Assignment Manitoba (1969)
This is a travelogue of Manitoba featuring Richard Joseph, travel editor for Esquire Magazine visiting friends in Manitoba, and seeing the sights. There are shots of the Winnipeg airport, a night out in Winnipeg, a rodeo, and relaxing by a hotel pool. There is footage of horse racing at Assiniboia Downs, road and driving scenes, boating, sailing, waterskiing, and flying in a plane. The film also includes footage of Lower Fort Garry, the Paddlewheel Queen, International Peace Gardens, the Brandon Fair, camping, fishing, Clear Lake, Riding Mountain National Park, and golf. There is also footage of the Flin Flon Trout Festival including the flour packing contest, making bannock, the Gold Rush Canoe Derby, and the prize-winning 42 pound trout.
From the Archives of Manitoba
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Murder Under the Sun: Japanese War Crimes
Over 14 dreaful years between 1932 and 1945, Japan went on a rampage of war and atrocity beyond comprehension. The Japanese had taken over 320,000 Allied prisoners, and their warrior code of Bushido said, "Do not survive to suffer the dishonour of capture." Surrender made captives subhuman.
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Kaiserschlacht (1918)
This military documentary looks at the last great German offensive of the First World War, the so-called 'Kaiserschlacht', or 'Emperor's Battle'. Dubbed 'Operation Michael', this 1918 offensive saw the German Army amass 6,000 artillery pieces and a million troops to launch a devastating blow on the unsuspecting British and French lines. Yet, after some of the bloodiest fighting of the entire war, and despite impressive initial German gains, the 'Kaiserschlacht' was doomed to failure as the Germans ran out of men and equipment. After having broken the offensive and three years of stalemate, the Allies were able to finally defeat the German Army in the field. Features archive footage, expert analysis and period imagery.
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Culloden (1746) History of Warfare
The moor was covered in blood and our men looked like so many butchers rather than Christian soldiers. A British soldier. The dramatic story of the last charge of the Highland Clans. On a barren Scottish moor in April 1746, the tired and hungry men of the last Highland army made their final desperate charge against a well-disciplined British force led by the Duke of Cumberland. Despite their incredible courage and valour, the result was a foregone conclusion the clan warriors met a terrible end. It was to be the defeat and ruin of the Jacobite cause... forever. This is the moving story of the last great battle to be fought on British soil. Culloden Moor features spectacular, accurate battle reconstructions and re-enactments, plus moving footage shot on Culloden Moor as it is today. The programme¹s dramatised eye-witness accounts, period imagery and computer-generated maps combine perfectly to provide a superb and accurate account of a crucial day in British history. Featuring expert comment and analysis by Dr David Chandler, the world¹s most foremost military historian and former head of War Studies at Sandhurst.
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The War Game (1965)
Peter Watkins’ controversial and harrowing depiction of the effects of a nuclear attack on England hit the headlines when it was banned on the grounds of being too graphic and horrifying. It single-handedly opened up the nuclear debate and went on to theatrical success on both sides of the Atlantic. In spite of winning an Oscar, two Society of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards and a Special Prize at the Venice Film Festival, The War Game remained un-shown on British television for more than 20 years.
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Culloden (1964)
Culloden was broadcast on the BBC, December 15, 1964. The film by Peter Watkins was a remarkable achievement, boldly combining documentary filming techniques and historical re-enactments to vivid effect.
It depicted the 1746 battle and its bloody aftermath, when the English army, commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, defeated the forces of Charles Edward Stuart – Bonnie Prince Charlie – and brutally suppressed the second Jacobite rebellion. There was some criticism of the violence depicted but the program was a critical success, and became a landmark documentary.
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Keeping the Old Game Alive (1983)
An examination of the contemporary probable events if the NATO and Warsaw Pact forces had entered full scale conventional war at the Inter-German border.
Gwynne Dyer hosts
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Jack the Ripper: the Final Solution (1980)
In an attempt to solve the mystery, Stephen Knight concluded that five women-Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly-were murdered in 1888 to cover up a secret marriage between Prince Albert Victor, and Annie Elizabeth Crook, a working class Irish Catholic girl. Knight's main source, Joseph Gorman (Annie Crook's grandson, Walter Sickert's self-proclaimed son with Annie's daughter Alice Margaret Crook), later retracted the story and admitted to the press that it was a hoax.
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The Gallic Wars
The Gallic Wars consist of campaigns from 58 BC to 53 BC when Julius Caesar and his Roman legions conquer Gaul and Britannia.
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Mill Times
This animated program centers on a small New England community similar to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where Samuel Slater established America's first textile mill. Live action hosted by David Macaulay, takes viewers from Manchester, England, to Lowell, Massachusetts, explaining technological changes that transformed the making of textiles, a key component of the Industrial Revolution sweeping across Europe and America in the late 18th century.
