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Camp de Thiaroye (1987 Video)

aka: Camp at Thiaroye, The

Director

Ousmane Sembéne; Thierno Faty Sow

Producer

Mamadou Mbengue

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VH. col. 152 min., 1995 sale: £42.50 (inc. VAT +p&p)

An account of events in a Senegalese repatriation camp just before the end of World War 2, based on a historical episode. Soldiers from all over Africa who fought for the Franch and the Allies were interned...

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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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Liberation of Auschwitz, The (1994 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 55 min., £14.99 (retail)

Footage released by the Russians as prosecution evidence at the Nuremberg war crime trials. Captain Alexander Vorontsov, the only surviving cameraman from the Soviet film crew attached to the 1st Ukranian...

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Spanish Civil War, The (1972)

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £60.00

The course and major events of the Spanish Civil War including the Generals’ Revolt in July 1936, relief of the Alcazar in Toledo, defence of Madrid, collapse of the Republic in the north, Franco’s...

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South African War, The: 1899-1902 (1993 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Covers: Milner, Kruger, gold; two Boer republics humiliate the British Empire, guerilla and commando versus blockhouse and concentration camp; toll and legacy of war. Presented by Dr J R Smith with Professor...

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Britain at War in Colour (2001)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 218 minutes), £19.99

Portrays the events of World War 2 through rarely seen footage, much of it shot unofficially by servicemen and civilians as a personal record of events unfolding. Originally shown on television in 3 parts,...

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Ohm KrÜger (1941 Film)

Director

Hans Steinhoff

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A feature film about Britain’s part in the Boer War. Cecil Rhodes, Joseph Chamberlain and Dr Jameson are presented as prominent British villains. Krüger has an audience with a whisky-swilling Queen...

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War in Zimbabwe-Chimurenga, The (1978 Film, Video)

Director

Antonia Caccia

Producer

Rakhetla Tsehlana

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Film shot inside Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) and also in a transit camp in Botswana during 1977, which concentrates on the views of ordinary people, featuring interviews with black men and women from all walks of life.

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Behind the Spanish Lines (1938 Film)

Director

Sidney Cole; Thorold Dickinson

Producer

Ivor Montagu

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Begins with conditions in Barcelona which had become the seat of the Republican government in October 1937. Shows a wide range of leading Republican politicians including Aguirre, Azaña, Companys, Martínez...

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Night Will Fall (2014)

Director

André Singer

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £19.99

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had...

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