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Defenders of the Faith: The Spanish Civil War in Colour (2007)

Director

Russell Palmer

Subject

Film Studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 153 minutes), £16.99

Hailed as the first picture to show actual warfare in natural colour footage, DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH uses air-to-air action footage of such events as the Nationalist ‘Flying Turkeys’ squadron strafing...

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Squadron 992 (1940 Video)

Director

Harry Watt

Producer

Alberto Cavalcanti

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 26 min.

In response to a request for a film that showed the importance of balloon barrage, Harry Watt made this drama-documentary about the training of a balloon squadron and its first assignment to the Forth...

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Minis Make Money (1973 Video)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 76 min., 2000 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

Seven selected official British government information films showing how Britain has been portrayed over the last 60 years: 1) Opus (1967, 27 min): an impressionistic survey of the arts in Britain in the...

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Target for Tonight (1941 Film, Video)

Director

Harry Watt

Producer

Ian Dalrymple

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Illustrates the work of the Bomber Command in World War 2. Shows what it was like to fly on some of the earliest Wellington bomber raids agains Nazi Germany, following the fictional ‘F for Freddie’ on a...

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James May’s Twentieth Century (6 Parts) (2007)

aka: James May’s 20th Century

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £39.99

Documentary series about 20th century innovations. Separate programmes cover worldwide travel and communications, space exploration, how warfare drives ingenuity, emergence of the teenager, and urbanisation.

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