Films, Television Productions & Videos with a West Point Theme

Compiled December 28, 2005 by Alan Aimone



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WEST POINT CADETS (SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: DEWEY HOMCEOMING, NEW YORK CITY) produced by Edison, 1899.

DALY OF WEST POINT WINNING HURDLE RACE, produced by AM & B (American Mutoscope & Biography Company), December 9, 1902.

FOOTBALL GAME: WEST POINT VS. ANNAPOLIS, produced by AM & B, 1902.

PRINCE HENRY ARRIVING AT WEST POINT, produced by Edison, 1902.

PRINCE HENRY REVIEWING CADETS AT WEST POINT, produced by Edison, 1902.

PRINCE HENRY (PRUSSIA) AT WEST POINT, produced by AM & B, 1902.

REVIEW OF CADETS AT WEST POINT, produced by AM & B, 1903.

WEST POINT CADETS, produced by AM & B, 1903.

WEST POINT CADETS, ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION, U.S. MILITLARY ACADEMY, produced by AM & B, 1904.

WEST POINT ON PARADE, 1904.

ARMY QUARTERBACK, 1904.

HISTORY OF THE SWORD, 1904.

A DAY AT WEST POINT MILITARY ACADEMY, NEW YORK, Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (Library of Congress, George Kleine Collection, 'Captains of Tomorrow,' West Point ) 1911.

WEST POINT, SYMBOL OF OUR ARMY, 10 minute sound film.

PARADE TODAY, 1913 silent film, 12 minutes.

ARMY QUATERBACK, 1920 silent film, 12 minutes.

CADET DAYS, 1920 silent film. 30 minutes.

CLASSMATES, Richard Barthelmess, produced by John S. Robertson, Inspiration Pictures, Inc., NY; distributed by First National Pictures, 1924. See 'My impressions of West Point,' Pointer, vol. 2, no. 5 (Nov. 15, 1924): 8-12 and 41.

FLAMING FRONTIER, 1926.

DRESS PARADE, William Boyd and Bessie Love, produced by Donald Crip, DeMille Pathe Picture Co., 1927. First picture made without a single studio shot. Pointer, vol. 5, no. 3 (Oct. 15, 1927): 21,

GLOOM PERIOD, 1927

WEST POINT, 1928

FLIRTATION WALK, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, and Pat O'Brien, produced by Frank Borzage, Warner Brothers (First National Pictures), 1934.

WEST POINT OF THE AIR, 1935.

ROSALIE, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elenor Powell, Ray Bulgar, 1937.

DUKE OF WEST PONT, Louis Hayward, Richard Carlson, Joan Fontain, Allen Curtis, and Tom Brown, produced by Edward Small, United Artists, 1938

TOUCHDOWN ARMY, Robert Cummings and Mary Carlisle, produced by Adolph Zukor, Paramont, 1938.

SANTA FE TRAIL, 1940

CADET GIRL, 1941.

WEST POINT WIDOW, 1941

WEST POINT ON THE HUDSON/West Point Symbol of Our Army,' 12 minute b x w film, 1942. DVD: www.usmilitaryvideos.com

TEN GENTLEMEN FROM WEST POINT, George Montgomery, lMaureen O'Hara, and John Sutton, produced by Darryl - Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, 1943.

THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON, Errol Flynn and Oliva De Haviland, produced by Hall Wallis, Warner Brothers, 1943.

THIS IS WEST POINT, 1944.

THIS IS AMERICA SERIES: WEST POINT, 1945.

A DAY AT WEST POINT, 1945.

SPIRIT OF WEST PONT, Film Classics News [Glenn Davis and Felix Blachard football stars] 1947

WEST POINT GRAUDATION, 1947, 10 minute sound film.

BEYOUND GLORY, Paramount, 1948

JUNE WEEK ACTIVITIES, 1949, 30 minute sound film.

THE LONG GRAY LINE, 29 minute sound film.

THIS IS AMERICA, WEST POINT, 28 minute sound film.

THE WEST POINT STORY, Warner Home Video [musical comedy] 1950

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ARMY 1950 FOOTBALL SEASON, Football Office.

FRANCES GOES TO WEST POINT, 1952

THE LONG GRAY LINE, Columbia Pictures, Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, 1955.

Parade talent show, ABC Television, first live television show at West Point hosted by Arlene Francis, Thursday, June 9, 1955. Cadets contributed their talents. Broadcast took place in Cullum Hall.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 1956 FOOTBALL SEASON, Army Athletic Association, 1956.

