# THE YEAR 1945

National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39094, LI 208-UN-187 - THE YEAR 1945 - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon. Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945. Shows Ger. films of the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. Roosevelt is inaugurated at the White House and poses at Yalta with Churchill and Stalin. Shows his funeral in Washington. Truman is sworn in. Gens. Jodl and W.B. Smith sign the Ger. surrender at Reims, France. Shows Gen. Eisenhower. Kamikaze planes attack ships in the Pacific. Shows the invasion of Okinawa. An atom bomb is exploded. Shigemitsu and MacArthur sign the Japanese. surrender aboard the Missouri. Shows atrocity evidence in Manila; Gen. Tojo in a hospital; various Japanese generals; scenes of Nazi concentration camps; and mob scenes in Milan, Italy, as Mussolini and Facist leaders are killed. Hitler visits a Ger. hospital. Shows war crime trials in Nuremberg. Delegates sign the UN Charter at San Francisco.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1945
- By: National Archives and Records Administration
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.39094)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.