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Everybody’s Business (1917 Film)

Producer

Ralpy Dewsbury

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Ralph Dewsbury was released from the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 in order to make this film for the Ministry of Food. It is a featurette in which Mr Briton steadfastly refuses to tighten his belt but is...

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Nampo No Tomo e (1943 Film)

aka: To South-East Asian Friends

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows foreign students from India, Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines (a solitary German and a Frenchman are also conspicuous) studying and relaxing at a hostel of the International Student Fellowship at...

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Eternal Jew, The (1940)

aka: Ewige Jude, Der

Director

Fritz Hippler

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 676 minutes), $19.99

This, the most vicious and virulent of all Nazi films, goes through the whole range of anti-semitic attitudes. It attacks Jews for allegedly choosing to live in squalor (in sequences of the Warsaw ghetto),...

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Film Unfinished, A (2010)

Director

Yael Hersonski

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £14.99

At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply "Ghetto," this footage quickly became...

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Went the Day Well? (1942)

Director

Alberto Cavalcanti

Producer

Michael Balcon

Subject

English language and literature; Film studies; History; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £15.99

Feature film from a story by Graham Greene. The village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops dsguised as British soldiers as part of Hitler’s plan for the invasion of Britain. Music by William...

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Swastika (1973)

Director

Philippe Mora

Producer

David Puttnam

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes + 82 minutes extras), £11.99

Met with a tumultuous reception at Cannes in 1973, Swastika was subsequently banned in Germany until 2010, when it was acknowledged for its significant contribution to understanding Hitler and Nazism; as...

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Frank Capra’s Why we Fight (1942)

Director

Frank Capra

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 403 minutes), £24.99

Forceful propaganda on the aims of democracy contrasted with fascism. Liberties are taken with the material but a good example of the best resources of Hollywood directed towards propaganda and patriotic...

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History of the English Language (1943)

Director

Mary Field

Subject

English language and literature; Linguistics

History of the English Language acts as an excellent layman’s introduction to the origins of one of the most common languages on the planet, demonstrating how dialect changes over time, and presenting...

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Big Picture, The (2008)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 235 minutes), £19.99

The Cold War of the 1950s resulted in many US television programmes produced by government and industry to promote their own interests. The longest running and best received of these was the U.S. Army’s...

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