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Women’s Land Army, The (1917 Film)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A Women’s Land Army recruitment film. It compares unfavourably the idle ways of the ‘ladies of leisure’ with the patriotic endeavour of the WLA whose activities were helping to counter the U-boats’...

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Dig for Victory (2006)

Subject

Agriculture; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £16.99

A documentary about Britain’s ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign of the Second World War. Launched in 1939, the campaign encouraged men, women and children to cultivate their gardens, local parks and...

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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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40s Britain: Women and Children at War (2006)

Subject

History; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 84 minutes), £19.99

A collection of war-time documentary shorts depicting the lives of women and children. Evacuees, land girls, factory workers, doughty countrywomen confronting Nazi paratroopers, and the Women’s Institute...

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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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Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993 Video)

Director

Alanis Obomsawin

Producer

Wolf Koenig; Alanis Obomsawin

Subject

Anthropology; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 119 min.

The native film-maker Alanis Obomsawin’s account of the confrontation between the Mohawk Indians and the police and Canadian army in the summer and autumn of 1990, placing it in the larger context of the...

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No Easy Walk (3 Parts) (1987 Video)

Director

Bernard Odjidja

Producer

J Edward Milner

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 3 x 60 min.

Part 1 uses archival newsreel footage and interviews to trace the history of Ethiopia from 1896, when the Ethiopian army defeated the Italians, to the post-war setting up of the Organisation for African...

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Memoirs of Women Who Went to War, The (2003)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 58 minutes), £10.00

Eye-witness accounts by women who contributed to the British war effort during World War 2. Includes the Royals, the WAAF, the WRNS, the ATS, the WVS, the AFS, Air Raid Wardens, Civil Defence, Women’s...

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Dunkirk (2017)

Director

Christopher Nolan

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes), £9.99

Director Christopher Nolan’s fictionalised account of the battle and mass evacuation of over 300,000 Allied troops from the French beaches of Dunkirk at the start of World War II. The story unfolds on...

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Feeding the Nation (2011)

aka: Yesterday’s Farm: East Anglia and Beyond

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £11.99

At the outbreak of World War I, farming was on the brink of ruin. By the 1960s, it was thriving once more. Events in Britain and beyond changed agricultural life. After half a century of debts, economic...

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