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News from North America

Date released

26 Jun 1966

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

66/51

NoS ID

112130

Story no

7 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

The worst tragedy in the history of hydroplane racing - three men killed as their craft shatters at 150 mph.

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500 Nations (2006)

Director

Jack Leustig

Producer

Kevin Costner

Subject

Anthropology; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 390 minutes), £29.99

An eight part American television documentary series which explores the history of the indigenous peoples of North and Central America, from pre-Colombian times, through the period of European contact and...

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Indian Romeo and Juliet (1912 Film)

Director

Lawrence Trimble

Fiction film setting Romeo and Juliet as a story of North American tribes where the Hurons and the Mohicans are sworn enemies. Perhaps the first feature film to appropriate a Shakespeare story. The Vitagraph...

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Holiday 261 (1980)

Genre

Documentary; Interview; Music

Di Latham presents Holiday 261, focusing on holidays in the USA in America’s bicentennial year. Includes interviews in the USA with Reg Pycroft from Jetsave about fly drive holidays. Travel writer Eunice...

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Research and Publications

Date

4 May 2018, 11:06

Author

BUFVC-user43468

Post Type

Page

The project team are currently working on a number of outputs from the research project (2017). These include special issues in the journals Feminist Media Histories and Women’s History Review, and...

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Now That the Buffalo’s Gone (1969 Film, Video)

Director

Ross Devenish

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The history of the American Indian from the first white settlers to 1969.

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Mathew, The: Rediscovering North America (1997 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 75 min.

A celebration of the 500th anniversary of John Cabot’s voyage of discovery from Bristol to Newfoundland in North America and follows the original voyage of the ‘Mathew’, from the buiding of the...

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Champlain (196 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An impression of the life of one of the founders of French Canada. There is no re-enacting in the film, only a mixture of recent photography of scenery and people.

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Rommel Goes West & US Troops Land in North Africa

Date released

16 Nov 1942

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

42/92

NoS ID

099721

Story no

3 / 4

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

The 8th Army on the road that leads to Benghazi and beyond. On their way they meet with some resistance from Rommel’s men that are left. Bombed, battered and burning equipment is evidence of the wholesale...

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Remembering Wounded Knee (1992 Video)

aka: Re-Creation of Wounded Knee, The

Director

Paul Englar

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

How white Americans and a native American commemorated the 100th anniversary of the battle of Wounded Knee in which Sioux Indians were massacred by the US Army in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

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