WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

newsreel
    n 1: a short film and commentary about current events

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

43 Moby Thesaurus words for "newsreel":
   3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, animated cartoon,
   black-and-white film, cartoon, chiller, cinema, color film,
   creepie, documentary, documentary film, educational film, feature,
   film, flick, flicker, horror picture, horse opera, motion picture,
   motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, nudie, photodrama,
   photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, preview,
   short, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview,
   spaghetti Western, talkie, talking picture, thriller, trailer,
   underground film