Pentagon (1972)

Detroit suburb: the house in which seventeen-year-old American recruit Robert Mayell barricaded himself, attempting to commit suicide.

Policemen carry a young man.

A Buddhist monk burns himself in a Saigon town square (South Vietnam).

A man carries a dead child in his arms on a street in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic).

A mother and son plant flowers on their father’s grave at Arlington Cemetery (USA).

Pentagon employees going to work in the morning – Wed, general.

Pentagon building – general, Wed.

Pentagon employees at their workplaces – Wed, cr.

Caption: “Who started the “cold war”?” Newsreel from the 1940s: Celebrating the victory over Nazi Germany: Soviet and American soldiers and officers who met on the Elbe are talking – Wed, general.

Red Square in Moscow: Soviet soldiers are hugged and rocked.

In European countries, people rejoice and dance in the streets.

American soldiers returning home disembark from an airplane.

US President Harry Truman plays the piano accompanied by an orchestra.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill boards a ship; sits in a chair, smokes a cigar – Wed, CR. W. Churchill drives in a car along a street in the American city of Fulton, delivers a speech at Westminster College. H. Truman signs the Treaty on the Establishment of NATO, shows the signed document – CR. The first US Secretary of Defense James Forrestal takes the oath; stands in a group of owners of large banks.

NATO troop parade in West Germany, ten kilometers from Nuremberg.

Former Nazi Wehrmacht General Speidel, participating in NATO maneuvers, in a group of military men – CR. General Heusinger sits at NATO headquarters – CR. “NATO” sign – Wed.

Photo: General Heusinger at a reception with Hitler; documents signed by Heusinger – Wed, kr.

Heusinger was walking down the street – Wed.

James Forrestal working in his office, talking to visitors – Wed, kr.

The premises of the US Department of Defense.

Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson speaking at a meeting.

A workshop of the Farbenindustrie plant producing Zyklon gas, which was used to exterminate people in concentration camps – general, Wed, Poland.

Concentration camp – general (from above).

A barbed wire fence – kr, Poland.

Incinerators for incinerating corpses – kr.

US Secretary of Defense George Marshall sitting at his desk in his office, talking to visitors – Wed, kr.

Photographs in a magazine of the pilot and the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Hiroshima after the bomb explosion: ruins – panorama (from the plane).

Three participants of the atomic bombings are standing: generals Sweeney, Behan, Bezer – answering the question whether they feel guilty (negatively) – cf., ed.

Japanese women, affected by radiation sickness, in the hospital.

Memorial Day for the victims in Hiroshima: a girl rings a bell, Japanese pray; lanterns on the water.

Scientific experts Edward Teller, the creator of the hydrogen bomb, Jerome Wiesner, the White House adviser on nuclear weapons, testify before the Senate – kr., cf.

The caption "He who has much ...".

Newsreel from the 1950s: Skyscrapers, streets, buildings – kr., Poland.

The buildings of the Pentagon, banks, the White House – kr.

US President Dwight Eisenhower speaks to those gathered in the halls – kr.

Photographs of Nelson Rockefeller, chairman of the Pentagon reorganization commission, C.E. Wilson, the new US Secretary of Defense.

Charles Edwin Wilson, president of Dupain's General Motors concern, speaks at his desk in his office – kr.

Work in the shops of General Motors enterprises on the production of weapons.

Work of Pentagon employees – kr.

The currency exchange building, the exchange employees and the brokers negotiate currency transactions – kr, kr (from the top).

The new US Secretary of Defense Thomas Gates, a representative of the Drexler & Company bank and the Marine League in a group of military men – kr, kr.

Aircraft carriers – kr, kr, Poland.

An airplane takes off from the deck of an aircraft carrier, flies – kr, kr.

Work at one of the Ford automobile plants – kr.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, president of the Ford company, a millionaire, speaks – kr.

Assembly of bombers in the aircraft plant shops – kr, Poland, kr.

