The National Screening Room
The National Screening Room showcases the riches of the Library's vast moving image collection, designed to make otherwise unavailable movies, both copyrighted and in the public domain, freely accessible to the viewers worldwide.
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The works in this collection have been identified to be in the public domain and are free to use and reuse without restriction. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the works, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Attribution is recommended but not required.
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A better America
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A better New York
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About faces
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Black marketing
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Bomber
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Carry the fight
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Communism.
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Film communique. No. 4
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For Health and Happiness
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Henry Browne, farmer
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Negro colleges in war time
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The Atom Comes to Town
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The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress
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The adventures of Junior Raindrop
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The arm behind the Army
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The calls that cure
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The river
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When work is done
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