• Lost history
• Jewish Council
• "I might see my mother"
• Flowers, furniture, teapot
• Auerswald's reports
• Willy Wist, cameraman
• Garbage and lipstick
• Waiting to die
• Smuggling
• Underground Jewish archive
• Surprising discovery
• Dinner and theater
• "A Jew film"
• Death
• Ghetto in color
• "Today I can cry"
• Faces.

• Features: Death Mills (1945, 22 min.; directed by Billy Wilder; new telecine made from archival 16mm elements) ; Interview with author and film researcher Adrian Wood (ca. 15 min.) ; Scholar Michael Berenbaum on A Film Unfinished (ca. 4 min.) ; Study Guide in pdf format [DVD-ROM feature].

At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film in an East German archive was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May of 1942, the film became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. The later discovery of a long-missing reel, including multiple takes and cameramen staging scenes, complicated earlier readings of the footage. Presented is the raw footage in its entirety, falsely showing the 'good life' of Jewish urbanites. Included is an interview, and more.
Death Mills: "Directed by...Billy Wilder for the U.S. War Department in 1945, [this film] was originally intended for screening in occupied Germany and Austria and featured a German language soundtrack...[T]he first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder." -- Onscreen menu.

"When Benito Mussolini visited Adolf Hitler in September 1937, a million people jammed Berlin's Olympic Stadium and adjoining Mayfield to hear speeches and witness a spectacular military tattoo. This original Nazi documentary also features scenes of Mussolini meeting with Nazi leaders in Munich, watching the Germany Army's field maneuvers, visiting with Göring and reviewing military parades"--Container.

• Tag der Freiheit (1935, 17 min.)
• Feldzug in Polen (1940, 34 min.)
• Nazi newsreels (17 min.).

Tag der Freiheit: A wordless documentary about the German Army on maneuvers during war games at the time of the 1935 Nurnberg Nazi rally.
Feldzug in Polen: Documentary propaganda film on the invasion of Poland. The Nazis attempted to prove they were totally justified in their invasion of Poland, to free an oppressed people. Narrated English version.
Nazi newsreels: Excerpts from German weekly newsreels Deutsche Wochenschau from the 1940s expounding the Nazi view of the war. In German with English subtitles.

• v. 1. Civilian defense (1942, 30 min., b&w) Instructional film showing the operation of an air-raid control center and the duties of the air-raid warden. Includes household air-raid precautions and methods of extinguishing fires
• Big changeover (1942) / directed by Robert Jahns; produced by Philip Martin, Jr. (8 min., b&w) American industry converts from the production of commercial goods to the manufacture of war materials
• Fellow Americans {1942) / directed by Garson Kanin, written by Wallace Russell; narrated by James Stewart (10 min., b&w) This short film shows how the attack on Pearl Harbor touched four typical American cities
• You, John Jones! (c. 1943) / starring James Cagney, Margaret O'Brien; directed by Mervyn LeRoy (9 min., b&w) Hollywood production showing what family life in America would look like if the country were to suffer the same hardships and destruction suffered by families in Europe and China.

• v. 2. Trimbles of Maple Street (1942) / directed by Sheldon Dick; story by John McDonald and Charles Cromer (15 min., b&w) Government film promoting the conservation of war materials such as metals and gasoline
• Letter from Bataan (1942) / starring Susan Hayward, Richard Arlen, Jimmy Lydon (14 min., b&w) Dramatic featurette spotlighting the need to conserve food and goods for the war effort
• A community at war (1942, (20 min., b&w) War Department film highlighting the nation's wartime shortage of manpower. Focuses on efforts of community leaders in Dayton, Ohio to alleviate that town's labor problems
• Salvage (1942, 7 min., b&w) Chairman of the War Production Board urges Americans to salvage metal and rubber for the production of war material
• Hands (1944, 3 min., b&w) Brief promotional spot for War Bonds, emphasizing that their purchase supports munitions production.

