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German Scene, The (1990 Video)

Subject

German studies; Politics & government

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 14 min.

An edition of the monthly newsreel ‘Deutschlandspiegel’ dedicated entirely to the reunification celebrations of 3 Oct 1990. Shows interviews with people on the day and a summary of events leading up to...

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Media Screen Roundup - April 2013

Date

10 May 2013, 10:44

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. For those readers who enjoy CSI (and all...

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Mephisto (1981 Film)

Director

István Szabó

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Feature film. A study of Nazi Germany loosely based on personalities of the time. A provincial actor in 1920s and 1930s Germany finds his success is interrupted by Nazism. Based on the novel by Klaus Mann.

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Germany’s Sense of Itself and the World’s Sense of Germany (2015)

Subject

History; Politics & government

A video podcast from the London Review of Books. Franziska Augstein, Süddeutsche Zeitung; Norbert Röttgen, Chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Foreign Affairs; Neal Ascherson, the Observer’s Central...

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Munich 72 (1997)

Director

Wilfried Huismann

Subject

German studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), £4.99

German Chancellor Willy Brandt bowed to Israeli pressure and decided against a diplomatic solution with the help of Egypt, that had already been worked out. The hostages were sacrificed for a political...

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Wismut, Die (1993 Film)

Director

Volker Koepp

Subject

German studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Focuses on Wismut, the uranium mining company set up by the Soviet Union in 1946 as part of Germany’s war reparations. Throughout the GDR’s existence, extremely large amounts of enriched uranium were...

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Traitors to Hitler (1979 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 62 min.

Documents the course and failure of the plot to assassinate Hitler, showing material on the trials which Goebbels, the propaganda chief, ordered to be filmed with hidden cameras.

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Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, The (1975 Film)

Director

Volker Schlöndorff; Margaretha von Trotta

Subject

Politics & government; Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Feature film about a woman who becomes the target for police surveillance and exploitative news coverage after spending a night with a suspected terrorist. Based on the novel by Heinrich Böll.

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Itn Roving Report: Flashpoint Berlin - 1957-1963 (1957)

Subject

History; Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 118 minutes), £11.99

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, ITN filmed a series of news items abroad called ‘Roving Report’; most remain unseen since their initial broadcast. This collection brings together seven films reporting...

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Our Hitler: A Film from Germany (2007)

aka: Hitler: Ein Film aus Deutschland and Hitler: A Film from Germany

Director

Hans Jürgen Syberberg

Subject

Drama; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 450 minutes), $79.95

"The most extraordinary film I have ever seen," says Susan Sontag of director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg’s epic nightmare rumination on Adolf Hitler, the cultural mechanisms underlying his mythic rise, and the...

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