Home Front Britain - MOI Video

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1. Food Flash: Potatoes

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   Web Exclusive: Informational video from the British home office during WWII urging people to "save on bread, eat potatoes instead"

   

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   Aug 18, 2010

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   2,531

   Duration:

   00:17

2. Home Front Britain: Christmas Under Fire

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   By the end of 1940, Britain's best hope in the war against Germany was to convince the US to become an ally. Christmas Under Fire was one of the films produced by the Ministry of Information to help convince the American public that Britain was worth

   

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   Aug 18, 2010

   Views:

   1,894

   Duration:

   04:28

3. Home Front Britain: Britain At Bay

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   Britain at Bay by J B Priestley's was one of the films produced by the Ministry of Information to boost the morale of the British publish and help galvenize the war effort.

   

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   Aug 18, 2010

   Views:

   487

   Duration:

   03:51

4. Home Front Britain: Go To Blazes

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   Go To Blazes, starring Will Hay, was a comic wartime film produced by the Ministry of Information to communicate what people should do if there house was hit by one of the 1 million incendiary devices dropped by the Luftwaffe in the run up to Nov ...

   

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   Aug 18, 2010

   Views:

   516

   Duration:

   03:40

5. Home Front Britain: Living With Strangers

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   Living With Strangers, an informational film produced by the Ministry of Information during the war, looks at the challenges involved in families being evacuated out of the cities, to live with other families in the country.

   

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   Aug 18, 2010

   Views:

   916

   Duration:

   02:57

6. Home Front Britain: Love On Leave

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   The wartime film makers at the Ministry of Information worked hard to convey the risks of sexually transmitted disease, or VD for short, to the British publish. Love On Leave was one of these films.

   

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   Aug 18, 2010

   Views:

   385

   Duration:

   03:56

7. Home Front Britain: Britain At Bay

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   Britain at Bay by J B Priestley's was one of the films produced by the Ministry of Information to boost the morale of the British publish and help galvenize the war effort.

   

   Added:

   Aug 18, 2010

   Views:

   487

   Duration:

   03:51

8. Home Front Britain: Christmas Under Fire

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   By the end of 1940, Britain's best hope in the war against Germany was to convince the US to become an ally. Christmas Under Fire was one of the films produced by the Ministry of Information to help convince the American public that Britain was worth

   

   Added:

   Aug 18, 2010

   Views:

   1,894

   Duration:

   04:28

9. How Do They Do It?: Restoring Film at the BFI

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   The BFI are experts when it comes to restoring archive film and in this clip we see the painstaking work involved in restoring the Oscar nominated 1942 wartime film, Listen to Britain, back to it's former glory.

   

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   Aug 18, 2010

   Views:

   1,204

   Duration:

   03:08

10. Do it Now: Bomb Raids and Gasmasks

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    Exclusive British Ministry of Information video from WWII, courtesy of the BFI.

    

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    Aug 18, 2010

    Views:

    1,459

    Duration:

    03:22

11. Living With Strangers: Social Centre

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    Exclusive British Ministry of Information video from WWII, courtesy of the BFI.

    

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    Aug 18, 2010

    Views:

    675

    Duration:

    03:08

12. Bampton Leads the Way: Food Campaign

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    Exclusive British Ministry of Information video from WWII, courtesy of the BFI.

    

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    Aug 18, 2010

    Views:

    556

    Duration:

    02:02

13. How Do They Do It?: The BFI Film Archive

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    How do you store a quarter of a million very fragile and highly flammable film reels? Carefully. See the BFI at work in this fascinating look into the BFI Film Archive in Berkhamstead.

    

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    Aug 18, 2010

    Views:

    2,005

    Duration:

    03:03

14. Bampton Shows the Way: School Activities

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    Exclusive British Ministry of Information video from WWII, courtesy of the BFI.

    

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    Aug 18, 2010

    Views:

    674

    Duration:

    02:32

15. Do it Now: Wartime Advice

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    Exclusive British Ministry of Information video from WWII, courtesy of the BFI, giving people valuable wartime advice ranging from how to lessen the risk of fire to instructions on only making necessary phone calls.

    

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    Aug 18, 2010

    Views:

    244

    Duration:

    02:08

16. Living With Strangers: Look you two, there's a war on...

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    Exclusive British Ministry of Information video from WWII, courtesy of the BFI.

    

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    Aug 18, 2010

    Views:

    148

    Duration:

    02:15

17. Do it Now: Evacuating the Children

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    Exclusive British Ministry of Information video from WWII, courtesy of the BFI.

    

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    Aug 18, 2010

    Views:

    546

    Duration:

    01:57

18. Neighbours Under Fire: Blitzkrieg on London

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    This exclusive video from the British Ministry of Information, courtesy of the BFI, shows how voluntary workers during the war were critical to helping people get through the devastating experience of being bombed.

    

    Added:

    Aug 18, 2010

    Views:

    521

    Duration:

    02:56