe Trail is a 1940 western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. The film was one of the top-grossing films of the year, being the seventh Flynn-de Havilland collaboration. The film also has nothing to do with its namesake, the famed Santa Fe Trail, except that the trail started in Missouri. Instead, it follows the life of J.E.B. Stuart, a cavalry commander (and future Confederate Army general).

The outdoor scenes were filmed at the Lasky Movie Ranch in the Lasky Mesa area of the Simi Hills in the western San Fernando Valley. One can visit the film location site, now in the very large Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve (a.k.a. Ahmanson Ranch), with various trails to the Lasky Mesa locale.

Cast:

Errol Flynn as James "Jeb" Stuart
Olivia de Havilland as Kit Carson Holliday
Raymond Massey as John Brown
Ronald Reagan as George Armstrong Custer
Alan Hale as Tex Bell
William Lundigan as Bob Holliday
Van Heflin as Carl Rader
Gene Reynolds as Jason Brown
Henry O'Neill as Cyrus K. Holliday
Guinn Williams as Windy Brody
Alan Baxter as Oliver Brown
Moroni Olsen as Robert E. Lee
Erville Alderson as Jefferson Davis

Sabotage: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder (1936 Movie)

Sabotage, also released as The Woman Alone, is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is based on Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent. It should not be confused with Hitchcock's film Secret Agent released the same year, or his 1942 film Saboteur.

Cast:

Sylvia Sidney as Mrs Verloc
Oskar Homolka as Karl Anton Verloc
Desmond Tester as Steve
John Loder as Sergeant Ted Spencer
Joyce Barbour as Renee
Matthew Boulton as Superintendent Talbot
S.J. Warmington as Hollingshead
William Dewhurst as The Professor
Charles Hawtrey as a Studious Youth
Peter Bull as Michaelis (uncredited)

Randy Rides Alone: John Wayne, Alberta Vaughn, George 'Gabby' Hayes (1934 Movie)

Randy Rides Alone is a Western movie made in 1934. The 53-minute black-and-white film was directed by Harry Fraser.

Cast:

John Wayne - Randy Bowers
Alberta Vaughn - Sally Rogers
George 'Gabby' Hayes - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
Yakima Canutt - Henchman Spike
Earl Dwire - Sheriff
Artie Ortego - Deputy Al
Tex Phelps - Deputy
Horace B. Carpenter - Ed Rogers (uncredited)
Tommy Coats - Kidnapper Joe (uncredited)
Mack V. Wright - deputy (uncredited)

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Soldiers: WW2 Treatment Documentary - Let There Be Light (1948)

Let There Be Light is a 1946 American documentary film directed by John Huston.

The film, commissioned by the United States Army Signal Corps, was the final entry in a John Huston trilogy of films produced at the request of the U.S. Government. This documentary film follows 75 U.S. soldiers who have sustained debilitating emotional trauma and depression. A series of scenes chronicle their entry into a psychiatric hospital, their treatment and eventual recovery. Some of the treatments involved then-new drugs and hypnosis, and the impression was given of miraculous cures, though the narration says that there will be continuing psychiatric care.

Much of the filming was done at Edgewood State Hospital, Deer Park, Long Island, New York which between 1944 and 1946 was part of Mason General Hospital, a psychiatric hospital run by the United States War Department named for an Army doctor and general.

The film was controversial in its portrayal of shell-shocked soldiers from the war. "Twenty percent of our army casualties", the narrator says, "suffered psychoneurotic symptoms: a sense of impending disaster, hopelessness, fear, and isolation." Apparently due to the potentially demoralizing effects the film might have on recruitment, it was subsequently banned by the Army after its production, although some pirated copies had been made. Military police once confiscated a print Huston was about to show friends at the Museum of Modern Art. The Army claimed it invaded the privacy of the soldiers involved, and the releases Huston had obtained were lost; the War Department refused to get new ones. The release in the 1980s by Secretary of the Army Clifford Alexander, Jr. was attributed to his friend Jack Valenti who worked to get the ban lifted. The United States Archives now sells and rents copies of the film, and as a government work it is freely copied.

The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2010, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

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My Favorite Brunette: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney Jr. (1947 Movie)

My Favorite Brunette is a 1947 movie spoofing movie detectives and the film noir style. Starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, it also features Lon Chaney, Jr. playing Willie, a character based on his Of Mice and Men role Lennie; Peter Lorre as Kismit, a comic take on his many film noir roles; and cameo appearances by film noir regular Alan Ladd and Hope partner Bing Crosby. Sequences were filmed in San Francisco and Pebble Beach, California.

