Siege: World War II Begins: Original Film Footage of the Siege of Warsaw, Poland, September 1939

Nominated for an Academy Award in 1940, inducted into the U.S. National Film Registry in 2006 for preservation as one of the nation's most culturally, historically or aesthetically significant films, this rarely seen historic newsreel Siege is now available on DVD for the first time. These images of Nazis' tragic destruction of Warsaw shocked American public into awareness of the devastation of modern warfare, and the looming danger as the Nazis conquered country after country.