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Edgehill 1642 (1998 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Uses reconstructions and footage of the battlefield as it is today to present an account of the battle of Edgehill of 23 October 1642.

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Naples is a Battlefield (1944 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the tasks involved in re-creating the means of livelihood and the machinery of government in a devastated....

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Voices from the Western Front (1994 Video)

Director

Andrew Johnston

Producer

Taylor Downing

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 56 min., 1996 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Interviews with survivors of the Western Front in World War 1 - veterans of the infantry, cavalry and Royal Flying Corps, accompanied by archive film footage of the battlefield and the war in the air.

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War You Don’t See, The (2010)

Subject

History; Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £6.00

John Pilger’s film is a powerful investigation into the media’s role in war. It traces the history of ‘embedded’ and independent reporting from the carnage of World War I to the destruction of...

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Wheat Rust (2012)

Director

Maurice Constant

Producer

JV Duden

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 17 minutes), Canadian $ 19.95

Every year millions of acres of wheatland on the North American continent become a battlefield, with man competing for one of his chief sources of food against a microscopic organism. Stem rust of wheat, an...

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Propaganda - War of the Mind (2000 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 48 min., 2001 sale: £9.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Looks at the part played by propaganda in World War II as governments struggled to gain the upper hand in the war away from the battlefield. Methods were sometimes less than subtle, or in some cases...

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Quest for Bannockburn, The (2014)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £34.99

Seven hundred years after one of the most significant conflicts in British history, Neil Oliver and Tony Pollard go in search of both the real and imagined Battle of Bannockburn. Based at ‘Battlefield...

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Images of War (1995 Multimedia)

Producer

Caroline Manyon

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

An investigation of World War 2, exploring the major battles, their political background and consequences. The 35 main battles are divided among five main theatres of war: Europe, the Eastern Front, the...

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Vanity Fair: The Battlefield (1987 Video)

Producer

Peter Jarvis

Subject

Film & television production

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min.

Follows the work of the visual effects designer as he sets the scene for the Battle of Waterloo in the BBC drama serialisation of Thackeray’s ‘Vanity Fair’. Shows the work of costume designers, make-up...

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Images of Conflict (2009)

aka: War Photography

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

We are bombarded on a daily basis by images of war, but there is a fine line between embedded coverage and propaganda. If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is the life of the war photographer worth?...

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