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Mustine (2017)

Subject

Chemistry; Medical sciences

Podcast. This programme explains how the use of sulfur mustard, or mustard gas - a blister-causing agent used as a weapon during World War I - led to some of the earliest trials for anti-cancer drugs. [7...

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Behind the Veil of War: The First World War/Qur’An Leads the Way to Science, The (2006)

Subject

History; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £12.99

Two programmes from the series based on the works of the Turkish author and thinker Harun Yahya, who promotes a creationist view of Islam. BEHIND THE VEIL OF WAR - the 20th century was the bloodiest age in...

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Call to Arms, A: Propaganda and Rearmament in the 1930s (1985)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £60.00

Examines the selling of rearmament in Britain prior to the advent of World War 2. Traces the story of British rearmament and sheds new light on the methods by which the Government used the newsreels to...

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Winter War in Its European Context, The (1974)

Director

George Brandt

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £60.00

Deals with the character of Soviet-Finnish relations after the Second World War in comparison with other European neighbours of the Soviet Union, and examines the Winter War of 1939-40. First part considers...

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Japan and China: The Unforgotten War (2006)

Subject

Economics; History; Politics & government

Distribution

DVD

Just a few sentences in a Japanese history textbook in 2005 sparked the biggest protests China had seen since 1989. The subject of those sentences— the Nanjing Massacre —occurred during World War II, but...

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War of the World (2010)

Subject

History

A 6-part series of 60-minute programmes in which Professor Niall Ferguson presents a major history of the 20th century. He argues that the underpinning forces behind the conflicts of the last century were...

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Radio Gallery: Programme 6 - Propaganda (2006)

Subject

History; Media studies

This exhibition explores the uses of the radio as a tool for propaganda during times of ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ war. It begins in World War II with a compilation of German and Italian propaganda aimed at...

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Images of America 1937-1939 (1996)

Producer

Peter Bell

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 29 minutes), £60.00

Illustrates the various ways in which British newsreels on the eve of World War 2 presented propaganda concerning the USA’s international role. Drawing on the archives of Gaumont British, British Movietone...

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Hell on Earth (1931)

aka: Niemandsland

Director

Victor Trivas; George Shdanoff

Subject

History

The story of five men, an Englishman, a Frenchman, a German, a Russian Jew, and a Black American who meet on the battlefield of World War I. Setting aside their prejudices, they refuse to kill each other and...

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Death on Delivery (1990)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £17.25

1990 documentary which looks at the post-Cold War situation in the arms trade with regard to the reduction in the size of the armies of NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries. As a result arms manufacturers...

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