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Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War (2012)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.99

On October 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy informed the world that the Soviet Union was building secret missile bases on the island of Cuba, 90 miles off the shores of Florida. The events of the next 13...

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Journey, The (1987)

aka: Resan

Director

Peter Watkins

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 870 minutes), 30 Euros

Peter Watkins’ monumental fourteen hour documentary was produced in 1983-86 by the Swedish Peace & Arbitration Society and local support groups in Sweden, Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, USSR, Mexico,...

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Abc News: Lifting the Fog - The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2002)

aka: Lifting the Fog - The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 70 minutes), $19.98 (+p&p)

A provocative investigation into the historical motives that led to the U.S. decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan.

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Abc News: Hiroshima - Why the Bomb was Dropped (2002)

aka: Hiroshima - Why the Bomb was Dropped

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 70 minutes), $19.98 (+p&p)

Peter Jennings takes a behind-the-scenes look at the Truman administration and the events that led to the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945. Includes footage of the incredible destruction, some of which has...

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Cold War, Hot Jets (2013)

Director

Simon Winchcombe

Producer

Simon Winchcombe

Subject

Engineering; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £34.99

Britain emerged from the Second World War in financial crisis, but one technological innovation provided hope for the future: a world-leading jet aviation industry. During the Cold War, the jet engine became...

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Site One: Holy Loch (1985 Video)

Director

Sarah Noble

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min.

Examines the activites of the US Navy during the 24 years that American nuclear submarines have been stationed at Holy Loch on the Firth of Clyde. Sets out the strategic and diplomatic origins of the US Navy...

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Unstable Elements (1985 Film, Video)

Director

Andy Metcalfe; Paul Morrison

Producer

Gillian Slovo

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Using interviews with scientists and newsreels from the l940s and l950s, traces how Britain came to build the atomic bomb and how the bomb was sold to the public. A fictional part attempts to examine the way...

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How Well we Meant (1983 Video)

Director

Sky Fabin; John McLeod

Producer

Lou Montgomery Fabin

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min.

Forty years after the invention of the atomic bomb, the scientists who had worked at Los Alamos laboratories in New Mexico got together. They talk about the events that changed history and their thoughts...

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Very British Coup, A (1988 Video)

Director

Mick Jackson

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

DVD

The complete television drama series, based on the novel by Chris Mullen, MP, in which a charismatic steelworker is elected prime minister on a radical socialist platform. When he calls for the dismantling...

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Code and Catastrophe (2000)

Subject

Engineering; Information technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 29 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

Surveys the role and importance of software in a variety of safety critical systems. Concentrates on two major areas: 1) the control and monitoring of nuclear weapons, an important and current activity, and...

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