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Return to Dunkirk

Date released

Aug 1950

Series name

Mining Review 3rd Year

Issue no

12

NoS ID

345669

Story no

4 / 4

BFI Summary - Two miners return to Dunkirk on the 10th anniversary. BFI synopsis: Ray Brown and John McColl from Chislet Colliery (Kent) travel to Dunkirk in the converted lifeboat Salvador captained by...

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Palestine (3 Parts) (1978 Video)

Producer

Richard Broad

Subject

History

Distribution

Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 3 x 90 min.

Part 1 covers the history of Palestine from c.1914 to c.1939. Part 2 traces the history of Palestine from c.1939 to 1946. Part 3 covers the years from 1947 through the end of the British Mandate and the...

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Henry at Agincourt (1939 Radio)

Producer

Val Gielgud

Leslie Banks performs scenes from Henry V, which, as Radio Times programme listings remind its wartime readers "contains some of the most stirring lines in English literature" (3 November 1939, p. 3).

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Going to War 1939-45: Film, History and the Second World War

Date

20 Jul 2010, 15:54

Author

bufvclinda

Post Type

Post

This year the annual Winter Conference of the Institute of Historical Research focuses on the most filmed historical phenomenon of modern times, the Second World War. Hosted together with the Imperial War...

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W.B. Yeats, Poetry 1919-1939 (1989)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 58 min)

Yeats lived through one of the most turbulent periods of Irish history, from the downfall of Parnell to the foundation of the Irish nation state. Presents both the historical context and Yeats’ own...

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All the World’s a Stage (1926 Radio)

Radio broadcast. Shakespeare actor Frank Benson talks about his stage memories.

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River Clyde from Source to Sea (2 Parts) (1987 Video)

Producer

Michael Leonard; Janet McBain

Subject

Technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w & col. 45 min.

Part 1: A 1939 film, complete with commentary, about the importance of the Clyde and Clydeside industries. Part 2: six thematic sections which could be used in geography, history or social studies.

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Julius Caesar (1939 Radio)

Producer

Val Gielgud

Radio adaptation produced by Val Gielgud. Henry Ainley performs as Mark Antony in the Forum scene from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

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Ode on Dedicating a Building to Shakespeare (1937 Radio)

Producer

Felix Felton

Radio broadcast of the ode written by David Garrick, with music by Arne, for the Stratford-upon-Avon Jubilee of 1769. Julian Herbage conducts The Boyd Neel String Orchestra and The BBC Singers. With Ion...

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Jak Byc Kochana (1965 Film)

aka: How to Be Loved

Director

Wojciech Jerzy Has

Producer

Jozef Krawkowski

Feature film. On a plane bound for Paris, a successful radio actress (Barbara Krafftowna) recalls the night in 1939 when she was to debut as Ophelia, with the man she loved playing Hamlet (Zbigniew...

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