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Thirty years after Inner Mongolia was proclaimed an Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China, a BBC team went there to see how the herdsmen of two remote communes were conforming to Chairman...
Deals with Georgi Zhukov’s peasant upbringing, early days in Moscow, progress in the Red Army, and subsequent clases with Joseph Stalin. Continues with his career in the Second World War as Stalin’s...
A portrait of the man who planned the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1971 and the forced the USA into World War 2 - a man with many personal eccentricities and above all a compulsive gambler. In...
Traces the progress of a strike in Loverpool’s docks following the Devlin Report, which advocated the abolition of casual labour. The workers take over Liverpool docks. The central figure is a...
Sir Kenneth Clark’s personal view of the development of Western civilisation, concentrating on crucial episodes in France, Germany, England, Italy and America. Against the historical background are the men...
Part of Professor Tinbergen’s research into the habits of the lesser black-backed gull, a huge colony of which was filmed on the north-east coast of England, the film demonstrates the part played by social...
Trio of BBC films looking at various aspects of English history and heritage, narrated by the poet John Betjeman. An ENGLISHMAN’S HOME (1969) takes to the skies to provide an aerial view of English houses,...
A television adaptation by Jonathan Miller for the BBC ‘Omnibus’ series, of M R James’s story of the supernatural ‘Oh, whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad’. A tale of solitude, terror and the...
Dramatised documentary on the inadequacy of welfare and housing facilities in Britain. Through a variety of circumstances a young family in 1960s’ London becomes a ‘problem’ family - Cathy’s husband...
A reconstruction of the Battle of Culloden (1746) using local people as actors. First broadcast by the BBC in 1964. An account of the campaign against the Hanoverian throne and establishment; its gradual...
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