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Operation Barbarossa: The Russian German War (2015)

Producer

Jerry Lawton

Subject

History; Military Science

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 136 minutes), £12.99

First shown on Canadian television in 1995, a 2-DVD set giving an account of the events that unfolded between the Russians and the Germans on the Eastern Front during World War II. The lives of tens of...

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Last Words - The Battle for Arnhem Bridge (2015)

Director

Roger Chapman

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 85 minutes), £12.99

An account of The Battle of Arnhem through the testimonies of the British veterans and Dutch civilians who were there. "Last Words" tells the story of the brutal and heroic battle that took place in...

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Decent One, The (2015)

Director

Vanessa Lapa

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 96 minutes), $22.69

On May 6th 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Himmler family home in Gmund Germany where they discovered hundreds of private letters, documents, diaries and photographs. The film makes use of these...

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Turned Toward the Sun (2015)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £6.98

Documentary about the true-life story of British writer and poet Micky Burn. Born in Mayfair in 1912, his father worked for the Royal family. He became the lover of the communist spy Guy Burgess, and would...

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Only the Dead (2015)

Director

Michael Ware

Subject

History; Politics & government

Documentary by Australian journalist Michael Ware which tells the story of the insurgency led by militant Islamist Abu Musab al Zarqawi during the Iraq War through footage filmed by Ware during the war.

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Missing Picture, The (2014)

Director

Rithy Panh

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £13.99

In this documentary, Rithy Panh uses archival footage and clay figures to recreate the terrible acts that Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge committed under the dictatorship of Pol Pot between 1975 and 1979.

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War & Peace (2014)

aka: War and Peace

Subject

Philosophy; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), £65.00

This DVD features four short films specifically designed to assist teachers in delivering dynamic lessons on the ethics of war and peace. The films are: JUST WAR, HOLY WAR, CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION and...

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Majority Starts Here, The (2014)

Director

Lode Desmet

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), 6.99 Euros

In BIRN’s thought-provoking and sometimes emotional documentary film, six young people from six different countries travel across the Balkans together, discovering how nationalism, ethnic tensions and...

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First World War in Poetry (2014)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 70 minutes), £10.00

Selection of poems written about the First World War read by actor Rory Kinnear. Among the poets represented are Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, Thomas Hardy, Laurence Binyon,...

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Unknown Known, The (2014)

Director

Errol Morris

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes), £11.99

Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris presents a portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, who served as George W. Bush’s Secretary of Defense and was the principal architect of the Iraq War. Rather than conducting a...

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