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Chinese Send Peace Envoys to Communists

Date released

25 Apr 1949

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1894

NoS ID

041669

Shortly before shelling of British frigate Amethyst Chinese National Government sends delegates to arrange peace terms with Communists.

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Act of Killing, The (2013)

Director

Joshua Oppenheimer

Producer

Werner Herzog; Errol Morris

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 122 minutes), £12.99

THE ACT OF KILLING is a documentary about Anwar Congo, a gangster who, as leader of a death squad, committed mass murder during the killings of 1965 - 1966, which took place following the failed coup of the...

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Communists Claim New Victories

Date released

9 Dec 1948

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

1920

NoS ID

150367

Story no

1 / 8

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Hong Kong Ready as Communists Reach Border

Date released

20 Oct 1949

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

1648

NoS ID

067902

Story no

1 / 6

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Shanghai Encircled: Last Britons Leave

Date released

9 May 1949

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

49/37

NoS ID

102910

Story no

5 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

As Chinese Communists cut the last remaining escape route from Shanghai, confusion in the city increases. More Britons leave, while those who remain attend the funeral of the sailors killed aboard the...

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Shanghai Under Red Control

Date released

24 Oct 1949

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

49/85

NoS ID

103151

Story no

6 / 7

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

First pictures from Shanghai since the Communists took over.

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People in the News

Date released

6 Apr 1950

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

50/28

NoS ID

103394

Story no

5 / 8

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

General Clare Chennault - former China air commander - looks over seventy-one American transport planes, awarded by a local court to the communists.

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Suchow Falls!

Date released

9 Dec 1948

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1855

NoS ID

041401

Story no

1 / 8

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek flies to Washington, appealing for US aid in China’s extremity. First pictures from Suchow show city only a few hours before capture by Communists.

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US Airmen Freed

Date released

15 Aug 1955

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1367

NoS ID

020277

Story no

2 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Us Fliers. DESCRIPTION: The eleven American airmen, imprisoned for two and a half years by the Chinese Communists, have crossed into Hong Kong to freedom. SHOTLIST: GV of airman walking...

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Wounded from Korea

Date released

27 Nov 1950

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1121

NoS ID

016791

Story no

1 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Wounded From Korea. DESCRIPTION: At Lyneham (an RAF station in Wiltshire) the first wounded to be flown back from Korea have arrived, men of the Middlesex and the Argyll and Sutherland...

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