• v. 3. Conquer by the clock (1943) / produced by Frederic Ullman, Jr.; directed by Slavko Vorkapich; written by Phil Reisman, Jr. (11 min., b&w) Links poor work habits on the homefront to the deaths of U.S. soldiers overseas
• Gas racket (1943, 19 min., b&w) Dramatic film illustrating the consequences and penalties associated with the sale of stolen and counterfeit gasoline ration stamps
• What to do in a gas attack (1943) / written, diredted, produced by Sherman Price (14 min., b&w) Instructional film outlining precautions civilians can take against gas attacks. Demonstrates some first aid measures that can be employed in the event of exposure
• Wartown (1943, 11 min., b&w) Government film showing the effects of increased employment and war production in Mobile, Alabama
• Report from the front (1944) / by Humphrey Bogart (3 min., b&w) Humphrey Bogart speaks about the various activities of the American Red Cross.

• v. 4. A challenge for democracy (1943, 20 min., col.) A color film examining the living conditions and facilities at Japanese-American relocation camps
• Glamour girls of 1943 ((1943, 9 min., b&w) A short incentive film encouraging women to take war jobs in both industrial and non-industrial fields
• Women in defense (1941) / Katharine Hepburn, narrator (11 min., b&w) An overview of what women are doing for the war effort in the fields of science, industry, and the home
• It's up to you (1943, 10 min., b&w) Explains the need for food rationing as a way to ease the pressure on American farms so they can produce enough food for U.S. troops
• America's hidden weapon (1944) / written by Charles Tedford; directed by William McGann (11 min., b&w). Extols the virtues of U.S. food production efforts, which reached record levels in 1943.

• v. 5. The Cummington story (1945) / Aaron Copeland, music (22 min., b&w) The true story of a group of immigrants settling in a small New England town
• Steel town (1944, 17 min., b&w) A short film documenting the lives of a group of steel workers, descended from a variety of European backgrounds, in Youngstown, Ohio, as they contribute to war effort
• Just for remembrance (1944, 3 min., b&w) Promotional film for War Bonds, emphasizing wartime tragedies that can be avoided by purchasing more bonds
• Soldiers without guns (1944, 18 min., b&w) Government motion picture demonstrating that even seemingly mundane homefront occupations are important to the war effort.

• v. 6. No exceptions (1943) / story by Philp Lewis; produced by Eugene R. O'neil; directed by Robert Webb (10 min., b&w) A film contrasting the war-related activities of community-minded women with selfish women who refuse to sacrifice any of their time for the war effort
• Men of fire (1944, 17 min., b&w) A film about homefront forge workers; combines genuine war footage with dramatization
• Skirmish on the homefront (1943) / screenplay, Maxwell Shane; produced by William C. Thhomas; directed by William H. Pine; starring Alan Ladd, Betty Hutton, William Bendix, Susan Hayward (13 min., b&w) Articulates American's responsibilities in preventing inflation
• No alternative (1944, 7 min., b&w) A filmed public appeal for cooperation with the rationing of gasoline urging citizens to form carpools and eschew counterfeit stamps
• Silence! (1944, 3 min., b&w) War Bonds promotional film linking the failure to buy bonds with the deaths of U.S. soldiers
• Furlough (1946)/ produced by Frederic Ullman, Jr.; directed by Gene Milford; written by Oviatt McConnell (8 min., b&w) Cinematic appeal to the citizenry to donate to the National War Fund.

Since 1935, the National Archives has been responsible for the acquisition, preservation, and public dissemination of the permanent records of the United States government. Select materials, culled from the millions of pieces making up the National Archives' popular holdings, have been assembled to produce War on the Homefront, a cinematic recounting of the stateside war effort waged by civilian men and women and the war measures - from gas rationing to Victory Gardens - instituted across the country. Features newsreel footage, government training films, dramatizations, and appearances by numerous Hollywood stars.