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First World War Remembered, The

Subject

FE; History

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette CD, 60 minutes), £5.99 (cassette) £9.99 (CD)

Reminiscences of 31 men and women recounting their experiences of problems and conditions on the Western Front and on the Home Front in Britain.

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Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema (2018)

Director

Tony Richardson; Karel Reisz; Richard Lester; Desmond Davis

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £64.99

Woodfall Films revolutionised British cinema during the 1960s with a slate of iconic films such as LOOK BACK IN ANGER and THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER. As the company reaches its...

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Slab Boys-Bbc Front Row Radio Feature (2003)

Subject

Drama

A short feature on the Radio 4 programme Front Row to tie in with the Traverse Theatre’s plans to re-stage the entire ‘Slab Boys’ trilogy about teenagers in the 1950s and 60s as the culmination of...

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Julian Barnes - Front Row Interview (2004)

Subject

Drama

A feature on the Radio 4 programme Front Row. Mark Lawson talks to Julian Barnes in his London home about his writing career, why his ‘Who’s Who’ entry is so enigmatically brief, and why he shrugs off...

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Western Front, The (1999 Video)

Director

Steven Clarke; Keith Sheather

Producer

Mark Fielder

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col/b&w. 180 min., 2000 sale: £17.99 (inclusive)

Series in which military historian Richard Holmes examines how World War 1 was fought in trenches, forts and bunkers, with the aim of highlighting the contrasts on the battlefields where ‘ancient ideas of...

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Ww1 Western Front (1999 Video)

aka: Western Front - Ww1, The

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1999 sale: £52.88 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Concentrates on the Western Front where all the major combatants believed the war would be won or lost. After four years of conflict and nine million casualties, it was won by the Entente. Covers: the...

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Newsreel History of the Third Reich, A (1994 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL)

Part 1: German newsreel film of the Western Front, the North Atlantic, Central Europe, the Mediterranean Front, the African Front and the Home Front. Part 2: Selected material taken from newsreel and...

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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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100 Years of Olympic History (1996 Video)

aka: 100 Years of Olympic Glory

Subject

Sports science

Distribution

Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 176 min., 1996 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

A compilation of sporting events from the modern Olympic Games. Archive footage and interviews with athletes includes footage of swimmer Mark Spitz, runner Kip Keino and gymnast Olga Korbut.

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Keep Calm and Carry on: News Reports from the British Home Front 1939-1945 (2011)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 482 minutes), £19.99

Compilation of newsreels from the Second World War reporting on the activities on the Home Front. Among the eight hours’ worth of material are items on the evacuation of children, air raids, gas mask...

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