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Canadian Army Newsreels (2010)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 1200 minutes), $30.00

Featuring twenty hours of footage, this 6 DVD set contains 106 newsreels filmed and produced by the Canadian Army Film Unit during the Second World War. The front-line cameramen were soldiers first and took...

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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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Now It Can Be Told (2014 Video)

aka: School for Danger

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), £19.99

Studies the work carried out during World War 2 by Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents who were trained to assist resistance groups in their fight against Hitler. Two actual British agents, Captain...

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Britain’s Railways at War (2012)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 201 minutes), £19.99

A comprehensive collection of original archive documentaries covering the wartime role of railways on the British Home Front, featuring a variety of period steam locomotives and dealing with a variety of...

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War Women of Britain: Women at War 1914-1918 (1991 Video)

Subject

History; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. st. b&w. 14, 10, 12, 10, 3, 2, 2, 4 min., 2004 sale: £18.99

Compilation of eight contemporary films from the archive of the Imperial War Museum, chosen to illustrate aspects of life and society in Britain during the First World War, and especially to show how the...

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Vietnam: The 10,000 Day War (Parts 14-26) (1980 Video)

Producer

Ron Kelly; Paul Lang; Michael Maclear; Don North

Subject

History

Distribution

Hire (U-matic - HEFVL) Sale (VHS - retail), Videocassette. U-matic. col. 13 x 30 min (HEFVL). Videocassette. VHS. 6 x ? min (retail).

Part 14: The 77-day siege of US Marines at Khe Sanh which intensifies anti-war sentiment in America. The day-by-day drama of the most widely debated battle of the Vietnam war. Part 15: The Tet Offensive as...

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Vietnam: The 10,000 Day War (Parts 1-13) (1980 Video)

Producer

Ron Kelly; Paul Lang; Ian McLeod; Don North

Subject

History

Distribution

Hire (U-matic - HEFVL) Sale (VHS - retail), Videocassette. U-matic. col. 1 x 60, 12 x 30 min. (HEFVL) Videocassette. VHS. col. 50, 6 x ? min (retail).

Part 1: A preview of the series, noting America’s shifting motivations and priorities during three decades of the Vietnam conflict, involving five US presidencies in what became America’s longest,...

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Why Democracy? (Short Films) (2007)

Subject

Development studies; Philosophy; Politics & government

Distribution

Not In Distribution

In October 2007, ten one-hour films focusing on contemporary democracy were broadcast in the world’s largest ever factual media event. Running alongside the 10 documentaries, and integral to the outreach...

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Advertising on TV (Vols 1-26) (2005)

Subject

Business studies; Media studies; Politics & government; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 55 mins each vol), $20.00 each vol

A 26-part series covering in detail, with many examples, the theory and technology behind the development of television advertising in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s. Many of the films were...

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Nation’s Health, The (2005)

Subject

History; Medical sciences; Social Studies

A six part series in which Jonathan Miller examines the development of the nation’s health since the end of the Second World War. Since the war the nation’s health has improved dramatically but the...

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