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First World War, The: Life on the Home Front in North West England (2014)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £12.00

Footage from the North West Film Archive showing life on the home front in North West England during World War I. Clips include the the Accrington Pals, the Lancashire Fusiliers and the Cheshire Regiment...

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Gas Attack (2002)

Subject

History; Military Science

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 164 minutes), £12.99

This programme traces the history of gas and chemical weapons in the First and Second World Wars.

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Great Generals of the 20th Century, The (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

Portraits of 20th-century military figures: Eisenhower, Haig, Montgomery, Patton, Rommel, Schwarzkopf, Sharon and others, with 15 generals discussed in depth and 45 additional biographies.

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Great War, The (1995 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 52 min., 1998 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Follows the course of World War 1 using archive footage which covers the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo, the mobilisation of troops, the invasion of Belgium, trench warfare, the first use of...

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Caribbean Women in World War II (1993 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1994 sale: £40.00

Charts the little-known story of women’s involvement throughout the British Empire in World War 2. Four black women now living in London provide a fascinating piece of oral history, told with insight and...

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Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany - Set 1 (1984)

aka: Heimat: Eine Deutsche Chronik

Subject

German studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 924 minutes), £59.99

Shot over two years, Edgar Reitz’s 11-part series HEIMAT, made for German television, is a semi-autobiographical drama telling the the saga of a German family, living in a small village, from the end of...

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Farewell to Arms, A (1932)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 79 minutes), £12.99

1932 adaptation of Hemingway’s classic World War I novel starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes.

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Burma: Railway of Death (1997 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 45 min., 1997 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

The story of the building of the Burma-Thailand railway by British prisoners of war during World War 2, combining the recollections of ex-prisoners who were involved with Japanese propaganda films of the time.

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I was There: The Great War Interviews (2014)

Director

Detlef Siebert

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

In the early 1960s, the BBC, in partnership with the Imperial War Museum, conducted a series of interviews with First World War veterans, for the television series THE GREAT WAR. Most of these interviews...

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World War II (Years 1931-1945) (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

Drawing on the Universal Newsreel archives, describes events, personalities and issues that enveloped the entire world before and during World War 2. Contains 249 newsreel story summeries, 2500 photographs...

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