Movies: National Archives And Records Administration

The X-15 was the last in a line of manned rocket-powered research airplanes built during the 1950s to explore ever-faster and higher flight regimes. Nineteen years before Space Shuttle, the X-15 showed it was possible to fly into, and out of, space. ...

Documentary following Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972. Produced by the Richard Nixon Presidential Library from archive materials....

The Standard Oil Company of Chicago describes how gasoline was refined and used in the early 1950's. The film features a combination of animation and live-action scenes and displays gas stations, automobiles, trains, and various machines and industri...