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  1. Culloden; The War Game (2016)

    Director
    Peter Watkins
    Producer
    Peter Watkins
    Subject
    History; Television studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes + 46 minutes), £19.99

    This edition contains newly remastered HD versions of Peter Watkins’ controversial films originally broadcast by the BBC. CULLODEN (1964) reconstructs the famous battle in the style of contemporary...

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  2. Nuclear War in Britain: Home Front Civil Defence Films (2012)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 284 minutes), £24.99

    A compilation of public information films made by the British government between 1951 and 1987, many of which have not been available for public viewing for many years. The DVD includes the following films:...

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  3. Nuclear Scare Stories of the Cold War (2004)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 115 minutes), £12.99

    A compilation of chilling civil defence films from the 1950s and 1960s, instructing American citizens how to survive if a nuclear war broke out.

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  4. Science and the Swastika (2004)

    Subject
    History; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 9200 minutes), £16.99

    Series looking at how the Third Reich adapted the tenets of science to its own ends. Narrated by Sebastian Faulks. 07/04: The Good German:

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  5. War Game, The (2003)

    Subject
    Drama; Media studies; Politics & government; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 130 minutes)

    Few films have caused as much controversy as Peter Watkins’ THE WAR GAME, a drama documentary made for BBC TV in 1965 about a ‘limited’ nuclear attack on Kent. Blending fiction and fact to create a...

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  6. Decision to Drop the Bomb (1996 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 85 min., 1997 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    The events surrounding President Harry S Truman’s decision in August 1945 to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a decision for which he accepted full responsibility and which stirred enduring controversy.

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  7. One Minute to Midnight: The Real Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1996 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Out of distribution

    Examines the events of the 15 days in October 1962 when Cold War tensions brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Recalled by the surviving principals and participants from all sides, including an...

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  8. Birth of the Bomb / Search for the Super (1995)

    Subject
    History; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 2 x 50 minutes), £16.99

    Two films by Peter Batty that piece together the story of the quest for an ultimate weapon, looking at how scientists and politicians in Germany, the UK, the USA and the Soviet Union battled to unleash a...

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  9. I Am Become Death (1995 Video)

    Director
    Arthur McCaig
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £50.00 (inclusive)

    Looks at the people who worked on the Manhattan Project, developing the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, New Mexico, between 1943-1945: Bob Wilson, Bob Serber, Bon Christy, Harold Agnew, Hans Bethe, Stan...

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  10. Nagasaki: The Horror and Legacy of ‘Fat Man’, The World’s First Plutonium Bomb (1995 Video)

    Director
    Serge Viallet
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS col. 51 min., 1998 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    On 8 August 1945 America dropped its second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, marking the end of the war for Japan. Survivors, both Japanese civilians and Western POWs, tell of the morbid aftermath, the road from war...

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