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  1. German Concentration Camps Factual Survey: Special Archival Edition (2017)

    Producer
    Sidney Bernstein
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £29.99

    This is the first ever DVD / Blu-ray release of Imperial War Museum’s German Concentration Camps Factual Survey. This hugely important film documents the liberation of Belsen and other concentration camp...

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  2. Now It Can Be Told (2014 Video)

    aka: School for Danger

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), £19.99

    Studies the work carried out during World War 2 by Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents who were trained to assist resistance groups in their fight against Hitler. Two actual British agents, Captain...

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  3. 40s Britain: Skills for Britain (2011)

    Director
    Kay Mander; Adele Carroll
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 133 minutes), £16.33

    A collection of Kay Mander’s wartime training films. ONE CONTINUOUS TAKE (2001) A biography of Kay Mander, her life and work. Produced and directed by Dr. Adele Carroll. TRANSFER OF SKILL (1940) Craftsman...

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  4. British Public Information Films 2 DVD Set (2007)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 0, 180 minutes), $14.99

    A compilation of 22 UK public information films made between 1945 and 1952. Titles are: A Warning to Travellers (Five Pounds in Notes); Berlin Airlift; Brief City; Charley’s March of Time; Charley...

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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. 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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  7. Listen to Britain 1 (1950 Video)

    Subject
    History; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 46 min., 2001 sale: £9.95 (inclusive)

    Compilation video featuring 1) Humphrey Jennings’ classic wartime film ‘Listen to Britain’ (1941, 19 min): ‘The music of a people at war - the sound of life in Britain by night and day.' Records the...

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  8. Listening to Britain: A Jennings Trilogy (1946 Video)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 69 min., 2004 sale: £18.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

    A compilation of three classic World War 2 documentaries by Humphrey Jennings: THE HEART OF BRITAIN, LISTEN TO BRITAIN and A DIARY FOR TIMOTHY. (See individual titles for synopses.)

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  9. Total War in Britain (1945 Video)

    Director
    Alexander Shaw
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20 min.

    The story of the total mobilisation of Britain’s manpower and industrial resources for war, in the four years from Dunkirk to the invasion of western Europe. The film is based on an offical British...

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  10. True Glory, The (1945)

    Director
    Garson Kanin; Carol Reed
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £14.00

    Uses the actual voices of British and American soldiers as commentary to describe the campaign from D-Day, in Normandy to the fall of Berlin, including the Falaise Gap, Caen, Arnhem, the liberation of Paris...

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