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World War over - Japan Surrenders

Date released

13 Aug 1945

Series name

Warwork News

Issue no

S15/80; Paramount Issue No.: 1508

NoS ID

156798

Story no

2 / 2

The fall of Hong Kong and Singapore to the Japanese. Then the Fourteenth Army began to "beat the Japs at their own game". The part played by the US Pacific Fleet, under Admiral Nimitz. US troops land in...

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Nuit de la Verite, La (2004 Film)

aka: Night of Truth, The

Director

Fanta Régina Nacro

Producer

Claire-Agnes Lajournard; Fanta Régina Nacro

Feature film. A parable set in a fictitious West African country rent by 10 years of tribal conflict between the ruling Nayak and the rebel Bonande. The director has stated that she saw Shakespearean...

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Poland

Date released

3 Dec 1944

Series name

War Pictorial News

Issue no

187

NoS ID

156350

Story no

2 / 3

Marshal Rokossovsky watches his men cross the River Bug on the road to Lublin - under heavy enemy fire. Red Army Cavalry. Polish people welcome Russians*, together with the Polish divisions with them. Six...

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John Pilger: Documentaries That Changed the World (2007)

Director

John Pilger

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 644 minutes), £12.00

DVD set brings together twelve of John Pilger’s most hard-hitting and inspirational films. Drawing extensively on eye-witness testimony, Pilger has been a foreign correspondent and a front-line war...

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Lost Civilisations (2005)

Subject

Archaeology; Classical studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 600 minutes), £39.99

A series of ten one-hour programmes on ancient civilisations combining location filming, digital effects technology, and dramatisations to recreate rituals and events from the ancient world.

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'The Father of the Legion’

Date released

2 Feb 1928

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

858-1

NoS ID

131805

Story no

2 / 7

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Intimate pictures of Field Marshal Earl Haig whose sudden and tragic death is mourned by the whole Empire. At the Legion poppy factory." Haig talking to factory workers. [2ND SUBTITLE]:...

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Germany in the Dust: Death of a Nation

Date released

7 May 1945

Series name

Warwork News

Issue no

S15/73; Paramount Issue No.: 1480

NoS ID

156777

Story no

1 / 1

Bologna liberated - Germans surrender. General Alexander. Allied troops march through the town - greeted by delighted crowds. At Casserta Palace, near Naples, two German Generals sign unconditional surrender...

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Berry’s Way (2006 Television)

Director

Mehta Huseyin

Producer

Sue Howells

Television comedy drama. Tired of his father’s selfish behaviour and criticisms, and his insolent and indolent son who is averse to education, divorced dry-cleaner proprietor (motto - ‘no pain, no...

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White Heat (8 Parts) (1994 Video)

Director

Chris Durlacher; Adam Levy; Hugh Mason; Henry Singer

Producer

Chris Durlacher; Adam Levy; Hugh Mason; Henry Singer

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 x 50 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1999 sale: £280.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series charting the history of technology. 1 (producer, director Chris Durlacher): Examines whether future generations will learn as much about modern society from the objects we leave behind as...

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China: A Century of Revolution (3 Parts) (1989)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 3 x 120 minutes), $199.00 (all 3 partw)

Ten years in the making, this six-hour, three-part documentary series on the history of 20th century China uses archive footage and first-hand interviews to document the epic struggle of the Chinese people...

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