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100 Years of the Raf (2018)

aka: 100 Years of the Royal Air Force

Producer

Richard Jukes; Jones Richard

Subject

Aviation

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £7.99

Since its creation in 1918, the Royal Air Force has developed and responded to ever changing demands, and has embraced new technologies too. This documentary, narrated by Sir Martyn Lewis, celebrates a...

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They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

Director

Peter Jackson

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £9.99

Using state of the art technology to restore original archival footage which is more than a 100-years old, Jackson’s film brings to life the people who can best tell this story: the men who fought in the...

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Long Shadow (2016)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £19.99

BBC documentary with historian David Reynolds who travels Europe exploring the very long historical shadow cast by World War I. Travelling from Slovenia to the Sudetenland, and from Belfast to Berlin, he...

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Whatever the Penalties (2016)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 66 minutes), £13.00

This short film tells the story of an almost forgotten gathering of conscientious objectors in World War One. They represented a small minority who defied the 1916 Military Service Act - the law that...

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I was There: The Great War Interviews (2014)

Director

Detlef Siebert

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

In the early 1960s, the BBC, in partnership with the Imperial War Museum, conducted a series of interviews with First World War veterans, for the television series THE GREAT WAR. Most of these interviews...

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First World War in Poetry (2014)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 70 minutes), £10.00

Selection of poems written about the First World War read by actor Rory Kinnear. Among the poets represented are Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, Thomas Hardy, Laurence Binyon,...

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First World War: 1914: Voices from the BBC Archive (2014)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD), £10.99

Audio compilation of clips taken from the BBC archive relating to the First World War. Amongst the items are troops of the British Expeditionary Force recalling the exhausting retreat from Mons, the success...

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Great War Poets, The (2014)

Director

Bob Carruthers

Subject

History; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 46 minutes), £11.00

Documentary about the First World War poets, including Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon and A.E.Housman.

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British Home Front, The: First World War 1914 - 1918 (2014)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 153 minutes), £13.95

For the first time ever on DVD, a comprehensive impression of life on the British Home Front during the First World War and the very varied roles and responsibilities shouldered by British citizens during a...

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First World War, The: Life on the Home Front in North West England (2014)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £12.00

Footage from the North West Film Archive showing life on the home front in North West England during World War I. Clips include the the Accrington Pals, the Lancashire Fusiliers and the Cheshire Regiment...

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