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Cold War, A (1991 Video)

Producer

Jonathan Dent

Subject

History

Distribution

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

Dr Christopher Andrew examines the origins of the Cold War: in 1945 Britain, America and the USSR were allies against Hitler; but soon after, on 5 March 1946, Winston Churchill speaking in Fulton, Missouri,...

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Turned Toward the Sun (2015)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £6.98

Documentary about the true-life story of British writer and poet Micky Burn. Born in Mayfair in 1912, his father worked for the Royal family. He became the lover of the communist spy Guy Burgess, and would...

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Erwin Piscator: Politics on the Stage in the Weimer Republic (1987 Multimedia)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, 50 slides. b&w/col.

Erwin Piscator was the most inventive political director in Germany between the Great War and Hitler. The slides, chosen from designs, production-photographs, cartoons and newspaper drawings, bring alive his...

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Rogue Male (1976)

Director

Clive Donner

Subject

Film studies; Literature; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 100 minutes), £14.99

In early 1939, with the Second World War looming, aristocrat Sir Robert Hunter (Peter O’Toole) attempts to avert the impending catastrophe by assassinating Adolf Hitler. But his mission fails. Captured by...

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Weisse Rose, Die (1995 Multimedia)

aka: White Rose,the

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

The White Rose was a group of students in Munich who organised resistance activities against the Hitler regime. The CD-ROM contains original pictures, images and audio recordings detailing the events,...

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Road: A Story of Life and Death

Director

Marc Isaacs

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £15.99

Documentary filmmaker Marc Isaacs follows the lives of a number of people who have been led, through force of circumstance, to call London their home. Isaacs’ subjects include a retired German air hostess...

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Hides (Historical Document Expert System) (15 Parts) (1995 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

A series of computer-based packages containing primary source material for teaching history ranging in time from the end of the 11th century to World War 2. Each title contains source material and support...

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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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Spanish Civil War, The 3 (1979 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min.

The Spanish civil war was a microcosm of the ideological conflict of this century. When Spanish Fascists under Francisco Franco rebel against the republican government, full civil war erupts. Mussolini and...

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World at War, The. Vol 4 (8 Parts) (1973 Video)

Director

Michael Darlow; John Pett; Hugh Raggett; Martin Smith

Producer

Peter Batty; Michael Darlow; David Elstein; Jeremy Isaacs; Jerome Kuehl; John Pett; Hugh Raggett; Martin Smith

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 8 x 52 min.

Part 1: The Russians from the east and the Allies from the west, drive Hitler’s armies back across the German borders and beyond (producer/writer Peter Batty). Part 2: The fate of 6 million Jews under...

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