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End of Empire
directed by Guo Fangfang; produced by Mashizan Masjum, fl. 2004, Four Square Productions and Crest Communications Production (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002, originally published 2001), 1 hour 5 mins
This film tells the harrowing story of the Japanese occupation of Singapore from 1941-45. Archival film as well as fascinating interviews with two historians, Professors A. Jayathurai and Brian Farrell, relate the tragedy of this important theater of war. But it is the story of Alexander Colburn a young Scotsman w...
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directed by Guo Fangfang; produced by Mashizan Masjum, fl. 2004, Four Square Productions and Crest Communications Production (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002, originally published 2001), 1 hour 5 mins
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This film tells the harrowing story of the Japanese occupation of Singapore from 1941-45. Archival film as well as fascinating interviews with two historians, Professors A. Jayathurai and Brian Farrell, relate the tragedy of this important theater of war. But it is the story of Alexander Colburn a young Scotsman who had recently signed on for a four-year stint as a pharmacist in the bustling colonial city that gives the dramatic history a persona...
This film tells the harrowing story of the Japanese occupation of Singapore from 1941-45. Archival film as well as fascinating interviews with two historians, Professors A. Jayathurai and Brian Farrell, relate the tragedy of this important theater of war. But it is the story of Alexander Colburn a young Scotsman who had recently signed on for a four-year stint as a pharmacist in the bustling colonial city that gives the dramatic history a personal dimension. Instead of enjoying a brilliant career in Singapore, Colburn witnessed its swift and violent end, as well as the symbolic end of the British Empire. In the 1930s it was widely believed that Singapore was an impregnable fortress. When the well-trained and equipped Japanese invaded Northern Malaya in 1941 shortly after Pearl Harbor, they easily defeated the under-prepared Indian, New Zealand and Australian troops who had joined the British there. When British officials realized Singapore would fall they evacuated the colonials, leaving the Chinese, Indian and Malay populations to fend for themselves. Throughout this Colburn worked as a medical volunteer, cleaning up the bodies left from Japanese bombing. Two British battleships were sunk with nine hundred British sailors lost and the British surrendered after six weeks. Under the Japanese occupation, one hundred thousand prisoners of war were arrested and imprisoned or executed in six weeks. Colburn was taken prisoner by the Japanese and spent four years in horrendous conditions, with almost no food or medicine available. He used his experience as a pharmacist to help his fellow inmates as much as he could. It is estimated that twenty to thirty thousand people perished in captivity. As Prof. Jayathurai says, "Churchill gave up Malaya for the defense of Europe. This was the end of the British Empire; everything after that was borrowed time." College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Mashizan Masjum, fl. 2004, Four Square Productions, Crest Communications Production, Eva Petryshen
Author / Creator
Guo Fangfang
Date Published / Released
2001, 2002
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Speaker / Narrator
Eva Petryshen
Topic / Theme
Air raids, Bombardment, Invasions, Massacres, Lines of defense, Military maneuvers, Military occupation, Military strategy, Prisoner of war camps, Prisoners of war, Torture, Civil defense, Japanese invasion of Singapore, February 8-15, 1942, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2002. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Heroes of World War II, 6, The Man Who Saved Britain's Cities
directed by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010; produced by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010, in Heroes of World War II, 6 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2003, originally published 2003), 24 mins
In 1940, German bombers were ready to bomb Britain into submission and they were aided by the use of radio beams which told them exactly where to drop bombs at night. Dr R V Jones of British Air Intelligence was tasked with defeating this high-tech warfare. Ingeniously, he devised counter-beams which put the Germa...
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directed by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010; produced by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010, in Heroes of World War II, 6 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2003, originally published 2003), 24 mins
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In 1940, German bombers were ready to bomb Britain into submission and they were aided by the use of radio beams which told them exactly where to drop bombs at night. Dr R V Jones of British Air Intelligence was tasked with defeating this high-tech warfare. Ingeniously, he devised counter-beams which put the Germans off target.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010, Robert Powell, 1944-
Author / Creator
Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Heroes of World War II
Speaker / Narrator
Robert Powell, 1944-
Person Discussed
Reginald Victor Jones, 1911-1997
Topic / Theme
Air raids, Bombardment, Coded messages, Telecommunications, Military strategy, Weapons and ordnance, Blitz, September 1940-May 1941, Science and Technology, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Infamous Places, 5, Hiroshima Japan
produced by Andrew Thomson, fl. 2009-2011 and Gillian Bartlett, in Infamous Places, 5 (Geelong, Victoria: World Wide Entertainment, 2007, originally published 2007), 5 mins
Hiroshima, Japan: On the 6th of August 1945, the US B29 dubbed the Enola Gay flew over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and dropped a nuclear bomb called Little Boy. The plane, piloted by 509th composite group commander Paul Tibbets was launched from the airbase in the West Pacific, 6 hours flight time from Japan. W...
