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  1. India Marches (1941 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Based around the training of the 15th Punjab regiment, this film extols the benfits of life in the British army. Importantly the harmonious mixing of different Indian cultural traditions is emphasised. The...

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  2. BBC Four online archive

    Date
    13 Sep 2011, 11:23
    Author
    Cathy Grant
    Post Type
    Post

    [caption id="attachment_9790" align="alignright" width="244" caption="www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections"][/caption] A collection of  programmes from the BBC archives about the British Army, featuring...

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  3. Real Dads Army (2002)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £16.95

    Four films depicting various aspects of recruiting and training the Home Guard (Dad’s Army) during World War 2.

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  4. Left of the Line (1944 Film)

    Producer
    David MacDonald
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A short pictorial record of the British and Canadian liberation armies fighting from the beaches to Brussels, which was liberated on 3 September 1944. Note: The film does not attempt to depict the campaign...

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  5. Desert Victory: The Battle of El Alamein (1943)

    Director
    Roy Boulting
    Producer
    David MacDonald
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 60 minutes), £14.99 (QL/retail)

    Documentary, with some re-enacted material. Official British war film. The story of the British Eighth Army’s victory at El Alamein in the autumn of 1942, and its advance across nearly 1400 miles of desert...

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  6. Sahib, The British Soldier in India, 1750-1914 (2006)

    Subject
    History; Military Science

    Audio recording of a lecture given by military historian Professor Richard Holmes, examining Indian soldiering in peace and war. He addresses the experience of ordinary soldiers, why they joined up, how...

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  7. New Lot, The (2002)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 42 min), £18.95

    An AKS training film that was lost for 50 years and rediscovered by the National Film Archive of India. Written by Peter Ustinov and Eric Ambler, it takes 5 very different new recruits, with all their vocal...

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  8. Liberation of Rome, The (1944 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A survey of the Allied Italian campaign from the first landing on 3 September 1943 to the liberation of Rome on 4 June 1944.

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  9. Know Your Enemy: Nazi Training Films for Allied Invasion (2008)

    Subject
    History; Military Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 176 minutes), £16.99

    A set of four Army training films made for British troops as a prelude to their intended invasion of mainland Europe. Each focuses on a specific area of threat showing graphically what weapons and munitions...

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  10. Burma Victory (1944 Video)

    Director
    Roy Boulting
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Special loan (film - IWM Dept of Film), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 63 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Official British war film depicting the Burma campaign, remembered bitterly by veterans and ‘the forgotten war’ - from 1942 to the capitulation of the Japanese in Rangoon. When the Japanese invasion of...

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