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In the summer of 1943 more than 2,000,000 men of the German and Russian Armies and over 6,000 tanks were gathered together near the Russian town of Kursk. The scene was set for one of the war's most crucial engagements the outcome of which would have a vital effect on the overall conflict.

This episode, brand new to DVD is from the land mark television series "Battlefield". Featuring fascinating archive footage from all over the world the programme includes a review of the political and military situation before the battle, portraits of leaders and commanders, an explanation of weapons and tactics and the story of the battle itself. Vivid graphics place the battle into the context of the war as a whole.

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Bernard Archard
Peter Batty

Chapter Points. Weblink.

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Peter Batty

Main Feature. Chapter Points. Web Link.

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Ernest Bresser, Anthony van Saane, Jan Boon

This absorbing programme examines the dramatic execution, in September 1944, of Field Marshal Montgomery's plan, codenamed operation "Market Garden". By this, all major river crossings in Holland were to be seized by the Allies in a single blow, to secure a bridgehead across the Rhine. This would lead to a take-over of the German industrial heartland of the Ruhr, and a decisive thrust towards Berlin. It was hoped that the defeat of Germany, and the end of the Third Reich, would soon ensue. However, the plan was only partially successful, and there were over 7,500 casualties.

This carefully researched account analyses the events leading up to the battle, the progress of the fighting, and the factors responsible for the Allied defeat. Contemporary film material (including glider landings, parachute drops and movements of men and equipment), photographs and sound recordings from British, German and Dutch sources, and strategic maps, all help to explain the course of this key battle of World War II.

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The Battle of the River Plate (1956)

The Battle of the River Plate is a gripping drama set at sea. Ten days before the outbreak of World War II, a powerful German battleship sails around the South Atlantic destroying Allied merchant ships. Finally, the Allies learn of its location and a trap is set, pitching British intelligence against a powerful military opponent..

• Actors: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch, Bernard Lee, Ian Hunter
• Written, Produced, Directed: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

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- On-screen interviews with Roger Smitheer,,, Laura Rossi, Stephen Horne and Dr Toby Haggith.
- Five missing scenes and fragments linkkeddd to their originally intended position in the film.
- Booklet with information on the film, ittts restoration and musical accompaniments.

The Battle of the Somme (1916) is one of the most successful British films ever made. It is estimated that more than 20 million tickets were sold in Great Britain in the first two months of release, and the film was distributed worldwide to prove Britain’s commitment to the First World War. It is the source of many of the conflict’s most iconic images.

The Battle of the Somme gave its 1916 audience an unprecedented insight into the realities of trench warfare, controversially including the depiction of dead and wounded soldiers. It shows scenes of the build-up to the infantry offensive, including the massive preliminary bombardment, coverage of the first day of the battle – the bloodiest single day in the British Army’s history – and depictions of the small gains and huge costs of the attack. As a pioneering battlefi eld documentary, the very concept of The Battle of the Somme outraged commentators on its release, inaugurating a debate about the on-screen depiction of combat that continues to this day. Its use of a staged sequence to represent the opening of the assault also set the scene for continuing controversy about the ‘truth’ of the documentary format.

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Philip Elsmore
Wolf D Mauder, Sigrid Sessner

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Interview with Brigadier Mervyn Walters, Commander Mulberry '8' Newsreel Theatre Interview with Jim Hines, Duck Driver Newsreel Theatre

MULBERRY HARBOURS: Recognising the huge risk in capturing German-held ports in occupied France, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued his famous memo 'Piers for use on Beaches' outlining the most audacious plan of the Second World War. The Allies would build and tow two enormous harbours across 100 miles of Nazi infested waters as they launched the invasion of Europe in June 1944.

'DUCK' LANDING: Designed in 1942, its official name was the DUKW Amphibious Vehicle but to the American G.I.s in World War Two, it was the "Duck". The slowest and least lovely vessel ever to put to sea, the 'Duck' proved to be a vital machine in the Allied amphibious victories - from the D-Day beaches in Normandy to the Pacific Islands of Saipan and Iwo Jima.

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Interview with Bob Nurse. Sherman Gunner Newsreel Theatre
Photo gallery (7 images)
Interview with Jack Water, Director, US Army Ordnance Museum Newsreel Theatre (Please note: this is mute)
Photo Gallery (9 images) R.R.P: £12.99

SHERMAN ASSAULT: From the D-Day beaches to the crushing defeat of the German Army in France, the American M4 Sherman tanks fought in some of the bloodiest battles of World War Two. Though inferior to its German rivals in firepower and armour, the sheer numbers of Shermans produced by America's 'Arsenal of Democracy' overwhelmed the might of the Nazi war machine and opened-up the long road to Berlin.