Featured cast:
Actor / Role
Bob Hope / Ronnie Jackson
Alan Ladd / Sam McCloud
Dorothy Lamour / Baroness Carlotta Montay
Frank Puglia / Baron Montay
Peter Lorre / Kismet
Lon Chaney, Jr. / Willie
John Hoyt / Dr. Lundau
Charles Dingle / Major Simon Montague
Reginald Denny / James Collins
Ann Doran / Miss Rogers

CIA Archives: Interview with Zhou Enlai (1965)

Interview with Zhou En Lai in which he discusses the Chinese economy, U.S. relations with Taiwan, and implications of the atomic explosion.

CIA Archives: Soviet Psychological Torture Methods - Former Moscow Prison Inmate (1956)

This film documents the personal experiences of a former Moscow prison inmate, who described the psychological torture methods used to try to extract a confession.

God's Gun (1975 Movie)

God's Gun (also known as Diamante Lobo) is a 1975 Italian / Israeli Spaghetti western directed by Gianfranco Parolini (credited as Frank Kramer) and starring Lee Van Cleef. Jack Palance plays the head of a malicious group of bandits and Van Cleef plays a double-role of brothers: a priest and a reformed gunfighter determined to stop them.

Leif Garrett also plays a vital part in the film, as a fatherless kid who brings the reformed gunfighter to town.

Cast:

Lee Van Cleef as Father John / Lewis
Jack Palance as Sam Clayton
Richard Boone as The Sheriff
Sybil Danning as Jenny
Leif Garrett as Johnny
Robert Lipton as Jess Clayton
Cody Palance as Zeke Clayton
Ian Sander as Red Clayton
Pnina Rosenblum as Chesty
Zila Carni as Juanita Lewis
Heinz Bernard as Judge Barrett
Didi Lukov as Rip
Ricardo David as Angel George
Chin Chin as Willy
Rafi Ben Ami as Mortimer

Gulliver's Travels (1939 Movie)

Gulliver's Travels is a 1939 American cel-animated Technicolor feature film, directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by Max Fleischer. The sequences for the film were directed by Seymour Kneitel, Willard Bowsky, Tom Palmer, Grim Natwick, William Henning, Roland Crandall, Thomas Johnson, Robert Leffingwell, Frank Kelling, Winfield Hoskins, and Orestes Calpini.

Cast:

Gulliver - Sam Parker
Gabby - Pinto Colvig
King Little, Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch - Jack Mercer
King Bombo - Tedd Pierce
Princess Glory - Jessica Dragonette
Prince David - Lanny Ross

First Spaceship on Venus (1960)

First Spaceship on Venus, German: Der schweigende Stern (en: The Silent Star), Polish: Milcząca Gwiazda, is a 1960 East German/Polish film directed by Kurt Maetzig and based on the novel The Astronauts by Stanisław Lem. The film is also known as Planet of the Dead, Silent Star and Spaceship Venus Does Not Reply.

Cast:

Yoko Tani as Japanese female doctor / Sumiko Ogimura MD
Oldrich Lukes as American nuclear physicist / Prof. Harringway Hawling
Ignacy Machowski as Polish chief engineer / Prof. Saltyk / Prof. Durand
Julius Ongewe as African TV technician / Talua
Michail N. Postnikow as Soviet Astronaut / Prof. Arsenew / Orloff
Kurt Rackelmann as Indian mathematician / Prof. Sikarna
Günther Simon as German pilot / Robert / Raimund Brinkmann
Tang Hua-Ta as Chinese linguist / Dr. Tchen Yu / Lao Tsu
Lucyna Winnicka as TV reporter / Joan Moran (as Lucina Winnicka)

Drums in the Deep South (1951)

Drums in the Deep South is an American Civil War war film designed and directed by William Cameron Menzies.

Cast:

James Craig as Maj. Clay Clayburn
Barbara Payton as Kathy Summers
Guy Madison as Maj. Will Denning
Barton MacLane as Sgt. Mac McCardle
Robert Osterloh as Sgt. Harper
Tom Fadden as Purdy
Robert Easton as Jerry
Louis Jean Heydt as Col. House
Craig Stevens as Col. Braxton Summers
Taylor Holmes as Albert Monroe
Lewis Martin as Gen. Johnston
Peter Brocco as Union corporal
Dan White as Corp. Jennings

Unbilled players:

Robert Clarke: Union officer
Kenne Duncan: Union Officer
Roy Gordon: Lt. Col. Fitzgerald
James Griffith: Union officer who reports to Maj. Denning
Myron Healey: Union lieutenant
Todd Karns: Union captain
Norman Leavitt: Confederate soldier
Frank Marlowe: Confederate soldier
Tom Monroe: Confederate soldier
Billy Nelson: Union sergeant
Steve Pendleton: Capt. Travis
Denver Pyle: Union soldier who breaks the window
Mickey Simpson: Jim Burns, Confederate soldier
Ray Walker: Union officer
Guy Wilkerson: Confederate sentry

Dressed to Kill (1946)

Dressed to Kill (also known as Prelude to Murder or Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Code in the UK), is the last of fourteen films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.

