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Sinking Hitler's Supership

The MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German KdF flagship during 1937-1945, constructed by the Blohm & Voss shipyards. It sank after being torpedoed by the Soviet submarine S-13 on 30 January 1945. The Wilhelm Gustloff's final voyage was during Operation Hannibal in January 1945, when it was sunk while participating in the evacuation of military personnel, Nazi officials and civilians who were surrounded by the Red Army in East Prussia. The Gustloff was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea on the night of 30 January 1945 and sank in less than 45 minutes. An estimated 9,400 people were killed in the sinking. If accurate, this would be the largest known loss of life occurring during a single ship sinking in recorded maritime history. Now, NGC examines the events leading up to the catastrophe and looks for answers to the mystery surrounding the fateful night.

Sinking Hitler's Supership

NR 2008
Vulcan Bomber: Return to the Skies

During the Falklands War, a team of Vulcan Bombers staged the longest bombing raid ever attempted. We tell the amazing story of the machines that undertook the near impossible mission of bombing Port Stanley. The programme features archive footage spanning the Vulcan's entire dramatic history, including newsreels, amateur video and film shot by the pilots themselves. We also make use of an enormous array of archival sources, including the plane's original design specification, and orders for construction from the War Office.

Vulcan Bomber: Return to the Skies

NR 2007
About Baghdad

About Baghdad is the first film made about Iraq after the fall of the Ba'ath regime in July 2003. It is also perhaps the first effort to privilege the voices of the Iraqi people, from all walks of life as well as social, economic and ethnic backgrounds. While many have talked about and for the Iraqi people, few media outlets have sought to probe beyond the simplistic binary of pro-US/pro-Saddam perspective so often found in Western and Arab media portrayals of Iraq. About Baghdad presents Iraqis who describe the pain, complexity and suffering of living under decades of tyranny, oppression, wars, sanctions and now occupation.

About Baghdad

9.0 2005
Samurai and the Swastika

Chronicles the strategic alliance between the Axis powers. Examines how Japan supplied Germany with much-needed raw materials for the war, while German engineers shared sophisticated rocket and jet-propulsion technology with their Japanese counterparts. Jointly, they supported anti-English uprisings in India, giving aid and military supplies to Bose Chandras, a dissident Indian general, and his guerilla army. They conspired to destroy the Panama Canal and cut off America's Pacific war from its crucial Atlantic supply operations. Uses computer animations to illustrate this plan.

Samurai and the Swastika

7.7 2006
First Flight of Vulcan XH558

The aviation heritage will never forget Thursday October 18th, 2007. The awesome sight of the mighty Cold War aircraft taking to the air powered by its four huge Rolls Royce Olympus engines brought tears to the eyes of all who saw it and generated spontaneous applause not only across Bruntingthorpe Airfield but around the aerospace world. After two years of restoration and over 10 years of planning and persuading, Vulcan XH558 finally leapt in to the air. This Souvenir DVD documents the memorable day and will last as a permanent record of a unique and historic achievement.

First Flight of Vulcan XH558

10.0 2007
The Bravest City

During the peace negotiations after the first world war, the army of the still forming Czechoslovakian state crossed the demarcation line on the river Ipoly, invaded Hungary and captured the city of Balassagyarmat in an attempt to have negotiators’ mind in Paris made up for an expansion of Czechoslovakia’ boundaries. However on 29th January 1919, local citizens and a few military units expelled the occupying Czech forces, earning the “Bravest City” title for Balassagyarmat.

The Bravest City

NR 2009
Pearl Harbor Payback/ Appointment In Tokyo

Pearl Harbor Payback: The Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor united all Americans against a common foe, and from that day forward they spared nothing in order to mobilize against the menace that continued to threaten them in the Pacific. Also included are Target Tokyo, a 1945 documentary narrated by Ronald Reagan, which follows the first bombing raid on Tokyo by B-29 Superfortresses, and another World War II short film, Air War Against Japan. Appointment in Tokyo: Featuring enemy film taken from captured Japanese newsreels, this 1945 documentary depicts MacArthur's long struggle to fight his way back to the Philippines, after his enf-rced evacuation, and beyond to Japan. From Australia, he cut through the jungle of New Guinea and up the stairway of islands, making good on his promise to return, as Adm. Chester Nimitz went from Hawaii through the Gilberts, Marshalls, and Marianas.

Pearl Harbor Payback/ Appointment In Tokyo

NR 2001
Memories of War

Part of "Pearl Harbor" Collector 4 Pack boxed set. Fifty years after Japan brought the U.S. into World War II, former adversaries met for the first time in friendship, at a retrospective symposium and air show re-enactment hosted by the Admiral Nimitz Museum. The men who has fought there reviewed the surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and Clark Field in the Philippines, gathering in Texas to show respect and to reminisce about the heroics and fortunes of war. Mixing the aviation images of contemporary artists with interviews and historic footage, this is a unique fiftieth anniversary tribute to the brave patriots on both sides, who fought for their countries and ways of life.

Memories of War

NR 2001
Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II

Two-part documentary on Japan at war, examining the Japanese treatment of Allied prisoners of war. Turning Against the West Using Japanese archive footage and interviews with both prisoners and their guards, this film investigates why, having treated their POW's comparatively well during World War I, their attitudes had altered so dramatically by World War II Death Before Surrender Conclusion of a two-part documentary on Japan at war, examining why, when the Second World War turned against Japan, so many Japanese soldiers chose death rather than surrender. Archive footage and interviews with veterans form a comprehensive portrait of a nation in crisis, revealing how Japan's inability to surrender would have terrible consequences for all the countries touched by the war in the East

Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II

7.0 2000