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Tony Wilson interviews Bill Drummond about The Manual
Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty had a number one hit as The Timelords. They took the knowledge they had collected creating their freak novelty hit, “Doctorin’ the Tardis,” and issued a book called The Manual to share it.
In this interview with the late Tony Wilson, Drummond laid out his approach to “getting to the top of the castle.”
This is before the KLF became known as an Acid House force.
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Who Killed the KLF?
"Who Killed the KLF?" explores the rise and fall of the KLF in the 1980s and 1990s, touching upon themes that perfectly capture the 21st century zeitgeist. A tale as intriguing as it is bonkers"
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The Experimental City
Alarmed by the growing environmental crisis in 1960’s America, a visionary scientist and a team of committed experts plan a domed city for 250,000 people whose futuristic technology and innovative design will eradicate the pollution and waste of the modern city, and lead the way toward a new, 21st-Century way of urban life. But before the city of the future breaks ground on a virgin site in isolated northern Minnesota, rural citizens and mistrustful environmentalists rise up in protest, doubtful of its pollution-free promises.
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Public Image Ltd. Check It Out 1979
The interview segment from Check It Out, 1979. The band, in a style only they possess, handle an ambush interview. The Angelic Upstarts, an Oi! outfit from Tyneside, critique Johnny and mates.
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Buchanan on being called an "Isolationist"
Pejorative: a word or phrase that has negative connotations or that is intended to disparage or belittle.
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Hypnosis and Beyond
An exploration of the powers of the human mind and how hypnosis could hold the key to unlocking them. Hosted by William Shatner.
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Wild West Tech: The Unexplained
Lights in the sky, strange sounds in the woods, and vicious attacks that couldn't be easily explained away: the Wild West was overflowing with mysterious and unexplained happenings.
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The Confederates
This documentary examines the history of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, focusing in particular on General Robert E. Lee's Northern Virginia army, which came so close to defeating the Federal Army. Featuring large-scale battle reconstructions, as well as dramatised 'eye witness' accounts and expert analysis.
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Hoplite Warfare
The nature of infantry warfare in the Peloponnesian Wars between the Greek city states of Athens and Sparta in 450 BC. The hoplites were the regular infantry of both sides, armed with the long thrusting spear and fighting in powerful phalanxes, but it was the Spartans who used them to greater effect, eventually defeating Athens and subjugating her utterly. The mighty armoured warriors at the heart of Greek legend were famous Hoplites. Fighting shoulder to shoulder, armed with their long thrusting spears and colourful shields, these were the men who dominated the battlefields of the ancient world during the conflicts of the Peloponnesian Wars.
In 450 BC, war erupted between the two great powers of ancient Greece, the Athenians and the Spartans. By the time the war had finished, the army, navy and city of Athens would be in ruins.
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Hitler the Final Chapter (1992)
An account of the discovery of Adolf Hitler's corpse by Soviet forces in Berlin in 1945 and the subsequent actions taken by Soviet authorities to dispose of the body. It includes contemporary interviews with Russian witnesses present at the time of the discovery.
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Theories of Immanuel Velikovsky (1964)
The unorthodox cosmological theories of Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, in conversation with author Eric Larrabee. Velikovsky, who had by this time (1964) already become an enfant terrible in the academic world -- despite his advanced age and international reputation -- maintained that many things relegated to the distant past and the product of slow evolution had in fact occurred in historical times. Perhaps his most famous work was "Worlds in Collision", which reexamined the stories of the Bible and the folklores of many cultures, and coordinated them with catastrophic events in the solar system. His work also re-calibrates ancient Egyptian and Greek history.
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The Black King of Zimbabwe
The proud era of African warriors came to an end when the last king of the Matabele, Lobengula, when fleeing hit the troops of Cecil Rhodes. The African ruler disappeared without a trace and with him all his possessions, gold, diamonds and ivory.The treasures that Lobengula was hiding from whites, is still in Zimbabwe waiting to be foud, somewhere between rivers the Limpopo, the Shangani and the Zambesi.
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Diamonds of the Orange River
Pure beauty, ultimate perfection, every stone a miracle itself. The contemporary diamond era begins in South Africa. Less than a hundred years ago the first discoveries were made on the banks of the Orange River. It would mean the beginning of the hi-tech technology searching to the seabed of the Atlantic.
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The Treasure of the Desert Fox
The legendary treasure of General Rommel. A former SS man breaks the silence and tells what happened then. The Nazis offered northern Italian Jews the opportunity to buy their own freedom. Gold collected in this way was stored in the vaults of the Bank of Tunis. They were brought in lead coffins on board a German speedboat and then at the Corsican coast transferred to an old Italian fishing boat. Allied bombers fired the boat, causing it to sink. Thus there near Corsica ended an estimate sixty thousand, six hundred pounds of gold on the seabed.
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