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Look at Life: Volume 2 - Military (2010)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 450 minutes), £10.80

Forty-five films from the LOOK AT LIFE series, produced by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation every week for screening in Odeon cinemas between 1960 and 1969. Digitally restored from the...

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Coastal Command (1942 Video)

Producer

Ian Dalrymple

Subject

History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col 73 min.

A dramatised wartime documentary presenting the work of the officers and the ordinary men and women of the Coastal Command in the RAF. Follows the fortunes of the Sunderland Flying Boat T-Tommy as it patrols...

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Keep Calm and Carry on: News Reports from the British Home Front 1939-1945 (2011)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 482 minutes), £19.99

Compilation of newsreels from the Second World War reporting on the activities on the Home Front. Among the eight hours’ worth of material are items on the evacuation of children, air raids, gas mask...

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Target for Tonight (1941 Film, Video)

Director

Harry Watt

Producer

Ian Dalrymple

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Illustrates the work of the Bomber Command in World War 2. Shows what it was like to fly on some of the earliest Wellington bomber raids agains Nazi Germany, following the fictional ‘F for Freddie’ on a...

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Images of the Past, Series (1995)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

Selected photographs, drawings and designs from the collections of the Public Record Office. 1 (1995): Victorian advertising and commercial art - posters and show cards used for advertising the products and...

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Minis Make Money (1973 Video)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 76 min., 2000 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

Seven selected official British government information films showing how Britain has been portrayed over the last 60 years: 1) Opus (1967, 27 min): an impressionistic survey of the arts in Britain in the...

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War Women of Britain: Women at War 1914-1918 (1991 Video)

Subject

History; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. st. b&w. 14, 10, 12, 10, 3, 2, 2, 4 min., 2004 sale: £18.99

Compilation of eight contemporary films from the archive of the Imperial War Museum, chosen to illustrate aspects of life and society in Britain during the First World War, and especially to show how the...

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Great Events of the 20th Century (1999 Video)

aka: Greatest Events of the 20th Century, The

Subject

History

Distribution

DVD

A collection of newsfilm covering 101 newsworthy events of the 20th century. Items are: 1) Opening credits; 2) Queen Victoria’s funeral; 3) Wright brothers’ first flight; 4) Suffragette dies under...

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