T-34 - RUSSIAN VICTORY: Born out of a desperate need to defend the Motherland, Stalin enlisted the ideas of an American engineer J. Walter Christie to develop, in total secrecy, one of the most formidable tanks in history. In 1941, straining under the ferocity of Operation Barbarossa, Stalin ordered his new weapon into the fray - changing the course of the Second World War. 50,000 T-34s were built by the Soviets and the tank did more than any other machine to bring victory on the Eastern Front.

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Interview with Sir Edward Fennessey. Radar Engineer Newsreel Theatre Interview with Cyril Demarne. Chief Fire Officer Newsreel Theatre (Please note: this includes some mute footage).

RADAR: At the beginning of World War Two, radar was in its infancy. Huge towers were erected along Britain's south coast which tracked German planes as they crossed the English Channel. Without radar and the advanced warning of the German arrival it gave, Britain could well have lost the Battle of Britain. But as the war progressed radar developed at a fantastic rate. When the brilliant scientists at MIT got to work on it they found literally hundreds of uses for radar from aiming gunsights to identifying ships at sea. And the radar systems got smaller and smaller until they could be carried in the fuselage of a ship or in the control room of a submarine.

HITLER'S VENGEANCE WEAPONS: From a remote German island in the Baltic Sea, the first successful launch of a rocket into the stratosphere took place in October 1942. Originally all the scientist had wanted to do was go to the moon, but instead they had created Hitler's most advanced weapon of terror.

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Charles Wheeler
Alex Holmes, Richard Dale

This superb box set collects together every single major documentary work the BBC has produced about the Second World War in recent years. It includes The Nazis - A Warning From History, The Road To War, Dunkirk, War Of The Century, Battle Of The Atlantic, Horror In The East, Battlefields, D-Day, D-Day To Berlin and Auschwitz. A number of these documentary series are now only available as part of this collection.

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The Drummers Call
This traditional bugle call was included in all early ceremonial parades.
Buglers march on to start the parade with Drum beatings and Bugle calls
The Band Call
Traditionally sounded on all occasions when the band was required to parade.
The Fall In
A bugle call still used on formal ceremonial occasions immediately prior to the parade taking up formation to receive the Inspecting Officer.
Sarie Marais Toonsetting arr Dunn
The Massed Bands march on to Horse Guards Parade.
Royal Salute
The National Anthem
Royal Occasion Cole
A Fanfare is sounded on the Silver Trumpets of the Royal Marines School of Music.
Display by the Massed Bands in Honour of the Corps
Per Mare Per Terram Rose
The Captain General Dunn
Preobrajensky Donajowsky arr Dunn
The Massed Bands troop in slow time, then break into quick time, divide into three bands and move into position for Beating Retreat.
By Land and Sea Alford
The Massed Bands break into quick time and position themselves for the formal ceremony of Beating Retreat.
HM Jollies
Beating Retreat
The Massed bugles start the ceremony with the bugle calls of the Royal Marines.
A combined bugle and band fanfare which leads directly into Beat Retreat.
Bolero Ravel
The British Grenadiers Traditional
The Corps of Drums rejoin the band.
Display by the massed bands in honour of the Royal Navy
Under The White Ensign Dunn
The Bands, rejoined by the corps of Drums divide into four, reform into two and finally form one Band for the finale.
On the Quarterdeck Alford
Viscount Nelson Zehle
Heart of Oak Boyce arr Dunn

Finale
State Occasion Farnon
Abide With Me arr Neville
An arrangement of the evening hymn is followed by the focal point of the ceremony:
Sunset by the Silver Bugles accompanied by the Bands, with the Corps of Drums in rear.
Sunset Green
To comrades Sleeping Young
Rule Britannia Arne arr Sargent/Arnold
The National Anthem arr Jacobs
A Life on the Ocean Wave Russell arr Alford
The Regimental March is played as the Massed Bands counter march into position for the March back to Wellington Barracks

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Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley, Cyril Cusack, Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, Michael Rennie, Patricia Medina, Milly Vitale, David Knight, Esmond Knight, Christopher Lee
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Anthony Mann, Vernon Sewell

Ill Met By Moonlight:

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's final film together after an epic partnership that produced such classics as A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

On Nazi-occupied Crete, British officers Fermor (Dirk Bogarde) and Moss (David Oxley), aided by local patriots, are assigned the job of kidnapping the German commander-in-chief General Kreipe (Marius Goring). The operation, if successful, will be an incredible propaganda coup for the Allies. While the abduction goes smoothly, the chase across the rocky Cretan landscape proves anything but.

