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Mrs John Bull Prepared (1918 Film)

Subject

History; Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The most extensive compilation made at the time about the role of British women in the First World War. Beginning with a fantasy sequence which shows the Spirit of Womanhood overcoming male chauvinist...

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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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Battle of Britain, The

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette CD, 90 minutes), £5.99 (cassette) £9.99 (CD)

Reminiscences of 23 men and women who were involved in the air defence of Britain, predominantly pilots but also including ground participants.

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War Comes to Kenya (1941 Film)

Director

G Johnson

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Kenya’s contribution is seen as predominantly that of the white population. Whilst the menfolk fight, the women are mobilised as drivers and nurses. Some Masai tribespeople are shown giving cash and cattle...

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Hitler’s Triumphant Return to Berlin (1940 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A special newsreel issue showing Hitler at the Maginot Line in 1940, then returning in triumph to Germany, finishing with an extraordinary mass reception by the people of Berlin.

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Warwork News. No 38 (1943 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

'Warwork News’ is a series of short newsreels produced during World War 2 for distribution in British factories. Here, Mussolini is seen after rescue by Germans from captivity. Some Italian troops fighting...

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Women’s Land Army, The (1917 Film)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A Women’s Land Army recruitment film. It compares unfavourably the idle ways of the ‘ladies of leisure’ with the patriotic endeavour of the WLA whose activities were helping to counter the U-boats’...

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Volkssturm (1944 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

In October 1944, on the anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig, Volkssturm volunteers, addressed by Himmler, prepare for final resistance. Also West and East Front sequences, including American prisoners taken...

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Defeated People, A (1946 Film)

Director

Humphrey Jennings

Producer

Basil Wright

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

About the government of the British-occupied zone of Germany. Problems of the physical and moral rehabilitation of Germany are discussed.

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Life in Nazi Germany

Subject

German studies; History

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette CD, 60 minutes), £5.99 (cassette) £9.99 (CD)

Eyewitness accounts of 11 men and women covering the impact of Nazism on daily life, race policy and civilian wartime experiences. (Does not include cencentration camp survivors.)

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