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  1. Blitz Street (2010)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £15.99

    To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Blitz, this remarkable four-part series reveals what it was like to live through the devastation and psychological torment of wartime Britain. A specially built row...

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  2. World at War: The Ultimate Restored Edition (2010)

    Director
    Ted Childs; Martin Smith
    Producer
    Peter Batty; Ted Childs; Martin Smith
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1949 minutes), £79.99

    Narrated by Laurence Olivier and first broadcast in 1973, this 10 disc edition contains all 26 episodes of the original series. Please note that this version is presented in an aspect ratio of 16:9, which...

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  3. Curse of the Swastika (2010)

    Director
    Fred Watts
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), £14.99

    This British Pathe documentary from 1940, illustrates the insidious rise of the Nazi Party from its post World War One origins through Adolf Hitler’s assumption of the leadership of the party and eventual...

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  4. Canadian Army Newsreels (2010)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 1200 minutes), $30.00

    Featuring twenty hours of footage, this 6 DVD set contains 106 newsreels filmed and produced by the Canadian Army Film Unit during the Second World War. The front-line cameramen were soldiers first and took...

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  5. Nuremberg Trials, The (2009)

    aka: Hitler’s Executioners

    Producer
    Felix von Podmaniczky
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 78 minutes), £3.99

    Account of the rise and fall of the Third Reich culminating in the Nuremberg trials of 1945, which provided a final opportunity for the German leaders to defend the beliefs which had led to what the Allied...

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  6. Britain at War (2009)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 840 minutes), £26.99

    This collection of ten documentaries features testimonies of remaining veterans from the army, navy and airforce and civilian organisations who lived through WW2. The programmes contain rare archive film and...

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  7. Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930 - 1950 (2008)

    Director
    Paul Rotha; Arthur Elton; Basil Wright; Humphrey Jennings
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 720 minutes), £34.99

    A collection of 40 films from the British documentary movement during its period of greatest influence. These films capture the spirit and strength, concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before,...

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  8. Dear Kitty: Remembering Anne Frank (2008)

    Director
    Wouter van der Sluis
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 51 minutes), £7.99

    Miep Gies was an employee of the Frank family business and was one of the helpers who watched Anne grow up. It was Miep who found Anne’s diary on the floor of the hiding place after her arrest. More than...

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  9. 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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  10. Two Versions of Hell (2008)

    Director
    James T Hong
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 27 minutes), $295.00

    This is a multi-award winning documentary about Unit 731, Japan’s secret World War II biological and chemical weapons facility in the Chinese town of Harbin where biological weapons were developed during...

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