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  1. Private Joseph Kay (2018)

    Director
    Matt Kay
    Subject
    History; Literature

    Jackie Kay’s poem Private Joseph Kay is dedicated to her grandfather who fought at the Somme. This short film, made by award-winning director Matthew Kay, responds to the poem and the themes it raises. [7...

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  2. Mustine (2017)

    Subject
    Chemistry; Medical sciences

    Podcast. This programme explains how the use of sulfur mustard, or mustard gas - a blister-causing agent used as a weapon during World War I - led to some of the earliest trials for anti-cancer drugs. [7...

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  3. These Dangerous Women (2015)

    Director
    Charlotte Bill
    Subject
    History; Women’s studies

    This documentary celebrates and commemorates the 100th anniversary of the International Congress of Women that took place on the 28 April 1915, when 1,300 women from 12 countries, warring, neutral and...

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  4. Watford’s Quiet Heroes (2014)

    Subject
    History; Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30), £13.00

    The stories of three men who refused to fight in WW1, and society’s attitudes raising questions about patriotism, politics and religion. The film and additional material are suitable as an educational...

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  5. 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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  6. Edward Thomas - Selected Poems (2010)

    Director
    Barnaby Edwards
    Subject
    English language and literature

    A collection of works by the celebrated First World War poet Edward Thomas (1878-1917). The 25-poem selection includes ‘Adlestrop’, ‘Roads’ and ‘In Memoriam [Easter 1915]', plus a complete and...

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  7. Behind the Veil of War: The First World War/Qur’An Leads the Way to Science, The (2006)

    Subject
    History; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £12.99

    Two programmes from the series based on the works of the Turkish author and thinker Harun Yahya, who promotes a creationist view of Islam. BEHIND THE VEIL OF WAR - the 20th century was the bloodiest age in...

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  8. Hell on Earth (1931)

    aka: Niemandsland

    Director
    Victor Trivas; George Shdanoff
    Subject
    History

    The story of five men, an Englishman, a Frenchman, a German, a Russian Jew, and a Black American who meet on the battlefield of World War I. Setting aside their prejudices, they refuse to kill each other and...

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