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Fall of the Romanov Dynasty, The (2002 Film)

aka: Padeniye Dinasti Romanovikh

Director

Esther Shub

Subject

FE; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £19.99

This and its companion film THE GREAT WAY are remarkable examples of early historical compilation films. After painstaking research, with Shub examining each frame of available material, they were produced...

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Freedom (1997 Video)

Producer

Sasha Stewart

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to illustrate the struggles for freedom world-wide in the 20th century. Looks at apartheid in South Africa and the triumph of Nelson Mandela, East Germany and the...

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France Libre ActualitÉs. No 15 (1944 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This issue of the post-liberation newsreel released in December 1944 shows: 1) French towns devastated during battles and deliberately destroyed by retreating Germans; 2) an indoor rally commemorates the...

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When the Lights Go on Again (2002)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 75 minutes), £12.99

Third programme in the series BRITAIN’S HOME FRONT covering the period 1943-47. Tells the story of the British people preparing for war and living through the events of the ‘Phoney War’, Dunkirk, the...

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Origins of the Cold War 1945-1950, The (1999 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

Eight unedited British newsreel stories look at the build-up to the Cold War: Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech; the Truman Doctrine speech, the Marshall Plan, Eastern Europe situation 1945-48, formation of...

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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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Film in Victorian Britain (1996 Video)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2001 sale: £19.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

A video-based package for teaching both Media and the Victorian Britain topic in KS2 history. The video is a compilation of 33 short films made between 1896 and 1905. An emphasis on actuality footage...

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Expo 58 (2014)

Director

Paul Flon; Gaston Schoukens; Maurice Lefèvre

Subject

Architecture; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), 19 Euros

Expo 58 seen through the eyes of film-makers who record their times with the fascination of the contemporary observer. The main focus is on the Atomium, the symbol of Expo 58, and also widely symbolic of the...

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Histoire du Soldat Inconnu (1959)

Director

Henri Storck

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 10 minutes), £15.00

A compilation of newsreels powerfully satirising the signing of the Kellogg Pact (1928) to outlaw war. Made in Belgium as a silent film in 1930 and later given a musical soundtrack.

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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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