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  1. Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front (2016)

    Subject
    Film studies; History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 151 minutes), £19.99

    A selection of public information films, propaganda shorts and adverts from the BFI National Archive. Originally shown in cinemas to British audiences during the Second World War, these films served to boost...

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  2. First World War, The: Life on the Home Front in North West England (2014)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £12.00

    Footage from the North West Film Archive showing life on the home front in North West England during World War I. Clips include the the Accrington Pals, the Lancashire Fusiliers and the Cheshire Regiment...

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  3. Public Information Films of the British Home Front: The First World War (2013)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £16.99

    This release brings together a collection of information films during World War I, made in order to promote co-operation and support among civilians. More than 25 official cartoons, trailers and short films...

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  4. Britain’s Railways at War (2012)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 201 minutes), £19.99

    A comprehensive collection of original archive documentaries covering the wartime role of railways on the British Home Front, featuring a variety of period steam locomotives and dealing with a variety of...

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  5. Keep Calm and Carry on: News Reports from the British Home Front 1939-1945 (2011)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 482 minutes), £19.99

    Compilation of newsreels from the Second World War reporting on the activities on the Home Front. Among the eight hours’ worth of material are items on the evacuation of children, air raids, gas mask...

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  6. Rosie Newman’s Britain at War in Colour (2011)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 121 minutes), £19.99

    Filmed and edited by socialite and amateur filmmaker Rosie Newman, this 1946 documentary shows members of the armed forces engaged in training exercises as well as fascinating shots of life on the Home...

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  7. 40s Britain: Women and Children at War (2006)

    Subject
    History; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 84 minutes), £19.99

    A collection of war-time documentary shorts depicting the lives of women and children. Evacuees, land girls, factory workers, doughty countrywomen confronting Nazi paratroopers, and the Women’s Institute...

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  8. Our Country and the Dim Little Island (2005)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 55 mintues), £18.99

    Two films reflecting life in Britain in the 1940s.

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  9. Wartime Britain (2002)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 min), £14.95

    A collection of five short films reflecting life in Britain during World War II.

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  10. Keep Smiling Through (2002)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 90 minutes), £12.99

    Second programme in the series BRITAIN’S HOME FRONT, covering the period 1942-43. In the Summer of 1940 Britain braced itself for invasion and and endured nightly horrors of the London Blitz. The invasion...

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