Airplanes on the airfield and in the air – kr.

The Pentagon building, the main entrance, above which is carved the inscription: "He who has much multiplies his wealth" – kr.

American soldiers are issued military cards – kr.

An automatic line for the production of shells and cartridges is operating at the plant – kr.

American planes flying and dropping bombs – cf., kr.

Pentagon employees going to work – cf.

US Secretary of State Melvin Laird speaking at Congress against ratification of the Soviet-American Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.

Construction of a military base (from an airplane) - general.

Caption: "Chain of crimes".

Pentagon employees at their consoles and walking along corridors, colored green, blue, red, gold according to the level of secrecy of their services – cf.

Panorama of consoles with telephones, equipment, buttons – cf.

Newsreel from the 1950s: American soldiers putting on helmets, marching – Wed, gen.

An American plane firing in the air.

A fire on the ground (North Korea).

Aggression of England, France, Israel against Egypt: Israeli soldiers unload American weapons – Wed; driving Arabs out of their homes – Wed, cr.

Cartoon: a map-scheme of oil production in Arab countries by various states, including the USA; emblems and advertisements of American oil companies – Wed, cr.

Newsreel from the 1950s: Ships of the 6th American fleet at sea – Wed, gen.

The Pentagon: a computer center; flashing light boards – Wed, cr.

American aggression against Lebanon: the landing of American Marines near Beirut in Khalda – Wed.

American tanks and amphibious tanks drive by, infantry advances – various.

Oil production at an oil field and an oil refinery in Iraq – general, panorama.

Newsreel from the 1960s: The American fleet off the coast of Cuba.

Airplanes take off from the deck of an aircraft carrier – categorized.

Cuban coastal batteries – various.

Demonstrations in defense of Cuba in Latin American countries – various.

American aggression against the Dominican Republic: American patrols on the streets of Santo Domingo, battles, reprisals, a murdered child – general, cf.

The Pentagon command center – various, panorama.

Radar installation on an American ship – general, categorized, panorama.

Gun crews on ships bring the gun to combat position – cf.

The radio operator transmits a message (night) – cf.

American sailors fire guns at North Vietnam – various.

American planes in the air, a plane takes off from an aircraft carrier – cf.

President L. Johnson speaking – cf., kr.

A collection of classified documents about the Vietnam War, published by The New York Times in July 1971. Former Pentagon employee Daniel Ellsberg, who handed over these documents to the press with the newspaper in his hands, talks to a newspaper correspondent – cf.

The New York Times newspaper - cf.

Raising the national flag of the DRV – cf.

Vietnam.

The people greet the liberating soldiers.

DRV President Ho Chi Minh greets the people; he is holding a child in his arms – cf., kr.

A car with L. Johnson driving through the streets of Saigon. L. Johnson greets the residents of South Vietnam, shakes hands with a little Vietnamese girl – common, cf.

A Vietnamese boy cleans an American's shoes – kr., Poland.

A Vietnamese woman begs passers-by for alms – cf.

A rickshaw driver carries an American soldier – cr., Poland.

Newsreel from the 1950s-70s: The American protégés, the president and prime ministers of South Vietnam – Diem, Ky, Thisu.

A protest demonstration in Saigon, demonstrators burn a portrait of the next president - Wed, kr.

Self-immolation of a monk in a Saigon square - Wed, freeze frame.

The commander of the US armed forces in South Vietnam, General Westmoreland, with the new president Thisu and other Vietnamese rulers - kr, Wed.

Thisu walks by, gets into a car - kr, Wed.

American planes bomb the territory of Vietnam - kr.

The earth is burning, destroyed cities, hospital buildings, residential buildings, irrigation structures - various.

Earth in bomb craters - kr, Poland.

Interview with General Westmoreland (simultaneously in English) - kr.

Photo of American officers Medina and Calley, who shot civilians in the South Vietnamese village of Song My (run-over) – Wed, kr.

Burning Vietnamese village – Wed, kr.

