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France ActualitÉs. No 27 (1944 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This issue of the Vichy newsreel released in June 1944 shows: 1) Franco meets Civil War veterans at Alicante; 2) Funeral of Patriach Sergins of Lithuania and Latvia after his murder by Bolshevik agents; 3)...

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Warwork News. No 50 (1944 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

'Warwork News’ was a series of short newsreels produced during World War 2 for distribution in British factories. ‘Churchill visits the front’: a report from Normandy which emphasises the great victory...

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Battles of the Somme and Ancre, The (1916 Video)

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 73, 63 min., 1999 sale: £16.99 (inclusive)

2: Official World War 1 film of the Western Front. Actual shots of men in the trenches, with images of rain and mud predominating. Includes footage of the first-ever use of tanks in battle. Piano...

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Soviet Newsreel No. 59 (June 1941): Special Issue: The Radio Broadcast by the Chairman of the Peoples’ Commissars, V M Molotov (1941 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The broadcast made by Molotov on 22 June 1941 in which he announced to the Russian people that their country had been invaded by German troops. The newsreel shows shots of factory workers and members of the...

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Liberation (1994 Video)

Director

Arnold Schwartzman

Producer

Marvin Hier; Arnold Schwartzman

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 100 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Interweaves the history of World War 2 with the story of the Holocaust. Beginning in 1942, the film combines archive footage, period music and radio broadcasts collected from archives around the world to...

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War Requiem (2008)

Director

Derek Jarman

Subject

English language and literature; History; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £19.99

Based on the life of Wilfred Owen, the poet, who died in 1918, this film is a blend of Benjamin Britten’s music, Owen’s poetry and director Derek Jarman’s visuals. The film includes wartime footage...

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France ActualitÉs. No 23 (1944 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This issue of the Vichy newsreel released in May 1944 shows: 1) Ruins of historical and religious monuments and ordinary housing throughout France ‘devastated by those who call themselves our...

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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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Whatever the Penalties (2016)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 66 minutes), £13.00

This short film tells the story of an almost forgotten gathering of conscientious objectors in World War One. They represented a small minority who defied the 1916 Military Service Act - the law that...

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Out of the Blue? (1995 Video)

Producer

Michael Peet

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Uses statistical models to explore the effect of possibly inadequate sewage disposal at sea on the well-being of swimmers, based on a study at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia. Uses a bar chart to plot the...

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