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  1. Home Front Britain with Jim Carter (2011)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings; Ruby Grierson; Jack Lee; Brian Desmond Hurst
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 270 minutes), £19.99

    The six-part documentary series, Home Front Britain With Jim Carter, looks at the British home front during World War II. Presented by British actor Jim Carter, the series explores the archives of British...

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  2. Secrets of War (2011)

    Director
    Alan Beattie; Charles Proser
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1300 minutes), £18.00

    This award-winning series explores lesser-known aspects of the twentieth century’s major conflicts, offering insights into the hidden world of covert operations. Based on information that had been only...

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  3. Feeding the Nation (2011)

    aka: Yesterday’s Farm: East Anglia and Beyond

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £11.99

    At the outbreak of World War I, farming was on the brink of ruin. By the 1960s, it was thriving once more. Events in Britain and beyond changed agricultural life. After half a century of debts, economic...

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  4. To Secret Rosies (2011)

    aka: Rosies: The Female Computers of Wwii

    Director
    LeAnn Erickson
    Subject
    History; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.00

    In 1942 soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a secret military program was launched to recruit female mathematicians who would become human ‘computers’ for the US military. Top Secret...

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  5. Marcus Gheeraerts II: Elizabethan Artist (2011)

    Subject
    Art; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 35 minutes), £14.99

    Marcus Gheeraerts II (1561/2-1636) was one of the great portrait artists of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he painted many of the leading Britons of the time,...

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  6. War of the World (2010)

    Subject
    History

    A 6-part series of 60-minute programmes in which Professor Niall Ferguson presents a major history of the 20th century. He argues that the underpinning forces behind the conflicts of the last century were...

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  7. They Filmed the War in Colour (2010)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £16.99

    This DVD features two feature-length documentary films, using only rare colour footage shot during the Second World War which offers a new and vivid perspective on the conflict. Using footage from public...

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  8. Aldous Huxley: The Spoken Word (2010)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 74 minutes), £9.95

    This CD contains recordings from the BBC archives spanning nearly thirty years. On it, Aldous Huxley discusses a range of topics, including the causes of war and the effects of drug-taking on the writing...

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  9. 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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  10. 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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