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Air Front, 1, The Early Years '39-'42
produced by Mars Productions Limited and ArtsMagic, in Air Front, 1 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2010), 1 hour 11 mins
World War II perhaps saw the greatest advancement in air warfare of the 20th century. Conflict was now determined on the battlefield and in the air above, with both fighter aircraft and bombers playing a much larger role. In this program, the first in a series of three following the development of air assault, the...
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produced by Mars Productions Limited and ArtsMagic, in Air Front, 1 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2010), 1 hour 11 mins
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World War II perhaps saw the greatest advancement in air warfare of the 20th century. Conflict was now determined on the battlefield and in the air above, with both fighter aircraft and bombers playing a much larger role. In this program, the first in a series of three following the development of air assault, the conflict between Germany and Britain is examined before the US entered the fray.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Mars Productions Limited, ArtsMagic, Peter Morgan Jones
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Series
Air Front
Speaker / Narrator
Peter Morgan Jones
Topic / Theme
Bombings, Air raids, War, German Invasion of Yugoslavia, April 6-17, 1941, Blitz, September 1940-May 1941, Battle of Britain, July-October 1940, Battle of the Dunes, Dunkirk, Belgium, June 14, 1658, German Invasion of France, May 10-June 22, 1940, World War I, 1914-1918, World War II, 1939-1945, War and Violence, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Air Front, 2, The Yanks Are Coming '42-'45
produced by Mars Productions Limited and ArtsMagic, in Air Front, 2 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2010), 1 hour 6 mins
From the beginning of World War II until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Britain's Royal Air Force had stood alone. However, with America's entry into the war and the arrival of the 8th US Army Air Force, in the UK the tide began to turn.
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produced by Mars Productions Limited and ArtsMagic, in Air Front, 2 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2010), 1 hour 6 mins
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From the beginning of World War II until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Britain's Royal Air Force had stood alone. However, with America's entry into the war and the arrival of the 8th US Army Air Force, in the UK the tide began to turn.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Mars Productions Limited, ArtsMagic, Peter Morgan Jones
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Series
Air Front
Speaker / Narrator
Peter Morgan Jones
Topic / Theme
Military alliances, Bombings, Air raids, War, Battle of Berlin, 1945, Bombing of Dresden, February 14-15, 1945, Battle of Britain, July-October 1940, Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, World War II, 1939-1945, War and Violence, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Air Front, 3, Japan: Triumph & Defeat '41-'45
produced by Mars Productions Limited and ArtsMagic, in Air Front, 3 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2011), 1 hour 7 mins
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Empire rapidly surged out into south-east Asia and the Central Pacific. Triumph & Defeat '41 - '45 tells the story of the initial Japanese successes and then the relentless fight back by the Allies across the vast distances of the Pacific. Allied Air Force & Navy...
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produced by Mars Productions Limited and ArtsMagic, in Air Front, 3 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2011), 1 hour 7 mins
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Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Empire rapidly surged out into south-east Asia and the Central Pacific. Triumph & Defeat '41 - '45 tells the story of the initial Japanese successes and then the relentless fight back by the Allies across the vast distances of the Pacific. Allied Air Force & Navy aircraft supported the advance through the Solomon, Gilbert, Marshall and Philippine Island groups. With the Mariana Islands secured, t...
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Empire rapidly surged out into south-east Asia and the Central Pacific. Triumph & Defeat '41 - '45 tells the story of the initial Japanese successes and then the relentless fight back by the Allies across the vast distances of the Pacific. Allied Air Force & Navy aircraft supported the advance through the Solomon, Gilbert, Marshall and Philippine Island groups. With the Mariana Islands secured, the massive B-29 bombing campaign would now take the war to Japan itself, culminating in the devastating atomic bomb attacks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Mars Productions Limited, ArtsMagic, Peter Morgan Jones
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Series
Air Front
Speaker / Narrator
Peter Morgan Jones
Topic / Theme
Bombings, Air raids, War, Japanese Surrender, August 14, 1945, Battle of Iwo Jima, February 19-March 16, 1945, Atomic Bombing, Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945, Atomic Bombing, Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945, Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, World War II, 1939-1945, War and Violence, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Canada Carries On, Churchill's Island
directed by Stuart Legg, 1910-1988; produced by Stuart Legg, 1910-1988, National Film Board of Canada, in Canada Carries On (Montreal, QC: National Film Board of Canada), 21 mins
This film won the NFB its first Oscar® and was also the first documentary to win this coveted award. It presents the strategy of the Battle of Britain, showing with penetrating clarity the relationship of the various forces that went to make up the island's defences. Here is the Royal Air Force in its epic battle...
