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  1. 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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  2. Black Watch (2009)

    Director
    John Tiffany
    Subject
    Drama; Military Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £29.99

    The BBC TV production of the National Theatre of Scotland’s topical play, first performed at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival. Hurtling from a pool room in Fife to an armoured wagon in Iraq, BLACK WATCH is...

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  3. Know Your Enemy: Nazi Training Films for Allied Invasion (2008)

    Subject
    History; Military Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 176 minutes), £16.99

    A set of four Army training films made for British troops as a prelude to their intended invasion of mainland Europe. Each focuses on a specific area of threat showing graphically what weapons and munitions...

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  4. Sahib, The British Soldier in India, 1750-1914 (2006)

    Subject
    History; Military Science

    Audio recording of a lecture given by military historian Professor Richard Holmes, examining Indian soldiering in peace and war. He addresses the experience of ordinary soldiers, why they joined up, how...

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  5. New Lot, The (2002)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 42 min), £18.95

    An AKS training film that was lost for 50 years and rediscovered by the National Film Archive of India. Written by Peter Ustinov and Eric Ambler, it takes 5 very different new recruits, with all their vocal...

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  6. Real Dads Army (2002)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £16.95

    Four films depicting various aspects of recruiting and training the Home Guard (Dad’s Army) during World War 2.

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  7. Sapper Tasks (2002)

    Subject
    Engineering; History
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (55 minutes), £16.95

    This 1947 film reviews work of the Royal Engineers from port to front line with many examples from World War II featuring British and Commonwealth engineers. Units shown include post and airport...

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  8. Battle of the Ancre and Advance of the Tanks, The (1916 Video)

    Producer
    Geoffrey H Malins
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 67 minutes), £9.99

    Official World War 1 film of the Western Front. Actual shots of men in the trenches. No heroics, slow-moving, mundane in style and yet greatly interesting on account of the reality of the situations and the...

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