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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. Royal Air Force at War, The: The Unseen Films, 1940 - 1944 (2014)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 329 minutes), £19.99

    This 3 disc collection of 24 training and public information shorts was filmed during the war and includes films on a variety of subjects. There are training films about technical matters (such as how to arm...

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  3. Scotland’s X-Files (2013)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 99 minutes), £14.99

    From the archive of the Imperial War Museums, rare and unseen World War II propaganda films made to inform the public of Scotland’s role in the war effort. SCOTLAND SPEAKS (1940): The role of all Scots in...

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  4. New Britain, The (2013)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Keene; Roy Boulting; Charles Hasse; John Page
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 79 minutes), £16.33

    A collection of British wartime propaganda films made to boost optimism and showing how the armed forces and civilians stood up to the Nazi threat. THE NEW BRITAIN (1940). With great optimism, Britain...

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  5. 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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  6. December 7th (2012)

    Director
    John Ford; Gregg Toland
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 81 minutes), £12.99

    John Ford and Greg Toland’s docudrama about the December 7th 1941 attacks on Pearl Harbour was made at the behest of the American military, and then censored by the War Department for being too...

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  7. 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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  8. South African Propaganda Films of the Apartheid Era: Selection IV (2012)

    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), £28.00 (individual rate)

    During the apartheid era, the South African Information Service launched a campaign of propaganda and disinformation aimed at the Western powers, which it considered its natural allies against what it called...

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  9. Soviet Influence, The: From Turksib to Nightmail (2011)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 163 minutes), £19.99

    In the early 1930s, a small number of Soviet propaganda films were shown in Britain that excited filmmakers such as John Grierson, Paul Rotha and Basil Wright - luminaries of the British documentary film...

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  10. Red Menace, The (2010)

    Director
    R. G. Springsteen
    Subject
    History; Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC), $12.49

    A classic dramatised anti-communist propaganda film, made in 1949. When a down-on-his-luck ex-G.I. named Bill goes to town to beef about being the victim of a land sale swindle, the commies who overhear him...

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