Though not directly based on any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes stories, the film features several references to "A Scandal in Bohemia," with Holmes and Watson discussing the recent publication of the story in The Strand Magazine, and the villain of the film using the same trick on Watson that Holmes uses on Irene Adler in the story. The plot also bears some resemblance to "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons."

Cast:

Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce as Dr. John H. Watson
Patricia Morison as Mrs. Hilda Courtney
Edmund Breon as 'Stinky' Emery (as Edmond Breon)
Frederick Worlock as Colonel Cavanaugh (as Frederic Worlock)
Carl Harbord as Inspector Hopkins
Patricia Cameron as Evelyn Clifford
Holmes Herbert as Ebenezer Crabtree
Harry Cording as Hamid
Leyland Hodgson as Tour guide
Mary Gordon as Mrs. Hudson
Ian Wolfe as Commissioner of Scotland Yard

Dark Journey (1937)

Dark Journey is a 1937 British spy film directed by Victor Saville set in the First World War. Its plot concerns two secret agents on opposite sides, played by Conrad Veidt and Vivien Leigh, who fall in love.

Safety: In Danger Out of Doors (1978)

San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath (1906)

Scenes from an early newsreel of the fire and earthquake destruction of San Francisco in 1906.

Alcohol Trigger Films for Junior High School: The Party, The Mother, The Ride (1979)

Three short dramatic, open-ended situations designed to provoke discussion in alcohol education programs. Includes "The Party," in which a new boy wants to make friends and offers his house for a party while his parents are away; "The Mother," in which an intoxicated mother picks up her daughter and a friend at a shopping mall and then embarrasses the daughter in front of a boy; and "The Ride," in which younger students are offered drinks by older friends and then invited to go for a ride.

Alcohol Is Dynamite (1958)

Teenagers Bud and Jack, eager to get some alcohol from the liquor store, ask the adult to buy it for them. Instead, the adult tells them a story of three teenagers who learn the hard way that "alcohol is a violent narcotic." In true Sid Davis form, the story ends with one innocent teen being killed and one who becomes an alcoholic bum, leaving the others to deal with guilt from their night of reckless abandon.

Alaska: A Modern Frontier - Documentary Film (1948)

Views of the Territory of Alaska.

How Missile Guidance Systems Work: A Missile Named Mac (1962)

Let's Share With Others (1950)

A kid-centered pitch for fair play and thoughtfulness.

Let's Play Fair: Educational Film for Children (1949)

Sharing, taking turns and obeying rules are the basic elements of fair play.

A Trip to the Moon / Le voyage dans la lune (1902 Film)

A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la lune) is a 1902 French black-and-white silent science fiction film. It is based loosely on two popular novels of the time: Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon.

The film was written and directed by Georges Méliès, assisted by his brother Gaston. The film runs 14 minutes if projected at 16 frames per second, which was the standard frame rate at the time the film was produced. It was extremely popular at the time of its release, and is the best-known of the hundreds of fantasy films made by Méliès. A Trip to the Moon is the first science fiction film, and uses innovative animation and special effects, including the well-known image of the spaceship landing in the Moon's eye.

It was named one of the 100 greatest films of the 20th century by The Village Voice, ranking at #84.

Law and Social Controls: Morals, Laws and Conformity in Parenting Theory Video (1949)

Uses the story of teens trying to extend the hours of their "Teen Canteen" as a vehicle for explaining customs, moral codes, and laws.

Made for Each Other (1939)

Made for Each Other is a 1939 drama film directed by John Cromwell and produced by David O. Selznick. It stars Carole Lombard and James Stewart as a couple who get married after only knowing each other very briefly.

Cast:

Carole Lombard as Jane Mason
James Stewart as John Horace Mason
Charles Coburn as Judge Joseph M. Doolittle
Lucile Watson as Mrs. Harriet Mason, John Mason's mother
Alma Kruger as Sister Madeline

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Clampetts Meet Mrs. Drysdale - Season 1, Episode 4 (1962)