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MacDonalds invents fast food and Detroit designer Harley Earl comes up with exuberant cars more like ‘jukeboxes on wheels’; the Russians shock the Americans by beating them into space with Sputnik. The...
Series on the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, combining reconstructions, archive footage and documentary evidence to focuson the turbulent relationship between communist Russia and the West. In five...
A 4-part series looking at the history and evolution of the weapons and machines that shaped the last century. Video running time approximately 80 minutes.
Footage from British Movietone newsreels and elsewhere. Shows air, road and rail crashes, buildings collapsing, fires, floods, tornadoes and earthquakes. Air crashes include: the Hindenburg explosion,...
Major events of the 20th century as seen in news footage from British Pathe and the BBC. In 13 sections covering: royalty; conflict; behaviour; disasters; 20th-century icons; transport; politics; health;...
In July 1998, producers at 40 local and regional BBC radio stations began interviewing 6,000 people from all backgrounds, ranging in age from 4 to 107. The aim was to capture the experience of the last...
Looks at post-World War 1 conflict in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, covering the Vietnam war 1956-73: America’s involvement and the outcomes of the 1956 Geneva conference, ‘Americanisation’, strategies...
A collection of newsfilm covering 101 newsworthy events of the 20th century. Items are: 1) Opening credits; 2) Queen Victoria’s funeral; 3) Wright brothers’ first flight; 4) Suffragette dies under...
Clips from football events. Includes cup finals and internationals, the tragedies of Ibrox and Munich, Arsenal in the 1930s, and Manchester United in the 1968 European Cup Final at Wembley.
Uses archive footage and sound recordings to explore Russian life under Josef Stalin. Covers: Stalin’s leadership struggle with Trotsky and his rise to power; the collectivisation of agriculture and...
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