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  1. Public Information Films of the British Home Front: The First World War (2013)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £16.99

    This release brings together a collection of information films during World War I, made in order to promote co-operation and support among civilians. More than 25 official cartoons, trailers and short films...

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  2. Classic Affordable and Public Information Films: 1930s-1940s (2008)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 100 minutes), £32.39

    A compilation of films about the housing industry and public housing programmes in the United States. Titles include: BETTER HOUSING (1935) on the New Deal’s National Housing Act, 4 min.; HOUSING IN CHILE:...

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  3. Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front (2016)

    Subject
    Film studies; History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 151 minutes), £19.99

    A selection of public information films, propaganda shorts and adverts from the BFI National Archive. Originally shown in cinemas to British audiences during the Second World War, these films served to boost...

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  4. Charley Says: The Best Public Information Films in the World (2001)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £14.99

    More than 150 public information films made between the 1950s and 1980s by the Central Office Of Information. They were shown in the breaks between television programmes and warned the public about a range...

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  5. Power in the Land, A

    Subject
    Energy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 40 minutes), £6.00

    A film about the importance of electricity commissioned by the Electrical Trades Union.

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  6. Nuclear War in Britain: Home Front Civil Defence Films (2012)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 284 minutes), £24.99

    A compilation of public information films made by the British government between 1951 and 1987, many of which have not been available for public viewing for many years. The DVD includes the following films:...

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  7. British Air Traffic Control (2010)

    Director
    Peter Watkins
    Subject
    History; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £14.99

    A collection of archive footage and films investigating the functions, history and techniques of air traffic control procedures in the sixties and seventies, including The CONTROLLERS (1963), an early film...

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  8. Nation’s Health, The (2004)

    Subject
    Film Studies; History; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £55.00

    The late nineteenth century saw many discoveries and new technologies that transformed clinical medicine. A different kind of invention from this period came to be seen as an essential weapon in the war...

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  9. Joy of Sex Education, The (2009)

    Director
    David Rosler
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £17.75

    A collection of British sex education films. From the euphemistic to the explicit, the anthology takes the viewer through 60 years of sex education in Britain from the 1910s to the 1970s. Films included are:...

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  10. Coi Collection: Vol 1 - Police and Thieves (2010)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 296 minutes), £19.99

    The first volume in a series of DVD compilations of films made by the Central Office of Information. Established in 1946, the Central Office of Information (COI) was a successor to the wartime Ministry of...

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