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To Secret Rosies (2011)

aka: Rosies: The Female Computers of Wwii

Director

LeAnn Erickson

Subject

History; Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.00

In 1942 soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a secret military program was launched to recruit female mathematicians who would become human ‘computers’ for the US military. Top Secret...

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Stealth: The Ultimate Profile (2000)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., £12.99 (inclusive)

Looks at the development of the Stealth aircraft from the SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest military aircraft ever, to future projects such as the F-22 Raptor and the Joint Strike Fighter. Shows footage of the...

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Medical Management of Biological Casualties (1998 Multimedia)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, 6 videocassettes. VHS (NTSC only). col. 600 min., 1998 sale: £245.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A video-based training programme to teacht he proper response to biological and terrorist attacks on civilians or the military. Teaches how to identify a threat of biological warfere; distinguish between a...

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Partisans - War Behind the Lines (2000 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 48 min., 2001 sale: £9.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Uses archive footage to highlight the importance of the organised civilian groups who fought military actions or performed acts of espionage, sabotage, disruption and protest against occupying forces. Looks...

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Falklands War, The: An Historic Conflict (4 Parts) (1985 Multimedia)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Tape 1 discusses the historical and economic background to the war and analyses the respective merits of Britain’s and Argentina’s claim to sovereignty. Tape 2 discusses the sinking of the General...

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Operation Barbarossa: The Russian German War (2015)

Producer

Jerry Lawton

Subject

History; Military Science

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 136 minutes), £12.99

First shown on Canadian television in 1995, a 2-DVD set giving an account of the events that unfolded between the Russians and the Germans on the Eastern Front during World War II. The lives of tens of...

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Contempt of Conscience (2008)

Director

Joe Jenkins

Subject

Philosophy; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £25.00

At the beginning of the 20th century 80% of war casualties were combatants. At the beginning of the 21st century 80% of war casualties were civilians. Today, civilians pay for war like never before. As the...

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Soviet Newsreel No. 59 (June 1941): Special Issue: The Radio Broadcast by the Chairman of the Peoples’ Commissars, V M Molotov (1941 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The broadcast made by Molotov on 22 June 1941 in which he announced to the Russian people that their country had been invaded by German troops. The newsreel shows shots of factory workers and members of the...

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Small Arms, Soft Targets (1994 Video)

Producer

Martin Freeth

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

In recent years the design of anti-personnel weapons has raced ahead. But new generations of automatic rifles, fragmentation weapons and landmines are producing an epidemic of horrifying injuries on the...

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Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2010)

Director

Judith Ehrlich; Rick Goldsmith

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £5.99

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a top military strategist working for the RAND Corporation, leaked a 7,000-page document known as the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. Disenchanted with the nation’s conduct...

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