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German Battlecruisers Scharnhorst on Patrol
This German propaganda movie was part of a U.S. Navy archive compiled during WWII, and acquired by Periscope Film. This Kriegsmarine film shows the cruise of the German warships Gneisenau and Blucher in the North Atlantic in 1939 and 1940. These two ships were to be part of what Adolph Hitler...

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Periscope Film LLC's archive is one of the largest military film collections in private hands. It includes rare training, combat, recruiting and history films made by the U.S. Government from 1914 through the mid-1980s. Subjects include the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Marines, Air Force, and civilian aviation, and conflicts from the Spanish-American War through WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam.

Periscope Film also maintains the premiere library of WWII and Cold War U.S. Navy submarine films. Nearly all of the material in Periscope Film's archive is available on 16mm film, and with in-house High Definition transfer capabilities the company is able to deliver extremely high-quality HD material for clients. These have included the History Channel, Disney, BBC, Discovery, PBS and other television and cable companies, and video game producers such as Ubisoft.

Founded by and co-owned by a pair of documentary filmmakers, Periscope Film supports independent production and routinely makes material from the archive available for museums, researchers, and independent fiction and non-fiction filmmakers. Visit www.PeriscopeFilm.com for more information.

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