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  1. Film Unfinished, A (2010)

    Director
    Yael Hersonski
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £14.99

    At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply "Ghetto," this footage quickly became...

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  2. 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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  3. I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba) / Siberian Mammoth (2007)

    aka: Soy Cuba

    Director
    Mikhail Kalatozov; Vicente Farraz
    Subject
    Film studies; Politics & government; Spanish studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 230 minutes), £8.99

    A 2-disc set. Disc 1 : I AM CUBA, partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society. Moving from city to country...

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  4. World War II Propaganda Cartoons (2006)

    Subject
    Film Studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 93 minutes), $9.99

    A collection of US animated films from World War II that use ideology, comedy and stereotypical imagery for propaganda purpose. Includes Bugs Bunny in ANY BONDS TODAY and BUGS BUNNY NIPS THE NIPS; Warner...

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  5. Dylan Thomas: The War Films Anthology (2006)

    Subject
    Film Studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 106 minutes), £15.99

    The world-renowned poet Dylan Thomas made a little-known but valuable contribution to Britain’s war effort scripting powerful propaganda films for the Ministry of Information. This anthology collects...

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  6. Close Quarters (2002)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (75 min), £14.99 inc

    A 1943 feature-length propaganda documentary about routine British submarine patrols and action in the North Sea off the coast of Norway. Based on a true story, using real Royal Navy submariners as the cast....

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  7. Race in the Twentieth Century (2000 Video)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £14.90 (+VAT +p&p)

    Three programmes presenting historical film in context. 1: Explores how British films in the 1930s promoted the cause of Empire, and how the 1940s documentary and newsreel films began to express an...

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  8. Women in the Twentieth Century (2000 Video)

    Subject
    History; Media studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £14.90 (+VAT +p&p)

    Three programmes presenting historical film in a critical context, seeking to challenge the ‘one view’ interpretation of history. The programmes ask questions about who produced the films, when, why and...

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  9. Burma: Railway of Death (1997 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 45 min., 1997 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    The story of the building of the Burma-Thailand railway by British prisoners of war during World War 2, combining the recollections of ex-prisoners who were involved with Japanese propaganda films of the time.

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  10. Strictly Propaganda (1991 Film)

    aka: Kinder, Kader, Kommandeure

    Director
    Wolfgang Kissel
    Subject
    German studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The story of the 40 years of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as seen through a compilation of East German propaganda films, with clips shoing Walter Ulbricth and Erich Honecker, and the Wartburg and...

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