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  • Nation on Film Series Two

    Flying With Cobham

    Broadcast
    2006 (29 mins)

    5/6 in history documentary series. Aspects of Britain’s social history captured on film over the last 100 years. David JASON narrates the story of trail-blazing pilot Alan COBHAM’s mission to get Britons...

  • Nation on Film Series Two

    The Ramsden Collection

    Broadcast
    2006 (29 mins)

    The story of a newly-discovered amateur archive that sheds new light on life in post-war Britain. For 20 years, husband and wife, Betty and Cyril Ramsden, recorded the world around them. They captured...

  • Nation on Film Series One

    Body Beautiful

    Broadcast
    2005 (29 mins)

    Archive docu series charts 20C British social history. Prog re how nation tried to improve its health & fitness in the interwar years, & how people were influenced by what they saw & ate & how they exercised.

  • Nation on Film Series One

    Sex and Marriage

    Broadcast
    2005 (29 mins)

    The programme tells the story of what was acceptable, dangerous or taboo in sex and marriage. Using 1920’s silent feature film, health education films and amateur archive it tells how Marie STOPES’ ideas...

  • Nation on Film Series One

    At the Chalkface

    Broadcast
    2005 (29 mins)

    Nation on Film goes back to school, as films made in the classrooms of Britain reveal those happy days of secondary moderns, grammar schools and the 11-plus exam. Sixty years ago, secondary modern schools...

  • Nation on Film Series One

    Private Passions

    Broadcast
    2005 (29 mins)

    Amateur film-making boomed in the 1930s and a rich legacy of celluloid gems resides in the film archives of the country. Against a backdrop of social upheaval, most aspiring film-makers of the time chose...

  • Nation on Film Series One

    Selling Salvation

    Broadcast
    2005 (29 mins)

    This episode in the archive series examines how the Christian church in this country used film to offer salvation to the permissive society of the 1950s and 60s. Using a cross-section of rarely seen films,...

  • Nation on Film Series One

    Make Yourself at Home

    Broadcast
    2005 (29 mins)

    The programme looks at how, between the 1950s to the 1970s, thousands of Asian immigrants came to Britain. They came from different countries, with different languages, cultures and religions. Cine cameras...

  • Nation on Film

    Shooting the War: VE DAY SPECIAL

    Broadcast
    2005 (29 mins)

    History documentary series. Aspects of Britain’s social history as captured on film over the last 100 years. Newly discovered amateur & professional archive footage shows Britain during the height of World...

  • Open University Lecture

    Hitler’s Place in History

    Broadcast
    2005 (59 mins)

    On the 60th anniversary of his death, Professor Ian KERSHAW provides an analysis of Adolf HITLER’s life and legacy.