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directed by Stuart Legg, 1910-1988; produced by Stuart Legg, 1910-1988, National Film Board of Canada, in Canada Carries On (Montreal, QC: National Film Board of Canada), 21 mins
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This film won the NFB its first Oscar® and was also the first documentary to win this coveted award. It presents the strategy of the Battle of Britain, showing with penetrating clarity the relationship of the various forces that went to make up the island's defences. Here is the Royal Air Force in its epic battle with the Luftwaffe, the Navy in its stubborn fight against the raiders of sea and sky, the coastal defences, the mechanized cavalry, t...
This film won the NFB its first Oscar® and was also the first documentary to win this coveted award. It presents the strategy of the Battle of Britain, showing with penetrating clarity the relationship of the various forces that went to make up the island's defences. Here is the Royal Air Force in its epic battle with the Luftwaffe, the Navy in its stubborn fight against the raiders of sea and sky, the coastal defences, the mechanized cavalry, the merchant seamen and behind them all, Britain's tough, unbending civilian army.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Stuart Legg, 1910-1988, National Film Board of Canada, Lorne Greene, 1915-1987
Author / Creator
Stuart Legg, 1910-1988
Date Published / Released
1941
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Series
Canada Carries On
Speaker / Narrator
Lorne Greene, 1915-1987
Topic / Theme
Navies, Air forces, Air raids, Battles, War, Battle of Britain, July-October 1940, War and Violence, Canadians, British, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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© 1941 National Film Board of Canada
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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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Modus Operandi: The German Occupation of Belgium
directed by Hugues Lanneau; produced by Willy Perelsztejn, fl. 2011 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011, originally published 2011), 1 hour 38 mins
From 1942 to 1944, 24,916 Jewish men, women and children were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. Only 1,206 survived.
Modus Operandi raises and systematically answers the question: How did just a handful of Nazis, with the help, voluntary or unwitting, of the Belgian authorities, bring about their destruction? I...
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directed by Hugues Lanneau; produced by Willy Perelsztejn, fl. 2011 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011, originally published 2011), 1 hour 38 mins
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From 1942 to 1944, 24,916 Jewish men, women and children were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. Only 1,206 survived.
Modus Operandi raises and systematically answers the question: How did just a handful of Nazis, with the help, voluntary or unwitting, of the Belgian authorities, bring about their destruction? It covers the sequence of events and different phases that led to the Final Solution.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Willy Perelsztejn, fl. 2011
Author / Creator
Hugues Lanneau
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Antisemitism, Arrests, Census, Deportation, Jewish people, Laws and legislation, Military occupation, Military raids, World War II, 1939-1945, Family and Culture, Race and Gender, Religion and Belief Systems, War and Violence, World History, Afghans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Theater of War: The Pacific Campaign, Episode 4, Victory at Sea - America Fights Back
directed by Liam Dale; produced by Liam Dale, Vibe Productions, in Theater of War: The Pacific Campaign, Episode 4 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2012), 26 mins
Six episode series devoted to the history of the Pacific Theater of World War II. Starting with the tensions in the Pacific that led to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor through the epic battle of Midway and the Atomic Bombing of Japan.
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directed by Liam Dale; produced by Liam Dale, Vibe Productions, in Theater of War: The Pacific Campaign, Episode 4 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2012), 26 mins
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Six episode series devoted to the history of the Pacific Theater of World War II. Starting with the tensions in the Pacific that led to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor through the epic battle of Midway and the Atomic Bombing of Japan.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Liam Dale, Vibe Productions
Author / Creator
Liam Dale
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Series
Theater of War: The Pacific Campaign
Speaker / Narrator
Liam Dale
Person Discussed
Chester William Nimitz, 1885-1966, Isoroku Yamamoto, 1884-1943, James Harold Doolittle, 1896-1993
Topic / Theme
Air raids, War, Naval battles, Battle of Midway, June 3-6, 1942, Doolittle Raid, Tokyo, Japan, April 18, 1942, Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, World War II, 1939-1945, War and Violence, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Theater of War: The Pacific Campaign, Episode 6, The Final Act - From VE Day to VJ Day
directed by Liam Dale; produced by Liam Dale, Vibe Productions, in Theater of War: The Pacific Campaign, Episode 6 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2012), 26 mins
Six episode series devoted to the history of the Pacific Theater of World War II. Starting with the tensions in the Pacific that led to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor through the epic battle of Midway and the Atomic Bombing of Japan.
