Who is CombatReels.com: Combat Film Footage

Combat Reels, Incorporated is a Texas based company providing organized combat footage of military conflicts to the general public and television/film production companies worldwide. Corporate headquarters is located Ft. Worth, Texas.

Company Mission:

Our goal is to provide previously unreleased and identified combat footage of American units engaged in conflicts beginning in WWI, to the most recently declassified footage available. We do this by offering several conflict specific series, that contain unit specific DVDs which are unequaled in research or content on the current market. We are a product and service company, dedicated to establishing and servicing long term relationships within the movie and television production market while continuing to grow the selection of videos that are offered to the general public. We aim to be known as the premiere company for archival combat footage in the United States.

Where and What We Are Doing

Expanding our availability to all types of historical research has helped us grow by leaps and bounds. Whether it be the average citizen wanting to reconnect with a relatives service, to authors looking for unpublished images, to working with the new WWII video game companies, Combat Reels is accomplishing it's mission of bring the footage out of the film cans and straight to the public. We are also serving with true customer service. This is shown in our repeat business and in the fact that the company has received 100% positive feedback from our customers on Ebay. Our videos are being used in exhibits at the WWII Victory Museum in Indiana and the Tank Museum in Virginia. Overseas our products are found at the 1st Division Assault Museum, The Roosevelt Café at Utah Beach, he "Operation Cobra" Museum in Marigny, France and many more.

We are also working with various production companies in the U.S and Europe to provide as much footage as possible to stop the public seeing the same old footage anymore. Combat Reels has also been able to assist the U.S. Government in honoring veterans of World War II. With the American Battle Monuments Commission decision to build new visitors centers at each of the overseas cemeteries, Combat Reels was approached to assist in both footage and historical research. The Normandy Cemetery opened it's new Visitor Center on June 6, 2007, and Combat Reels was proud to have provided critical information to the films and exhibits of the new center.

Our History:

Combat Reels formed as a corporation in 2005 with a mission to bring never before broadcast World War II film reels to the public. However, this company was originally formed around the personal research of Tyler Alberts, beginning in 1998, and today he serves as the corporate president.

After the death of Alberts' grandfather, Tyler was struck with a need to know as much as possible about his grandfather's experiences in World War II. This need manifested itself into a quest of talking to as many of the veteran's as possible, who served with his grandfather in the 90th Infantry Division. The 90th was formed in Abilene, Texas, but these soldiers not only came, in some cases, from all over the USA, but they certainly scattered at the end of the war. He soon found himself crisscrossing the USA, again and again to do personal interviews with this quickly disappearing population. It seems the long journey of searching for film footage and historical information about this unit at libraries across the country and in the National Archives in Washington D.C. had begun.

After just two trips to the National Archives, he quickly located all of the available and already identified footage of the 90th. Strongly feeling that the 10 reels of labeled footage, that he had found, could not be the only footage out of the over 10,000 World War II reels stored there, he decided to spend more time going through the combat footage, reel by reel, searching for any hidden or unidentified reels showing the information he was looking for. His intuition would soon be confirmed, as he began to find footage of the 90th Division on reels that had no unit or location identification associated with them. He also began noticing that there were many other units on these reels that were not properly identified. From the beginning of his dedicated research, he had been wise enough to catalog all information on every reel associated with the European Theater. This would become the database that Combat Reels would eventually be built around.

Over the next 8 years, Mr. Alberts' knowledge of World War II would grow, and he would become a historian for the 90th Division and the general conflict of Europe. He would also become directly involved with providing information of previously unseen 90th Division footage to U.S. Army historians, veterans and their family members. During the time fellow historians and personal friends began to inquire about the availability of footage for other units involved in the European Theater. Up to this time Documentary film makers used the same war film footage over and over. They just put it into a different format to fit their varying subject matter. Enthusiasts were tired of seeing the same old information redressed.

Alberts decided to find a way to bring never before broadcasted footage, in its entirety, to the general public. He wanted to design and produce a DVD for each division that fought in World War II. This was truly the beginning of a new way to view the lost footage of this heavily researched conflict. Now after a long journey to bring these reels out of storage he is releasing these videos to the general public for all to enjoy. It seems the years of work are paying off as his first few releases have generated a great deal of excitement and praise. In compliance with his original vision, Combat Reels is dedicated to providing more footage of all units in World War II and all other American conflicts.

CombatReels wants to continue this quest; and we continue to expand the available films. Order A DVD today of your favorite unit in combat today!

104th Infantry Division Winter War: The Bulge and Beyond Series December 1944 - March 1945 $29.99 DVD Details

36th Infantry Division Winter War: The Bulge and Beyond November 1944- March 1945 $24.99 DVD Details

36th Infantry Division Liberation of Western Europe Series August 1944 - October 1944 $24.99 DVD Details

29th Infantry Division Winter War: The Bulge and Beyond December 1944 - February 1945 $24.99 DVD Details

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