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Harbour Goes to France, A (1944 Film)

Subject

Engineering; Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Archive copy in the Imperial War Museum. The story of ‘Mulberry’, a prefabricated harbour larger than Dover Harbour, designed, tested and built in Britain, towed across the English Channel, and set down...

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Soviet Newsreel Nos. 58-59 (September 1943) (1943 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Items include the first Moscow-Kharkov train for two years leaves the Kursk terminus; a tribute to the Kousbass coalminers; Moscow citizens harvest their allotments; Russian cameraman on the Leningrad front...

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Stalingrad2 (1943 Film)

aka: Story of Stalingrad, The

Director

L Varlamov

Producer

A Ruznetsov; L Varlamov

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Photographed by 15 Russian Army cameramen, the film traces the course of the siege of Stalingrad to the final Russian victory and the surrender of Field Marshal von Paulus. Roman Karmen is reported to have...

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Unternehmen Kreta (1941 Film)

aka: Operation Crete

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A campaign film on the invasion of Crete. Because the loss of life was so heavy on this occasion Hitler never again used airborne troops for a major invasion. This newsreel gives a completely different...

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Everybody’s Business (1917 Film)

Producer

Ralpy Dewsbury

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Ralph Dewsbury was released from the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 in order to make this film for the Ministry of Food. It is a featurette in which Mr Briton steadfastly refuses to tighten his belt but is...

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I was a Fireman (1942 Film, Video)

aka: Fires Were Started

Director

Humphrey Jennings

Producer

Ian Dalrymple

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £15.99

One day in the life of an Auxiliary Fire Service unit in the London Blitz. This is the full version of the cinema classic FIRES WERE STARTED, which captured the mood of a Britain under siege. Using real...

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German Concentration Camps Factual Survey: Special Archival Edition (2017)

Producer

Sidney Bernstein

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £29.99

This is the first ever DVD / Blu-ray release of Imperial War Museum’s German Concentration Camps Factual Survey. This hugely important film documents the liberation of Belsen and other concentration camp...

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Warwork News. No 3 (1942 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

'Warwork News’ is a series of short newsreels produced during World War 2 for distribution in British factories. ‘British enter France’: This account of the combined operation against Dieppe relies...

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Tempesta Sui Balcan (1941 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Celebrates Italy’s use of air power during the Balkan offensive. Footage of bombing missions, a jubilant commentary listing targets successfully destroyed, and a lively if somewhat odd musical soundtrack...

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Il Dottor Churkill (1941 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A cartoon portraying Churchill as a Jekyll and Hyde figure. In the vaults of the spooky Bank of England Churchill mixes solutions of democracy, fraternity and liberty to produce a concoction which turns him...

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