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India Marches (1941 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Based around the training of the 15th Punjab regiment, this film extols the benfits of life in the British army. Importantly the harmonious mixing of different Indian cultural traditions is emphasised. The...

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Film & Video Censorship in Modern Britain

Date

17 Sep 2012, 17:00

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Film & Video Censorship in Modern Britain by Julian Petley (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), 240 pages. ISBN: 978-0748625383 (hardback), £75; ISBN: 978-0748625390 (paperback), £24.99 About the...

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They Stand Ready (1956 Video)

Director

Frank Bundy

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. b&w. col. 19 min., 1996 sale: £19.95 (+p&p +VAT)

A recruiting film showing national servicemen posted to the Royal Armoured Corps taking part in tank manoeuvres in Germany.

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Burma Victory (1944 Video)

Director

Roy Boulting

Subject

History

Distribution

Special loan (film - IWM Dept of Film), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 63 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Official British war film depicting the Burma campaign, remembered bitterly by veterans and ‘the forgotten war’ - from 1942 to the capitulation of the Japanese in Rangoon. When the Japanese invasion of...

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Storm over Asia (1928 Video)

aka: Potomok Chingis-Khana

Director

Vsevolod I Pudovkin

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD

Set in Mongolia under the rule of British occupational forces, tells the story of a young trapper who appears to be the long-lost descendant of Genghis Khan. The people plan to set him up as Prince Genghis...

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Police Tapes, The (1977 Film)

Director

Steve Morrison; Alan Segal; Malcolm Southern

Subject

Social welfare; Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A group of British policemen from Birmingham are shown excerpts from the American television programme THE POLICE TAPES, which shows New York police at work in the Bronx. They discuss the likelihood of...

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British Car Transplants? (1992 Video)

Subject

Economics; Politics & government

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Asks why the Japanese have chosen the UK as their European base for their new transplants (foreign car manufacturers located within North America or Europe) and why the much longer established American...

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Empire Warriors: The British Empire at War 1945-47 (2006)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 369 minutes), £19.99

A documentary focussing on four key wars fought at the end of the British Empire, featuring original archive and news footage together with dramatic reconstructions of key events and first-hand accounts from...

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Journey’s End (1988 Video)

Director

Michael Simpson

Producer

Shaun Sutton

Subject

Drama; History

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 109 min.

Drama by R C Sheriff of life in the trenches showing World War 1 through the eyes of a group of British officers.

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Look at Life: Volume 2 - Military (2010)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 450 minutes), £10.80

Forty-five films from the LOOK AT LIFE series, produced by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation every week for screening in Odeon cinemas between 1960 and 1969. Digitally restored from the...

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