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directed by Liam Dale; produced by Liam Dale, Vibe Productions, in Theater of War: The Pacific Campaign, Episode 6 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2012), 26 mins
Description
Six episode series devoted to the history of the Pacific Theater of World War II. Starting with the tensions in the Pacific that led to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor through the epic battle of Midway and the Atomic Bombing of Japan.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Liam Dale, Vibe Productions
Author / Creator
Liam Dale
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Series
Theater of War: The Pacific Campaign
Speaker / Narrator
Liam Dale
Person Discussed
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989, Harry S. Truman, 1884-1972, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964
Topic / Theme
Air raids, Naval battles, War, Victory over Japan Day, August 15, 1945, Japanese Surrender, August 14, 1945, Atomic Bombing, Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945, Atomic Bombing, Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945, Philippines Campaign, June 19-December 15, 1944, Battle of Iwo Jima, February 19-March 16, 1945, Battle for the Ryukyus, March 19-June 21, 1945, World War II, 1939-1945, War and Violence, 20th...
Air raids, Naval battles, War, Victory over Japan Day, August 15, 1945, Japanese Surrender, August 14, 1945, Atomic Bombing, Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945, Atomic Bombing, Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945, Philippines Campaign, June 19-December 15, 1944, Battle of Iwo Jima, February 19-March 16, 1945, Battle for the Ryukyus, March 19-June 21, 1945, World War II, 1939-1945, War and Violence, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Tirpitz - The Final Battle
directed by Roald E. Hansen (Oslo, Oslo County: Nordic World, 2007, originally published 2006), 1 hour
A British bomber managed to sink the German battleship Tirpitz near Tromsø, Norway, November 12, 1944. Almost a thousands German soldiers died. Major Ehrler, one of Germany's best fighter pilots, was blamed for the sinking of the ship. He was court-martialed, but ended his life in an heroic air battle over Berlin.
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directed by Roald E. Hansen (Oslo, Oslo County: Nordic World, 2007, originally published 2006), 1 hour
Description
A British bomber managed to sink the German battleship Tirpitz near Tromsø, Norway, November 12, 1944. Almost a thousands German soldiers died. Major Ehrler, one of Germany's best fighter pilots, was blamed for the sinking of the ship. He was court-martialed, but ended his life in an heroic air battle over Berlin.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Nils Johnson, fl. 2006
Author / Creator
Roald E. Hansen
Date Published / Released
2006, 2007
Publisher
Nordic World
Speaker / Narrator
Nils Johnson, fl. 2006
Person Discussed
Heinrich Ehrler, 1917-1945
Topic / Theme
Air raids, Airplane pilots, Airplanes, Bombardment, Sinking ships, Navy ships, Naval battles, World War II, 1939-1945, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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A World Beneath the War: The Secret Tunnels of Vietnam
directed by Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013; produced by Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1997), 56 mins
In 1965, the villagers of one district of Central Vietnam found themselves on the front lines of an increasingly brutal war. For these villagers, the war became a struggle for survival. They would choose a remarkable course of action. Rather than flee their ancestral village, they dug a series of tunnels and moved...
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directed by Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013; produced by Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1997), 56 mins
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In 1965, the villagers of one district of Central Vietnam found themselves on the front lines of an increasingly brutal war. For these villagers, the war became a struggle for survival. They would choose a remarkable course of action. Rather than flee their ancestral village, they dug a series of tunnels and moved their entire communities underground. Through the personal stories of tunnelers, as well as one American former P.O.W. held in the tun...
In 1965, the villagers of one district of Central Vietnam found themselves on the front lines of an increasingly brutal war. For these villagers, the war became a struggle for survival. They would choose a remarkable course of action. Rather than flee their ancestral village, they dug a series of tunnels and moved their entire communities underground. Through the personal stories of tunnelers, as well as one American former P.O.W. held in the tunnels, we are transported into this subterranean world.Rare archival footage, much of which has never been seen in the West, reveals miles of catacombs where as many as 2,000 people took shelter. We follow an artist who takes his son back to Vinh Moc village, and explains how markets, theaters, hospitals, and schools were created in those war years. An American Air Force historian gives his perspective. This extraordinary film contains a capsule history of the war, a war which the Vietnamese call "The American War." High School College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013
Author / Creator
Janet P. Gardner, fl. 2013
Date Published / Released
1997
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Air raids, Fine arts, Bombardment, Civilian war casualties, Physical health, Prisoners of war, Towns, Vietnam War, 1956-1975, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 1997. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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