World Newsreels online (1929-1966)Discover a unique video collection of many of the most important newsreels leading up to and during World War II, with 'World Newsreels online 1929-1966'. In war times, the newsreel became increasingly important as a propaganda tool, with more than one-third of each newsreel devoted to the war. Today, newsreels provide a clear archive of how governments shared news, manipulated facts, and influenced their populace. These films are often the only audio-visual record that remains of historical and cultural events, making them a powerful resource for historians and students of politics, sports, economics, media studies, and other areas