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Hitler’s Bomb (1992 Video)

Producer

David Sington

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

In 1939, as Europe perpared for war, the Nazis led the world in the race for the atomic bomb. Yet six years later it was the Americans who dropped the first nuclear bomb. Did scientific errors rob Hitler of...

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The Grand Assault

Date released

28 Dec 1944

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1443

NoS ID

039422

Story no

1 / 1

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

1944 sealed the fate of both Germany and Japan. After trying years of preparation we shattered the Atlantic wall in the west and carried the outer defences of the enemy in the Far East. Russia gave the...

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The Royal Navy Bombards Capuzzo and Bardia

Series name

War Pictorial News

Issue no

3

NoS ID

155973

Story no

3 / 3

Alexandria Harbour - battleships and destroyers of the Allies, including the battleship "Queen Elizabeth". Ships make for Capuzzo and Bardia. The attack on Bardia harbour: naval guns firing, appearance of...

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Camp de Thiaroye (1987 Video)

aka: Camp at Thiaroye, The

Director

Ousmane Sembéne; Thierno Faty Sow

Producer

Mamadou Mbengue

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VH. col. 152 min., 1995 sale: £42.50 (inc. VAT +p&p)

An account of events in a Senegalese repatriation camp just before the end of World War 2, based on a historical episode. Soldiers from all over Africa who fought for the Franch and the Allies were interned...

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Images of the Soviet Union at War 1941-1945 (1990)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £60.00

Explores the role played by the British newsreels in creating and reflecting the growth of pro-Russian feeling in Britain during the second world war. When the Soviet Union was attacked by the Germans in...

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Victory at Sea (1952)

Director

M Clay Adams

Producer

Henry Saloman

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 686 mins), £59.99

A survey of the naval-military highlights of World War 2 as shown on NBC in 1952. Fear, courage and suffering of both sides are handled vividly and realistically. Original musical score by Richard Rodgers....

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War of the World (2010)

Subject

History

A 6-part series of 60-minute programmes in which Professor Niall Ferguson presents a major history of the 20th century. He argues that the underpinning forces behind the conflicts of the last century were...

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Your Job in Great Britain (2006)

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes), £12.99

From World War Two onwards, thousands of American service personnel were posted to Great Britain. Before they came, they were shown films designed to familiarise themselves with the country and its...

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Asia Raja (1945 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A propaganda film made by the Japanese with an Indonesian soundtrack to emphasise Japanese military achievements. The message is that the Japanese army does not act aggressively but only to defend Japan or...

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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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