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  1. Imitation Game, The (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Richard Eyre
    Producer
    Richard Eyre
    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £7.99

    Ian McEwan’s play in which the character Cathy, a young middle-class woman, joins the ATS during the Second World War in 1940. The play has been described by Sight & Sound (November 2018), as an excellent...

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  2. New Britain, The (2013)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Keene; Roy Boulting; Charles Hasse; John Page
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 79 minutes), £16.33

    A collection of British wartime propaganda films made to boost optimism and showing how the armed forces and civilians stood up to the Nazi threat. THE NEW BRITAIN (1940). With great optimism, Britain...

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  3. Battle for Music (1943)

    Director
    Donald Taylor; Len Lye; Ralph Keene; Ralph Bond; John Banting; Dylan Thomas; Charles de Latour
    Subject
    History; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 186 minutes), £14.99

    Dramatised documentary about the trials of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II. The year is 1939. Following the liquidation of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the players form a new...

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  4. English Garden, The. Part 1: A Tapestry of Herbs and Roses (To 1660) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min.

    The story of great gardens in England and Wales from Roman times to the 1980s. This programme opens with Sir John Gielgud in the Jubilee Gardens, London, remarking that the English garden often reflected the...

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  5. World at War, The. Vol 3 (6 Parts) (1973 Video)

    Director
    Michael Darlow; John Pett
    Producer
    Michael Darlow; John Pett; Ben Shephard; Phillip Whitehead
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 6 x 52 min.

    Part 1: The Anglo-American advance from Sicily as the Big Three meet (producer Ben Shephard, writer David Wheeler). Part 2: The Burma campaign. Depicts the differing Japanese and Western attitudes towards...

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  6. World at War, The. Vol 2 (6 Parts) (1973 Video)

    Director
    Ted Childs; Hugh Raggett; Martin Smith
    Producer
    Peter Batty; Ted Childs; Martin Smith
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 6 x 52 min.

    1 DESERT - THE WAR IN NORTH AFRICA 1940-1943 - North Africa, the battle of El Alamein and Operation Torch (producer/writer Peter Batty). 2: Stalingrad, the symbol of the Soviet Union’s stubborn resistance,...

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  7. Secrets of War (2011)

    Director
    Alan Beattie; Charles Proser
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1300 minutes), £18.00

    This award-winning series explores lesser-known aspects of the twentieth century’s major conflicts, offering insights into the hidden world of covert operations. Based on information that had been only...

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  8. Great Palace, The: The Story of Parliament (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £360.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

    Series looking at the history and working life of the British Parliament. 1: Uses models to recreate the 1000-year history of the royal palaces at Westminster and shows Westminster Hall, built by Richard...

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  9. History of Britain by Simon Schama, A (Set 2) (2002)

    aka: Simon Schama - A History of Britain

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 940 minutes), £59.99

    The last eight episodes episodeds of Simon Schama’s 15-part history of Britain. The full 15 parts are available together on DVD with extras including two interviews with Simon Schama plus satellite link...

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  10. Pattern of Britain, The (2006)

    Director
    Ralph Keene; Ken Annakin; Charles de Latour; Humphrey Swingler
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £16.33

    Four films about the farmlands of rural England made between 1944-1947, looking at the countryside after the war and how it was changing fast as old ways were dying out, In each of the films, past, present...

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