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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: The Storming of Iwo Jima

Date released

22 Mar 1945

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

824A

NoS ID

013403

Story no

2 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Storming of Iwo Jima. DESCRIPTION: For seventy two days before the American landings planes had been bombing the heavily fortified base on Iwo Jima. Marines of the 4th and 5th...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Germans Chaos West of the Rhine

Date released

19 Mar 1945

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

824

NoS ID

013401

Story no

2 / 2

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: German Chaos West of the Rhine. DESCRIPTION: The Allies have closed up to the Rhine all the way from Arnhem to within a mile of Coblenz. This has involved very heavy fighting by part of...

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David Starkey - Monarchy Series 1 (2007)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 219 minutes), £19.99

The first series of Dr David Starkey’s programmes examining the British monarchy and its relationship with its subjects over the centuries. He begins in the Dark Ages with Alfred the Great and goes up to...

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Vietnam: The 10,000 Day War (1980 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 660 minutes), $39.49

A boxed set comprising the whole of the 26-part series first transmitted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1980 and later transmitted by Channel 4 in the UK. The series explains how and why the war...

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King John (1899 Film)

aka: Scene - ‘King John’ - Now Playing at Her Majesty’s Theatre, A Beerbohm Tree, The Great British Actor

Director

William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson

Four scenes from the Her Majesty’s Theatre production of King John, one of which survives. The descriptions quoted are from the copyright records in The National Archives: THE BATTLEFIELD NEAR ANGIERS -...

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War and the Camera with commentary by Lionel Gamlin: Russia Strikes Back

Date released

14 Dec 1942

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

706

NoS ID

012544

Story no

3 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Russian News Reel. DESCRIPTION: In Russia advances are being made on the Stalingrad front as the Red Army prevent the Nazi’s from taking the city. Further north forces under General...

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Great Commanders, The (6 Parts) (1993)

Director

Phil Grabsky

Producer

Phil Grabsky

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 270 minutes), £40.00

Looks at the lives and achievements of famous military personalities to investigate the nature of leadership. Filmed on location and illustrated with material from international archives and museums, each...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: How They Came Back

Date released

1 Nov 1943

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

752

NoS ID

012887

Story no

2 / 2

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: How They Came Back. DESCRIPTION: 1939 ... The first big prisoners exchange of the war has taken place in Gothenburg, Sweden. Some eight hundred Germans were handed over there (many more...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Libyan Clean-Up

Date released

30 Nov 1942

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

704

NoS ID

012526

Story no

1 / 2

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: ‘Clean Up in Libya’. DESCRIPTION: The historic record of the Eighth Army’s sweep across the desert gives an ever-to-be-remembered impression of the great British victory....

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