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Paris

Date released

25 Sep 1944

Series name

War Pictorial News

Issue no

177

NoS ID

156329

Story no

1 / 1

The inside story of the FFI. Paris prepares to rise against the Nazis; on the surface, however, all is quite. Then the underground organization rises up, tears down posters erects barricades. Monsieur...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: France - The Days of Fulfillment

Date released

28 Aug 1944

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

795

NoS ID

013202

Story no

2 / 2

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: France - Days of Fulfillment. DESCRIPTION: The Maquis, the French Resistance, have been playing a full part in the liberation of France. In Chartres they were in action alongside the...

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The Shadow of the Eagle [Part 2] (1985)

Padraig Coyle traces the conflict in Europe following Hitler’s rise to power through some of the soldiers and civilians whose lives were changed forever by Hitler’s dream of world domination. Among those...

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Report on Greece

Date released

1946

Series name

The March of Time 11th Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

352261

Story no

1 / 1

The March of Time synopsis: The film recalls the dark days of 1941 when, in spite of the valiant stand made by the Greek Army, the last Allied base in Europe was eventually invaded by the Axis. But though...

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Rome, Open City (1993)

aka: Roma Citta Aperta

Subject

History; Italian studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £15.99

Often seen as the true beginning of neo-realism with its documentary-style imagery and the authenticity of its performances, Rossellini’s classic tells the story of resistance under German occupation....

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Fall of Berlin, The (1995 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 75 min., 1995 sale: £14.99

A documentary film on the fall of Berlin in 1945, using Russian archive footage. Covers Churchill visiting the Western Front, the American bridgehead on the Elbe at Magdeburg, the Luftwaffe attacking allied...

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West Front War Report

Date released

23 Apr 1945

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

45/33

NoS ID

100691

Story no

3 / 3

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Various studies of German POWs in a camp at Worms. General Eisenhower inspects a concentration camp where atrocities were committed and after this visit appealed to British MPs to see the evidence and make a...

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Germany: The Other Story (1991 Video)

Director

Mogniss H Abdallah; Ken Fero

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 hire: £20.00 1995 sale: £40.00

Germany’s black and migrant communities speak out about the increasing racism in the ‘new’ unified Germany, about how the anti-immigrant policies of the state threaten them and about how they are...

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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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Silence de la Mer, La (1949)

Director

Jean-Pierre Melville

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £19.99

The debut film of Jean-Pierre Melville, Le SILENCE DE LA MER is a landmark in French films about World War II, made shortly after Melville himself was demobilised from the Resistance and based on the novella...

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