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A compilation of thirty programmes from ‘Topical Budget’ (1911-1931), one of the major Brigish newsreels of the silent era. It illustrates early newsreel form and gives an entertaining portrait of the...
Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to illustrate large-scale disasters of the 20th century. Covers the sinking of the ‘Titanic’, the Tenerife air crash, the mud-slide in Aberfan in South Wales in...
Three programmes presenting historical film in context. 1: Explores how British films in the 1930s promoted the cause of Empire, and how the 1940s documentary and newsreel films began to express an...
This issue of the Vichy newsreel released in May 1944 shows: 1) Ruins of historical and religious monuments and ordinary housing throughout France ‘devastated by those who call themselves our...
A brief evocation of the 1914-18 war, made up of original extracts of newsreels of the period. French commentary.
An account of the genocide of the Armenians by the Turks in 1915. Includes eye-witness accounts of American survivors and uses archival footage.
Second programme in the series BRITAIN’S HOME FRONT, covering the period 1942-43. In the Summer of 1940 Britain braced itself for invasion and and endured nightly horrors of the London Blitz. The invasion...
This and its companion film THE GREAT WAY are remarkable examples of early historical compilation films. After painstaking research, with Shub examining each frame of available material, they were produced...
Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to illustrate the struggles for freedom world-wide in the 20th century. Looks at apartheid in South Africa and the triumph of Nelson Mandela, East Germany and the...
This issue of the post-liberation newsreel released in December 1944 shows: 1) French towns devastated during battles and deliberately destroyed by retreating Germans; 2) an indoor rally commemorates the...
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