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Around the Clock in Stalingrad

Date released

20 Dec 1943

Series name

War Pictorial News

Issue no

137

NoS ID

156258

Story no

4 / 4

Rebuilding the city: tents of the workers; students of local technical college help with rebuilding; graveyard of wrecked German war materials (many being re-conditioned for use against the Germans); AA guns...

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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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Cold War, Hot Jets (2013)

Director

Simon Winchcombe

Producer

Simon Winchcombe

Subject

Engineering; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £34.99

Britain emerged from the Second World War in financial crisis, but one technological innovation provided hope for the future: a world-leading jet aviation industry. During the Cold War, the jet engine became...

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World Acclaims Red Army

Date released

14 Oct 1943

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1317

NoS ID

038863

Story no

1 / 2

First pictures of irresistible Soviet drive which has swept Nazis west of Dnieper. Graphic film despatch from eastern front shows liberation of Taman Peninsula. Report also includes decoration of Stalingrad...

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Soviet Newsreel No. 77 (December 1943): Special Issue: President Benes Visits Moscow (1943 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows Benes’ arrival (11 December) at a Moscow station where he is met by Molotov and Voroshilov and, later that day, a reception at which he is received by Kalinin. The next day an agreement between...

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Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2006)

Director

Robert Greenwald

Subject

Business studies; Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £19.99

The ethics of big business come under the spotlight in this documentary about the working practices of Wal-Mart, the world’s largest supermarket store. Owners of Asda stores in UK, this $100 billion...

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Inside Russia No.1: Fifty

Date released

1968

Series name

Look At Life

Issue no

451

NoS ID

350641

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: The background to the achievements of a people who, fifty years ago, were mainly peasants, expressed in great housing schemes, giant dams, the world’s largest hotel and the conquest of space.

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Nicaraguan Journey (1984 Film, Video)

Director

Holly Aylett; Jack Reiter; Wolf Triado

Subject

Development studies; Politics & government; Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Record of a 10-day tour of Nicaragua in May 1984 by a delegation of 12 women from Britain and America; the women came from trade union movements, from black women’s organisations and from the peace...

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Lenin: Men of Our Time (1970 Film, Video)

Producer

Patricia Lagone

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Biography of Lenin using archive footage. James Cameron says, ‘If ever there was one man of our time who transformed our time, and who will necessarily live forever in the great, terrible, prodigious and...

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