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  1. Sacrifice at Pearl Harbor (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Roy Davies
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Tells the story surrounding the crucial months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, from the breaking of the vital Japanese naval code by the British more than two years before to the...

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  2. To Secret Rosies (2011)

    aka: Rosies: The Female Computers of Wwii

    Director
    LeAnn Erickson
    Subject
    History; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.00

    In 1942 soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a secret military program was launched to recruit female mathematicians who would become human ‘computers’ for the US military. Top Secret...

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  3. Isoroku Yamamoto, Grand Admiral, Imperial Japanese Navy (197 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. U-matic. col. 60 min.

    A portrait of the man who planned the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1971 and the forced the USA into World War 2 - a man with many personal eccentricities and above all a compulsive gambler. In...

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  4. Breaking the Codes (1999 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, 2 videocassettes. VHS. col/b&w. 145 min., 1999 sale: £19.99 (inclusive) (pair)

    Uses archive footage and interviews to relate the story of how the codes of the German fleet were cracked during World War 1. Examines codebreaking in World War 2: Bletchley Park - Station X - where the...

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  5. World at War, The: Vol 1 (5 Parts) (1973 Video)

    Director
    Peter Batty; David Elstein; Hugh Raggett
    Producer
    Peter Batty; David Elstein; Jeremy Isaacs
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 417 minutes), £24.99

    The first six programmes from the seminal 26-part series first shown in 1974, preceded by a programme on the making of the series. 1 THE MAKING OF THE WORLD AT WAR - The story behind the production process...

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  6. Road to War, The (8 Parts) (1989 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £320.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

    Series examining the two decades leading up to World War 2, looking at events from the points of view of each of the main protagonists, incorporating eye-witness accounts, interviews with historians, and...

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  7. Great Events of the 20th Century (1999 Video)

    aka: Greatest Events of the 20th Century, The

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    DVD

    A collection of newsfilm covering 101 newsworthy events of the 20th century. Items are: 1) Opening credits; 2) Queen Victoria’s funeral; 3) Wright brothers’ first flight; 4) Suffragette dies under...

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