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Fishermen at War: Atlantic Trawler (1941)

Director

Ivan Scott; Frank Sainsbury; J.B. Holmes; Frank Elton

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 63 minutes), £16.33

War-time documentaries about the dangers faced in the Atlantic by merchant seamen on convoys and the contribution made to the war effort by all civilian seamen. SAILORS WITHOUT UNIFORM (1940) - The lives...

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Green for Danger (1946 Film)

Director

Sidney Gilliat

Producer

Sidney Gilliat; Frank Launder

Comedy crime film. In a rural English hospital during WWII, a postman dies on the operating table. One of the nurses states that she has proof of who the murderer is. The facetious Inspector Cockrill...

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Tunisian Victory (1943 Video)

aka: Why we Fight - Tunisian Victory

Producer

Roy Boulting; Frank Capra; Hugh Stewart

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 75 minutes), £15.99

Official British war film. Covers period from 8th November 1942 to May 1943 - the invasion of North Africa to the fall of Tunis. In 1942 the Allies launched the largest amphibious assault of the war thus far...

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Wales, Green Mountain, Black Mountain (1942 Film)

Director

John Eldridge

Producer

Donald Taylor

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An impressionistic survey of Wales at war. Shows industries revitalised by the war effort: steelworks, dockyards, quarries and pitheads at the Rhondda mines. Includes footage of Wales during the depression...

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One Continuous Take: The Kay Mander Story (2010)

Director

Kay Mander; Adele Carroll

Subject

Film & television production; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 251 minutes), £20.41

A two-disc retrospective on documentary filmmaker Kay Mander, featuring ten of her films from the 1940s along with Dr Adele Carroll’s 2001 film featuring Kay Mander, at home in Kirkcudbrightshire,...

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London in Festival Year 1951

Subject

Design; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 66minutes), £19.99

A collection of films in celebration of the 1951 Festival of Britain. Features the last films made by Humphrey Jennings - FAMILY PORTRAIT, and Richard Massingham - BRIEF CITY, written for the Observer by...

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Our Country and the Dim Little Island (2005)

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 55 mintues), £18.99

Two films reflecting life in Britain in the 1940s.

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New Britain, The (2013)

Director

Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Keene; Roy Boulting; Charles Hasse; John Page

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 79 minutes), £16.33

A collection of British wartime propaganda films made to boost optimism and showing how the armed forces and civilians stood up to the Nazi threat. THE NEW BRITAIN (1940). With great optimism, Britain...

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London Pride (2006)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £19.99

A collection of films showing the effect of the blitz on London and its people, and the plans for the post-war regeneration of the City. Includes: LONDON CAN TAKE IT, THE PROUD CITY, LONDON AIRPORT, MOVING...

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Pattern of Britain, The (2006)

Director

Ralph Keene; Ken Annakin; Charles de Latour; Humphrey Swingler

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £16.33

Four films about the farmlands of rural England made between 1944-1947, looking at the countryside after the war and how it was changing fast as old ways were dying out, In each of the films, past, present...

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