The Heroes of Telemark:

German-occupied Norway 1942: physics professor Dr Pederson (Kirk Douglas) and underground leader Stroud (Richard Harris) must convince British Intelligence that the Nazis are planning to build the A-bomb. The Norse Hydro Plant at Telemark is central to enemy strategy and the Allies decide to send in a task force to destroy it.

Legendary action director Anthony Mann (Winchester 73, EI Cid) tells the story of nine courageous and indomitable Norwegians, without whom the Second World War may have had a very different outcome.

This film is dedicated to the men and women of Norway whose bravery prevented Nazi Germany from getting the Atomic Bomb.

Battle of the V.1:

Michael Rennie stars in this tense, action-packed thriller set in occupied Europe during the Second World War and based on real life events.

Stefan (Michael Rennie), a Polish resistance fighter, is rounded up by the Nazis and sent to a forced labour camp. He finds himself at Peenemunde, a top secret base where German scientists are working on a new and deadly form of weapon - the V.1 flying bomb.

Now, the race is on to get the information back to Britain. Stefan teams up with another prisoner, Anna (Milly Vitale) - and together they manage to get the news out: a top level conference is scheduled at Peenemunde for factory managers and technicians from all over the Reich.

The R.A.F's response is quick and lethal. They launch a devastating 1,000 bomber raid against the rocket base - setting the project back months. But the menace of the V.1 s is not over yet. A V.1 must be captured intact and sent back to London for analysis - another dangerous task for the Polish Resistance...

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Roland Culver, Carla Lehmann, John Clements, Godfrey Tearle, David Niven, James Mason, Raymond Lovell, Greta Gynt, Leslie Howard
George King, Lesley Howard

First of the Few:
Filmed during the dark days of the 1942, this is the immortal story of the Spitfire which had helped to win the Battle of Britain the previous year. Leslie Howard stars as R.J. Mitchell, the inventor of the Spitfire, whose aircraft designs were turned down for funding by Whitehall because they were too revolutionary. A chance meeting with Messerschmitt in the early 1930's gives Mitchell the inspiration to build Britain's fastest and deadliest fighter plane. but first he must find a devil-may-care pilot to risk his life on the test flights. Salvation comes in the form of Geoffrey Crisp (David Niven), an out of work veteran fighter pilot from the First World War. Together they build the aircraft that so many will owe their lives to.

Candlelight in Algeria:
Susan (Carla Lehmann) is cast into a web of international intrigue when she decides to hide fugitive British agent Alan Thurston (James Mason) from Nazi agents in the Vichy colony of Algiers. Thurston's mission is to recover a camera reveling the exact location where the Allies are rehearsing operations for the invasions of North Africa. His every move is followed by Dr. Muller (Walter Rilla), a Nazi sympathiser, who will stop at nothing to acquire the camera and capture the Allied group. Candlelight in Algeria is a classic British wartime film that has rarely been seen since its wartime release in 1944 and James Mason is in top form as a sueve and courageous wartime spy.

Tomorrow We Live:
Whilst the Germans scour a French town for saboteurs, the Mayor (Godfrey Tearle) and his daughter Marie (Greta Gynt) collaborate with the German Occupation. But unknown to both the Germans and French villagers, they are leaders of the resistance organisation. When a young French idealist (John Clements) arrives without papers, Marie shields him from the Germans and enlists him in their cause to disrupt the German war effort and smuggle Allied airmen back to England. As the Audacity and success of the French Resistance increases, the Germans decide to call in the SS in order to establish obedience, But will the German's brutal suppression force the French to betray their fellow countrymen, or will the spirit of French patriotism stand from against Nazi tyranny?

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DVD Features:

Main Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital 5.1
Commentary By Richard Schickel
The Fighting First A War Department Film Featurette
Reconstruction Trailer
Alternate Scenes
Anatomy Of A Scene
The Men Who Made Sam Fuller Featurette
The Real Glory Reconstructing The Big Red One Documentary
Original Promo Reel
Stills Gallery

Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine
Samuel Fuller

An intimate and powerful film which exposes the human side of war, where the real glory lies in surviving.