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  1. the GATHERING STORM

    Date released
    1950
    Series name
    The March of Time 15th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    352305
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: discussion of the military readiness of U.S.A. and preparations for a possible World War 3.

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  2. War Against the Zulus, The (1996 Video)

    aka: Zulu Wars 1879 - The Disaster at Isandlwhana

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min.

    Uses battle reconstructions from the film ZULU DAWN, further reconstructions and re-enactments, dramatised eye-witness accounts, and 3-D mapping techniques to tell the story of the slaughter at Isandlwhana,...

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  3. Shakespeare’s Birthday (1933 Radio)

    Series
    Wireless Military Band, The

    Radio programme. The Wireless Military Band conducted by B. Walton O’Donnell plays the Overture to Sullivan’s Macbeth and Suite from Henry VIII, German’s ‘Three Dances’ from As You Like It,...

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  4. The Chile Coup: One Collection, Multiple Approaches

    Date
    28 Mar 2017, 13:42
    Author
    Linda
    Post Type
    Page

    Historical Background In 1970 the Marxist democrat Salvador Allende was elected by popular vote. As head of the Unidad Popular (a coalition of communists and socialists) Allende faced opposition from the...

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  5. No End in Sight (2008)

    Director
    Charles Ferguson
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes), £14.99

    The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling...

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  6. View from Moscow, The (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Roger Penfound
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Gives the Soviet view of the nuclear weapons dilemma. Filmed in Moscow, it shows senior Soviet spokesmen, academics, journalists and military representation, talking about and responding to key issues in the...

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  7. Weapons Procurement (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Roger Penfound
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    If the development of armaments by the superpowers is to be managed, then it is necessary to understand the forces which drive it. Professor Graham Allison, of Harvard University, discusses two rival...

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  8. El Salvador: Another Vietnam (1981 Video)

    Director
    Glenn Silber; Tete Vasconcellos
    Producer
    Glenn Silber; Tete Vasconcellos
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 50 min.

    Investigates the origins of the civil war in El Salvador and the involvement, historical and contemporary, of the USA. For fifty years, El Salvador was ruled by an oligarchy supported and effectively...

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  9. Battle of Chile, The (3 Parts) (1973 Video)

    Director
    Patricio Guzman
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 320 minutes), $440

    A portrait of the passions of a people divided and a nation on the brink of civil war. Patricio Guzman shot the whole of his three-part film with a team of six people constantly on the spot with as many...

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  10. Wings: The Jet Age (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Peter Bucknall
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 54 min.

    Traces the history of manned flight from the earliest attempts to the modern supersonic jet aircraft, concentrating on the jet aircraft, which became operational by 1945. Follows the rapid development in...

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