Killed Vietnamese – Wed, kr. L. Johnson presents awards to American officers in Vietnam.

A Vietnamese man writes an inscription on a tombstone – Wed.

Photo: American soldiers kill Vietnamese civilians.

Americans in the USA warmly welcome Medina and other officers who returned from Vietnam – Wed, kr.

American soldiers marching.

Inscription: "On foreign soil".

Pentagon building – general, Poland.

Pentagon employees at work at their control panels – kr.

A train carrying containers with poisonous gases passes by – Wed, kr.

A ship with containers filled with poisonous gases is sunk at sea – Wed.

In the laboratory, scientists are working on improving a deadly weapon.

A cannon fires burning napalm, a Vietnamese child's face burned by napalm - CU. German scientist Baron Wernher von Braun - CU. Newsreel from the 1930s: A group of German scientists, including Obersturmbannführer Wernher von Braun, are working on a new modern weapon of mass destruction.

Testing a rocket on the northern tip of Uze Island - CU. Hitler and a group of German officers pass by - CU. Illustrations for entries from Wernher von Braun's calendar about his work on the V-2 rocket.

London destroyed by a rocket - CU. W. von Braun and American scientists are working on new military rockets - CU, CU.

Newsreel: Missile weapons testing – general, average.

Cartoon: map of the location of US military bases in Europe and Asia.

Preparing a bomber for a flight at one of the US strategic aviation bases.

Airplanes taking off.

Airplanes (with atomic and hydrogen bombs) in the air.

The Spanish village of Palomares destroyed by the fall of 4 hydrogen bombs to the ground after the explosion of an American plane.

Removing a layer of soil contaminated with the plutonium part of the charge, 4000 containers with contaminated soil – average, average.

American soldiers are laying out a new military base in Japan: they are driving a stake into the territory of the future base.

The peasants are resisting, crying, and indignant.

The police are dispersing the peasants with batons.

An American plane is flying over a peasant field, over a playground with playing children.

American soldiers on the streets of a Japanese city.

A soldier with a Japanese prostitute is walking by (evening).

A male drug addict – kr, cf.

A radar installation – kr, cf.

A radar screen – kr.

A man at the control panel at the command post.

Strategic aviation headquarters with communication installations.

Combat alert at American military bases: soldiers run, get into cars, drive to the airfield, load into the plane; bombers with hydrogen bombs taxi to the runways.

Major Keller, serving at a missile base, and his wife are drinking tea at home.

They answer the question in the negative: will their conscience oppress them if they have to, by order, launch missiles and thereby destroy many cities and millions of people with these weapons (synchronously in English).

American General Holloway answers a similar question (synchronously).

Caption: "GI".

Several young Vietnamese soldiers – kr, cf.

American soldiers leaving for the war in Vietnam are presented with military cards.

Seeing off the soldiers.

Training and education of young soldiers in special secret schools of the Pentagon: commands are heard (synchronously).

A young American soldier with his parents.

Soldiers with girls.

Training GI soldiers at a special Pentagon school.

American soldiers in Vietnam: beating and shooting civilians – Wed, kr.

Soldiers praying during a church service, counting money – Wed, kr.

Dollar – kr.

A downed American plane is burning in the sky – Wed.

A downed plane on the ground – Wed.

A burnt American tank – kr.

American soldiers carrying out and escorting wounded comrades from the battlefield – Wed, kr.

Wounded – kr, Poland.

A coffin with the body of a dead soldier, covered with the American national flag.

An officer places the dead man's medals on the coffin and salutes – Wed, kr.

The body of an American soldier, wrapped in a raincoat, with the dead man's headdress on top – kr.

Arlington Cemetery in Washington.

Demonstration of workers at the walls of the Pentagon – vari.

Police disperse demonstrators.

Interviews with American citizens speaking out against the war in Vietnam (synchronously) – cf.

Pentagon employees going to work in the morning – cf.

The Pentagon building – general.