*THE MAKING OF A WEST POINTER, SIGNAL CORPS MISC. FILM, col. 45-8521.

*THIS IS WEST POINT, Signal Corps, Miscellaneous No. 7726, 1956.

HELLO DOLLY, West Point scenes, 1956-1957.

*WEST POINT STORY, CBS series dramatized actual events and persons from the files of West Point, 5 October 1956-1 July 1958, weekly, 39 one-half hour shows. Redone as a 2003 Commemorative West Point Series, 10 vols. VHS or DVD.

EISENHOWER AT WEST POINT, CBS, narrated by Dwight David Eisenhower, 1957

*FITNESS FOR LEADERSHIP, Gillette Safety Razor Company, 1961.

ANDERSON PLATOON [Joseph Anderson, Class of 1965] CBS documentary, 1967.

*MAKING OF A LEADER, Admissions Office, 1969.

*BOB HOPE'S 78TH BIRTHDAY SPECIAL, NBC, 1970.

WEST POINT ON THE HUDSON, Oxford Films [Re-discovering America series, importance of West Point during the Revolutionary War and the Academy's contribution to the development of the Nation] 1974

THE SILENCE [James Joseph Pelosi] NBC, November 6, 1975

MAC ARTHUR, 1977

WOMEN AT WEST PONT, 1978, CBS; 'Grayboy interview: Linda Purl, a candid interview with the leading lady of the made-for-TV movie, 'women at West Point',' Pointer, vol. 55, no. 4 (Winter 1979): 7-8 and 28.

THE PLEB YEAR OF JENNIFER SCOTT, CBS, 1979

DRESS GRAY, NBC miniseries, 1986

100 YEARS OF ARMY FOOTBALL, NFL Films, Inc., 1989.

GENERAL H. NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF (Class of 1956): ADDRESS TO THE CORPS OF CADETS, 16 May 1991, DOIM/AVIT Television Production, videocassette USMA Library VHS 7011

OFFICER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Dave Richard Palmer (Class of 1956). Describes present and future state of the Academy, service-wide post war 'build down' and polarization of current populace, 14 May 1991 farewell address to the Corps of Cadets, video cassette VHS 7010, 1991

DAYS OF DARKNESS THE GETTYSBURG CIVILIANS, A&E Home Video/Time-Life Video [Civil War Journal series] 1993

CLASS OF '61, ABC Pilot, 1994

WEST POINT CLASSMATES CIVIL WAR ENEMIES, A&E Home Video/Time-Life Video [Civil War Journal series] 1994

ASSAULT AT WEST POINT [Johnson Chestnut Whittaker] ABC, 1994

AMERICA'S ARMY: WEST PONT, Association of the United States Army, 1995; videocassette.

WEST POINT STORY: FORTRESS OF FREEDOM, Thousand Oaks, CA: Goldhil Video, videocassettes, 1997.

American Experience series, MAC ARTHUR, part 1 - destiny and part 2, politics of war, PBS (WGBH Boston) 1999; 1 videocassett (29 min.): sd., col. ½ in. U410.P1.A44 1995

INSIDE AMERICA'S MILITARY ACADEMIES: CONQUERING SUMMER, Aims Multimedia, 1999 (all four service academies); videocassette (48 min.): sd., col., 1/3 in.

WEST POINT, History Channel, 11 September 2001.

DUTY, HONOR COUNTRY, 60 Minutes, CBS, 30 September 2001

U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY, Modern Marvels, History Channel, December 2001.

THE SEASON: ARMY - NAVY, ESPN, December 2001.

Driftwood Productions/Oregon PBS, Bicentennial documentary, January 30, 2002

CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood, May 26, 2002 - USMA segment the first half hour of the show

*FOX 'TWO CENTURIES OF HONOR AND TRADITION,' June 4, 2002

Travel Channel. 'AMERICAN ICONS: WEST POINT: WEST POINT,' June 27, 2002

'The Long Gray Line: The Spirit of West Point,' July 2002, History Channel

PBS - AMERICA'S FIRST RIVER, Bill Moyers, producer, April 23 and 24, 2002

History Channel - THE LONG GRAY LINE: THE SPIRIT OF WEST POINT, July 22, 2002

'Surveying West Point: September 11, 2002,' National Geographic TV (January 2003)

'U.S. Military Academy at West Point story,' 60 Minutes, May 8, 2005.

Related documented to 'Code Breakers,' ESPN2, Tuesday, December 6, 2005 8 p.m.

'Code Breakers,' ESPN, based on Bill McWilliams A Return to Glory, Saturday, December 10, 2005, 9 p.m.



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