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[SUBTITLE]: "Men who have fought fiercest battles of history for world’s freedom." French troops march past camera. Generals shake hands with troops on parade.
During the French Revolution the new republic saw mathematics as a tool to be used in its service. Describes some of the revolutionary mathematics and the developments that were to arise from it. Centres...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Paris Remembers the Storming of the Bastille. DESCRIPTION: Storming of the Bastille is remembered by all good republicans. SHOTLIST: Shots of the marchpast including the Colonial troops.
Takes as its theme the question of how France was treated in the newsreels as an ally of Great Britain - during the last year of peace and the first year of World War II, as a potential, then an actual, and...
A documentary produced in 1947 by the US Signal Corps, which had unparalleled access to combat film shot by Allied cameramen and to Nazi footage captured after the war. It concentrates on the experiences of...
[SUBTITLE]: "The most picturesque pageant in history: the March of the Allies under the Arc de Triomphe."
Wrecked church marks the path of General Dempsey’s Second Army advancing on Geilenkirchen, ruined in bombardment. American sappers unearth German box mines which were laid to hamper our advance. The troops...
Uses the actual voices of British and American soldiers as commentary to describe the campaign from D-Day, in Normandy to the fall of Berlin, including the Falaise Gap, Caen, Arnhem, the liberation of Paris...
An account of World War 1, looking at the events of the war and its shattering effects on people and society, examining politcal and diplomatic developments, state and military figures, political...
Our Kind of Town. Keith Howell hosts this episode (Old Soldiers Never Die?) in which 84 year-old World War I survivor Charlie Garrard(?) shares his recollections of the War. Rose Coombs, Special Collections...
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