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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.
The Slavery Business
The Rise and Fall of the House of Beckford
- Broadcast
- 2005 (59 mins)
Docu-drama which focuses on the Beckford family who were transformed from a middle class family to a C18 dynasty running Britain’s first global business- slavery. They owned many sugar plantations in Jamaica.
Open University Lecture
Hitler’s Place in History: The Discussion
- Broadcast
- 2005 (29 mins)
Studio debate chaired by Laurence REES with a panel of leading historians of Hitler and the Third Reich, incl Prof Ian KERSHAW. Did the Second World War happen because of Adolf Hitler or because of the times...