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The Western Front. Latest Pictures from Nijmegen and Dunkirk, including

Date released

12 Oct 1944

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

1124

NoS ID

064323

Story no

7 / 8

Extras

1 commentary sheet

Dunkirk Armistice.

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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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Evacuation of Dunkirk

Date released

12 Oct 1944

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

1486

NoS ID

147970

Story no

4 / 5

Civil population of Dunkirk evacuated prior to the allied assault on the port.

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Now Dunkirk

Date released

11 Oct 1944

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1421

NoS ID

039320

Story no

5 / 6

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Last and most memorable in the chain of channel ports Dunkirk is evacuated by its 23,000 civilians. Hitherto unpublished pictures taken from German reel illustrate the early story of the Beaches.

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Dunkirk Heroes Go Back on Tenth Anniversary

Date released

5 Jun 1950

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2010

NoS ID

042407

Story no

8 / 8

Veterans of epic wartime evacuation sail to Dunkirk on tenth anniversary commemoration.

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Let’s Get at Him Say BEF

Date released

6 Jun 1940

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

967

NoS ID

037313

Story no

3 / 3

Newsreel pictures, unexampled in motion-picture history, portray whole story of evacuation. Cameras record troops leaving blazing Dunkirk as Nazi planes almost fill sky.

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Pilgrimage To Dunkirk

Date released

4 Jul 1957

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

2814

NoS ID

157399

Story no

1 / 7

Extras

1 commentary sheet

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Bevin Signs Anglo-French Treaty

Date released

10 Mar 1947

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1672

NoS ID

040452

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Pact of mutual aid in event of further aggression by Germany is signed in Dunkirk Prefecture by Foreign Ministers of Britain and France.

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Dunkirk Still Holds Out

Date released

15 Mar 1945

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

1530

NoS ID

148142

Story no

2 / 4

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Dunkirk Still Holds Out

Date released

27 Nov 1944

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

1499

NoS ID

148029

Story no

4 / 5

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