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produced by Andrew Thomson, fl. 2009-2011 and Gillian Bartlett, in Infamous Places, 5 (Geelong, Victoria: World Wide Entertainment, 2007, originally published 2007), 5 mins
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Hiroshima, Japan: On the 6th of August 1945, the US B29 dubbed the Enola Gay flew over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and dropped a nuclear bomb called Little Boy. The plane, piloted by 509th composite group commander Paul Tibbets was launched from the airbase in the West Pacific, 6 hours flight time from Japan. When it was launched it exploded about 600 meters above the city, 80,000 people were killed outright and an estimated further 60,000 dea...
Hiroshima, Japan: On the 6th of August 1945, the US B29 dubbed the Enola Gay flew over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and dropped a nuclear bomb called Little Boy. The plane, piloted by 509th composite group commander Paul Tibbets was launched from the airbase in the West Pacific, 6 hours flight time from Japan. When it was launched it exploded about 600 meters above the city, 80,000 people were killed outright and an estimated further 60,000 deaths occurred in the following months. There were many reasons why Hiroshima was targeted.
The research and development project that resulted in the design and construction of the world's first atomic bombs was named 'the Manhattan Project'. After test in New Mexico in July, Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima under the order of President Harry S. Truman, as was 'Fat Man,' the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later.
The US made the momentous decision to use nuclear weapons in a bid to force Japan's surrender and end the six-year-old Second World War. The Japanese surrendered on August 15.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Andrew Thomson, fl. 2009-2011, Gillian Bartlett, Madeleine Swain
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
World Wide Entertainment
Series
Infamous Places
Speaker / Narrator
Madeleine Swain
Topic / Theme
Air raids, Bombardment, Military strategy, Weapons and ordnance, Nuclear warfare, Atomic Bombing, Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2007 by World Wide Entertainment
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Infamous Places, 6, Pearl Harbour
produced by Andrew Thomson, fl. 2009-2011, in Infamous Places, 6 (Geelong, Victoria: World Wide Entertainment, 2007, originally published 2007), 5 mins
Pearl Harbor: On the 7th of December 1941, the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was ambushed by the naval forces of the empire of Japan. It was the event that made the US enter the Second World War.
There were heavy losses for the Americans with 2403 dead and 1178 wounded, they also lost 188 aircraft and 5...
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produced by Andrew Thomson, fl. 2009-2011, in Infamous Places, 6 (Geelong, Victoria: World Wide Entertainment, 2007, originally published 2007), 5 mins
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Pearl Harbor: On the 7th of December 1941, the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was ambushed by the naval forces of the empire of Japan. It was the event that made the US enter the Second World War.
There were heavy losses for the Americans with 2403 dead and 1178 wounded, they also lost 188 aircraft and 5 battleships and 1 minelayer and 3 destroyers were either sunk or badly damaged. The air raid attack began at 7:48am and was over ninet...
Pearl Harbor: On the 7th of December 1941, the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was ambushed by the naval forces of the empire of Japan. It was the event that made the US enter the Second World War.
There were heavy losses for the Americans with 2403 dead and 1178 wounded, they also lost 188 aircraft and 5 battleships and 1 minelayer and 3 destroyers were either sunk or badly damaged. The air raid attack began at 7:48am and was over ninety minutes later.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Andrew Thomson, fl. 2009-2011, Madeleine Swain
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
World Wide Entertainment
Series
Infamous Places
Speaker / Narrator
Madeleine Swain
Topic / Theme
Air raids, Airplanes, Bombardment, Military strategy, Weapons and ordnance, Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Nippon News, Number 175, Nippon News, No. 175, October 12, 1943
produced by Nippon News, in Nippon News, Number 175 (Tokyo Metropolis: NHK International Inc., 1943, originally published 1943), 7 mins
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produced by Nippon News, in Nippon News, Number 175 (Tokyo Metropolis: NHK International Inc., 1943, originally published 1943), 7 mins
Date Written / Recorded
1943
Field of Study
Newsreels
Content Type
Newsreel
Contributor
Nippon News
Date Published / Released
1943-10-12, 1943
Publisher
NHK International Inc.
