1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, Londoners sort rubble in their destroyed city after a Luftwaffe blitz (narrated by Walter Huston in 1943).
1940 - Secretary Eden meets with men of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, giving a speech on their ship as they sail into Egypt.
USA - 1940 - African-American men and women teach the piano.
1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, Goering orders Luftwaffe planes to attack the English coast, and RAF planes takeoff to meet them (narrated in 1943).
1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, German soldiers sing as they march through conquered European territory (narrated in 1943).
1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, Adolf Hitler and his staff survey the Eiffel Tower, then drive triumphantly through the ruins of Paris, Dunkirk and Calais (narrated in 1943).
1940 - British troops are seen in action in the Battle of Dunkirk.
1940 - Benito Mussolini decorates men of his Moschettieri, his personal guard, and they pass in review before him and an excited crowd.
1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, British soldiers walk through London and volunteers begin training to join a civilian army (narrated by Walter Huston in 1943).
1940 - Crowds cheer FDR's re-election.
1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, the wreckage of England is shown after the Battle of Britain but morale remains high (narrated in 1943).
1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, Hitler sends Luftwaffe night bombers to attack Coventry, England (narrated by Walter Huston in 1943).
1940 - It snows heavily in New York City, New York, and trees and telephone poles are seen dripping with icicles.
1940 - In this documentary directed by Frank Capra, a musical montage shows the diverse backgrounds of men drafted after the Selective Service Act (narrated by Walter Huston in 1945).
USA - 1940 - African-American theater students make miniature sets in a design class.
1940 - French soldiers patrol the waterfront of the Rhine in wintertime.
USA - 1940 - African-Americans work across myriad fields from science to business.
1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, a montage shows the ways British women are helping the war effort (narrated in 1943).
1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, British civilians decorate Christmas trees at home and in air raid shelters (narrated by Walter Huston in 1943).
1940 - In this documentary directed by Frank Capra, London, England is bombed by the Luftwaffe, prompting Charles Lindbergh and Wendell Willkie to suggest it is perhaps time to aid the British (narrated by Walter Huston in 1945).
1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, British civilians try to sleep in underground air raid shelters while the London fire brigade puts out burning buildings at night (narrated by Walter Huston in 1943).
1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, RAF pilots successfully fend off Luftwaffe planes, and have high morale when they land (narrated by Walter Huston in 1943).
1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, the Luftwaffe bombs British ships in the English Channel (narrated in 1943).
1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, Hitler oversees the takeoff of Luftwaffe fighter planes (narrated in 1943).
1940 - The New York Yankees begin spring training in Florida.
1940 - Luftwaffe planes sink British ships in the Battle of Britain (narrated in 1963).
1940 - Finnish ski troops are seen escorting Russian POWs along a snowy mountain range, seizing their supplies of arms and tanks.
1940 - Italian troops occupy Sidi Barrani, Egypt, but are met by fighting British forces in a surprise attack.
1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, Luftwaffe planes bomb London and two civilian friends are amazed to come out of the air raid unscathed.
1943 - In this Frank Capra documentary, animation is used to show how the Nazis planned to use the Luftwaffe to take Britain.
USA - 1940 - A map shows the increase in schools built for African-Americans across the USA.
1940s - dockworkers use wheelbarrows at a port.
1940 - Civilians in Belgium and Holland run for cover as the Luftwaffe bombs their cities.
1940 - The Tacoma Narrows Bridge sways dangerously during a storm (narrated in 1963).
1940 - The Italian Air Force bombs Africa.
1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, the state of Britain's army, Navy, and Royal Air Force are assessed after the Battle of Dunkirk, where supplies are low but morale is optimistic (narrated by Walter Huston in 1943).
1940 - The Tacoma Narrows Bridge begins to sway prior to its collapse over the Puget Sound in Washington.
The Soviet submarine fleet is blocked in the Gulf of Finland during World War II.
1940 - London burns after night raids by the Luftwaffe (narrated in 1963).
1940 - Children are evacuated from London after Nazi air raids set the city ablaze during the blitz (narrated in 1963).
1940 - Hitler oversees a military parade which includes marching units, armored vehicles, and Luftwaffe planes in flight.
1940 - FDR gives a speech denouncing the Soviet Union.
1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, RAF pilots run to their planes and take off to defend the English Channel from the Luftwaffe (narrated in 1943).
1940 - Winston Churchill visits with firefighters and resilient civilians in the wreckage of London after a Nazi blitz (narrated in 1963).
A tugboat moves along a New York waterway and industrial landscape with a barge.
1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, Luftwaffe planes attack port towns and air fields of Britain without much success (narrated in 1943).
1940 - In this documentary directed by Frank Capra, Hitler and Nazi soldiers are seen riding through occupied France as "The Last Time I Saw Paris" is played.
The Red Army occupies Baltic states, the 10th Army Corps evacuate and the Black Sea fleet infantry fights, during World War II, in 1940.