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Second World War, The (1994 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 2 x 30 min., 1996 sale: £35.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) both parts

Covers: German and Japanese war aims and calculations; massive Axis victories in Europe and Asia and the reasons for the them; momentous Russian struggle for surival; the tide turned in the Pacific and...

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Nagasaki: The Horror and Legacy of ‘Fat Man’, The World’s First Plutonium Bomb (1995 Video)

Director

Serge Viallet

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS col. 51 min., 1998 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

On 8 August 1945 America dropped its second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, marking the end of the war for Japan. Survivors, both Japanese civilians and Western POWs, tell of the morbid aftermath, the road from war...

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Crusade in Europe (6 Parts) (1994 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. 6 x 75 min., 1998 sale: £10.99 (inclusive) each part

Volume 6: ‘Overunning Germany’: Allies succeeded in dividing the German armies and capturing 350,000 German troops and the battle for Berlin had begun. General Jodl signed the surrender documentation 7...

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Rosie Newman’s Britain at War in Colour (2011)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 121 minutes), £19.99

Filmed and edited by socialite and amateur filmmaker Rosie Newman, this 1946 documentary shows members of the armed forces engaged in training exercises as well as fascinating shots of life on the Home...

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Fdr (1994 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

An examination of the life and career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the USA from 1933-1945 who led the country through the aftermath of the Great Depression and World War 2. Examines the events...

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Nazis: A Warning from History, The (1997)

Producer

Laurence Rees

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.99

Series exploring how the Nazis came to power, how they ruled, how theey trated their occupied territories and also, how a cultured nation could be responsible for such horrendous acts upon humanity. In six...

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Return to Life (1997 Multimedia)

Director

Avraham Milgram

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

Looks at the immediate aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust, emphasising the struggle of the survivors to rebuild their lives after they were liberated from the Nazi concentration camps. Builted around the themes...

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Supervolcano (2000 Video)

aka: Supervolcanos

Producer

Mark Hedgecoe

Subject

Geology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £15.99 (retail) £99.99 (BBC Active)

The year is 2020 and the world faces the ultimate threat. Not nuclear war or a terrorist attack, but the eruption of a gigantic ‘supervolcano’ simmering beneath Yellowstone Park. The last eruption of...

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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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Great War, The, Series (1964 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £ 99

A definitive history of the 1914-1918 war, narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave and employing the voice skills of other leading actors including Sir Ralph Richardson (as Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig) and...

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