Series
Nippon News
Topic / Theme
Military strategy, Air Force bases, Bombardment, Fire fighters, Navy bases, Air raids, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1943. Used by permission of NHK International Inc.
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Nippon News, Number 182, Nippon News, No. 182, November 29, 1943
produced by Nippon News, in Nippon News, Number 182 (Tokyo Metropolis: NHK International Inc., 1943, originally published 1943), 8 mins
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produced by Nippon News, in Nippon News, Number 182 (Tokyo Metropolis: NHK International Inc., 1943, originally published 1943), 8 mins
Date Written / Recorded
1943
Field of Study
Newsreels
Content Type
Newsreel
Contributor
Nippon News
Date Published / Released
1943-11-29, 1943
Publisher
NHK International Inc.
Series
Nippon News
Topic / Theme
Military campaigns, Airplanes, Air raids, Bombardment, Mud and mudslides, Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1943. Used by permission of NHK International Inc.
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Russia's War: Blood upon the Snow, Season 1, Episode 3, The Goths Ride East
produced by Video Collection International, in Russia's War: Blood upon the Snow, Season 1, Episode 3 (Toronto, ON: Entertainment One Ltd., 1997, originally published 1997), 51 mins
This documentary, produced by Video Collection International, is about the German invasion of the Soviet Union and Stalin's reactions.
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produced by Video Collection International, in Russia's War: Blood upon the Snow, Season 1, Episode 3 (Toronto, ON: Entertainment One Ltd., 1997, originally published 1997), 51 mins
Description
This documentary, produced by Video Collection International, is about the German invasion of the Soviet Union and Stalin's reactions.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Video Collection International, Sir Nigel Hawthorne, 1929-2001
Date Published / Released
1997
Publisher
Entertainment One Ltd.
Series
Russia's War: Blood upon the Snow
Speaker / Narrator
Sir Nigel Hawthorne, 1929-2001
Person Discussed
Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953, Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945
Topic / Theme
Military maneuvers, Military campaigns, Military discipline, Battles, Air raids, Invasions, German Invasion of Soviet Union, June 1941-1945, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2011. Used by permission of Entertainment One Ltd.
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Weapons of World War II, 5, Fighter Bombers
directed by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010; produced by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010, in Weapons of World War II, 5 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2003, originally published 2003), 24 mins
By 1944, the Allied fronts in both western and eastern Europe had become faster moving and a new form of aircraft was needed to deliver swift, powerful attacks against German lines.This programme looks at the key fighter-bombers on all sides, including the American Thunderbolt, the Russian Sturmovik, and the Briti...
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directed by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010; produced by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010, in Weapons of World War II, 5 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2003, originally published 2003), 24 mins
Description
By 1944, the Allied fronts in both western and eastern Europe had become faster moving and a new form of aircraft was needed to deliver swift, powerful attacks against German lines.This programme looks at the key fighter-bombers on all sides, including the American Thunderbolt, the Russian Sturmovik, and the British Hurricane developed to carry bombs and rockets for ground attack purposes.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010, Robert Powell, 1944-
Author / Creator
Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Weapons of World War II
Speaker / Narrator
Robert Powell, 1944-
Topic / Theme
Air raids, Airplane pilots, Airplanes, Bombardment, Military personnel, Military strategy, Paratroops, D-Day Invasion, June 6, 1944, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2003 BBC Worldwide
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Weapons of World War II, 6, Heavy Bombers
directed by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010; produced by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010, in Weapons of World War II, 6 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2003, originally published 2003), 24 mins
At the outbreak of World War II, the only heavy four engined bombers in the war were either Russian or American. Soon the Short Stirling, the Avro Lancaster, and the Liberator were added to the B-17 Flying Fortress for devastating 1000 bomber raids over Germany. Ultimately, the pressurised B-29 gave the Americans...
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directed by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010; produced by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010, in Weapons of World War II, 6 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2003, originally published 2003), 24 mins
Description
At the outbreak of World War II, the only heavy four engined bombers in the war were either Russian or American. Soon the Short Stirling, the Avro Lancaster, and the Liberator were added to the B-17 Flying Fortress for devastating 1000 bomber raids over Germany. Ultimately, the pressurised B-29 gave the Americans the range and height they required in order to drop the Atomic bomb.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010, Robert Powell, 1944-
Author / Creator
Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Weapons of World War II
Speaker / Narrator
Robert Powell, 1944-
Topic / Theme
Air raids, Airplane pilots, Airplanes, Battles, Bombardment, Military personnel, Military strategy, Bombing of Dresden, February 14-15, 1945, Bombing of Hamburg, July 1943, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2003 BBC Worldwide
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