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Third programme in the series BRITAIN’S HOME FRONT covering the period 1943-47. Tells the story of the British people preparing for war and living through the events of the ‘Phoney War’, Dunkirk, the...
First programme in the series BRITAIN’S HOME FRONT, covering the period 1940-42. Eyewitness accounts by ordinary British citizens tell how they coped with everyday life against a backdrop of air raid...
Ordinary British people recall the critical months starting in May 1940 when Britain faced the threat of Nazi Germany. In four parts: 1) up to the Dunkirk evacuation, showing Chruchill at work and Thora Hird...
Five 20-minute programmes using amateur film footage together with eyewitness accounts to show ways in which ordinary people filmed everyday life in Britain and Germany during the war years 1939-45: 1) The...
Uses archive film, photographs and first-hand accounts to tell the story of British farming during World War 2, when farmers had to cope with ever-increasing productivity targets coupled with shortages of...
Uses more than 300 black-and-white photographs from the ‘The Times’ archive to illustrate major events in Britain between 1930 and 1960, showing life in the Blitz, evacuation, and rationing, and the...
Uses oral history testimonies and archive footage to illustrate aspects of the social history of Britain around the years of World War 2. The material has been selected to illustrate the six themes: girls’...
Stories of people in their 60s and 70s who were bombed out of their London homes during World War 2 and who were placed in property requisitioned from the Duke of Bedford in Montague Street, near the British...
Compilation video featuring 1) Humphrey Jennings’ classic wartime film ‘Listen to Britain’ (1941, 19 min): ‘The music of a people at war - the sound of life in Britain by night and day.' Records the...
A selection of nine official British government information films portraying Britain in the 1940s: 1) Village School (1940, 11 min): a picture of Ashley Green village school in Buckinghamshire, narrated by...
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