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Target for Today (194 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 92 min., 2004 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

A record of the US Eighth Air Force raid on Nazi Germany; it shows how the targets were chosen and how intelligence and mission briefings were passed on to the individual airfields.

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Britons at War 3 (2001)

aka: Welcome to Britain, A

Subject

History; Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £14.99 (inclusive)

A WELCOME TO BRITAIN was made to explain funny money, warm beer, driving on the wrong side of the road, and other British customs to apprehensive young GIs arriving in war-time Britain. Starring Burgess...

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Remembering Wounded Knee (1992 Video)

aka: Re-Creation of Wounded Knee, The

Director

Paul Englar

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

How white Americans and a native American commemorated the 100th anniversary of the battle of Wounded Knee in which Sioux Indians were massacred by the US Army in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

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Over Paid, Over-Sexed and over Here

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

" Paid, Over-sexed and Over Here" contains two films made to welcome US troops to Britain in 1943. "A Welcome to Britain" features Burgess Meredith, Beatrice Lillie and Bob Hope. "Letter from Ulster"...

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Scotland’s X-Files (2013)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 99 minutes), £14.99

From the archive of the Imperial War Museums, rare and unseen World War II propaganda films made to inform the public of Scotland’s role in the war effort. SCOTLAND SPEAKS (1940): The role of all Scots in...

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Night Will Fall (2014)

Director

André Singer

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £19.99

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had...

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You Lucky People (1949 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Retail outlets Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 68 min., 2004 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

A selection of nine official British government information films portraying Britain in the 1940s: 1) Village School (1940, 11 min): a picture of Ashley Green village school in Buckinghamshire, narrated by...

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Your Job in Great Britain (2006)

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes), £12.99

From World War Two onwards, thousands of American service personnel were posted to Great Britain. Before they came, they were shown films designed to familiarise themselves with the country and its...

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International Terrorism Since 1945 (2009)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 26 X 26 minutes), £195.00 each £3,295.50 the series

From the devastation of 9/11 to the horror of the London bombings, acts of terrorism have left their mark across the world. Authoritative, balanced and gripping, the series investigates the motives, morals...

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Frank Capra’s Why we Fight (1942)

Director

Frank Capra

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 403 minutes), £24.99

Forceful propaganda on the aims of democracy contrasted with fascism. Liberties are taken with the material but a good example of the best resources of Hollywood directed towards propaganda and patriotic...

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