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  1. Expo 58 (2014)

    Director
    Paul Flon; Gaston Schoukens; Maurice Lefèvre
    Subject
    Architecture; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), 19 Euros

    Expo 58 seen through the eyes of film-makers who record their times with the fascination of the contemporary observer. The main focus is on the Atomium, the symbol of Expo 58, and also widely symbolic of the...

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  2. Expotopia: The Belgian World’s Fairs (2014)

    Subject
    Architecture; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), 19 Euros

    The Brussels World’s Fair of 1958 was an important moment in the postwar history of Belgium. It was also an important monument in honour of a modern utopian era which was to bring peace and reconciliation...

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  3. British Home Front, The: First World War 1914 - 1918 (2014)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 153 minutes), £13.95

    For the first time ever on DVD, a comprehensive impression of life on the British Home Front during the First World War and the very varied roles and responsibilities shouldered by British citizens during a...

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  4. Night Will Fall (2014)

    Director
    André Singer
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £19.99

    When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had...

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  5. British Train Disasters, 1914 - 1975 (2013)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 145 minutes), £14.99

    This is a compilation of newsreel reports from the British Movietone News archive. It is a comprehensive round up of items reporting on 76 disasters, mostly from the era of steam locomotion, with causes...

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  6. British Circus, The: 1898 - 1972 (2013)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 181 minutes), £19.99

    This compilation of films presents a comprehensive overview of the British Circus starting with 1898 footage of the Barnum and Bailey Circus arriving in Sunderland. Many circus companies are subsequently...

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  7. 1956: A Year to Remember (2013)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 58 minutes), £7.99

    Selection of news stories from British Pathe newsreels for 1956. Stories about the national humilation triggered by the Suez Crisis feature prominently as do items on Britain becoming home to the world’s...

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  8. Visions of Africa: Colonial Cinema I. Films from Central Africa, 1940s - 1960s (2012)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 56 minutes), £28.00 (individual rate)

    Collection of films mostly made by government of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, during the 1940s, 19550s, and 1960s. Contents include the following films: Mary’s Lucky Day (Lux toilet soap commercial); The Box...

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  9. Curse of the Swastika (2010)

    Director
    Fred Watts
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), £14.99

    This British Pathe documentary from 1940, illustrates the insidious rise of the Nazi Party from its post World War One origins through Adolf Hitler’s assumption of the leadership of the party and eventual...

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  10. Canadian Army Newsreels (2010)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 1200 minutes), $30.00

    Featuring twenty hours of footage, this 6 DVD set contains 106 newsreels filmed and produced by the Canadian Army Film Unit during the Second World War. The front-line cameramen were soldiers first and took...

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