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Moving Images

Overview

Moving images deliver a compelling visual record of twentieth- and twenty-first-century political movements, philosophy, and historic events. Highlights include moving images of the Russian Revolution of 1917; the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945; the floods in Tianjin, China, in 1939; and Mother Teresa interviewed by William F. Buckley in 1989. Formats include motion picture films, videotapes, optical media, and digital files.

Firing Line Broadcasts

Television program hosted by William F. Buckley, 1966–99

Herman Axelbank Motion Picture Film Collection

Depicts major events in Russian and Soviet history, 1896–1977

Citizens For Reagan Records

Campaign materials promoting the presidential candidacy of Ronald Reagan, 1976

Alexander And Ethel Pronin Collection

Films of Russian and Soviet culture, 1908–2001

John Kenneth Caldwell Papers

US diplomat who filmed daily life in China, 1935–41

Uncommon Knowledge Video Tapes

Television program hosted by Hoover Institution fellow Peter Robinson, 1996–present

Pacific Gas And Electric Company Motion Picture Film

Campaign presentations by candidates running for political office in California, 1960–70

Harold Melvin Agnew Motion Picture Film

Los Alamos Laboratory staff member who filmed bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1943–46

Wilbur J. Peterkin Papers

Officer, Observer Mission with Chinese communist forces, Yenan, China, 1944–45

Paul C. Domke Audiovisual Materials

US teacher in China, 1937–39; US Observer Mission to Yenan member, 1944–45

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How the United States saved a starving Soviet Russia: PBS film highlights Hoover scholar's research on the 1921-23 famine

The film is based on Hoover research fellow Bertrand Patenaude's The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921. The world barely remembers the terrible famine in the Soviet Russia–or the American charity that relieved it. Patenaude tells how Herbert Hoover saved more lives than any person who has ever lived.

April 04, 2011
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Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.

A select group of television broadcasts from the Firing Line collection held in the Hoover Archives is now available as DVDs.

September 11, 2008
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Motion Picture Films Available for Streaming

Two English-language films produced by RFE/RL in the 1960s can be viewed on Hoover’s RFE/RL website. The films, which were used to promote RFE/RL operations in the United States, are part of the RFE/RL corporate records held by the Hoover Institution Archives.

July 29, 2009
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Finding Aid to the Firing Line Broadcast Records Posted Online

A guide to the paper documents in the Firing Line broadcast collection is available online.

June 17, 2009
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Hoover Institution News Advisory: Hoover Institution Houses Broadcast Archive of William F. Buckley Jr's. Show Firing Line

The broadcast archive of William F. Buckley Jr.'s television show Firing Line is housed in the Hoover Institution Archives. In addition to the television show he hosted, Buckley, who died today, was a columnist, author, and founded National Review in 1955.

February 27, 2008
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