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People's Century is a television documentary series examining the 20th century. It was a joint production of the BBC in the United Kingdom and PBS member station WGBH Boston in the United States. [1] The series was first shown on BBC in the 1995, 1996 and 1997 television seasons before being broadcast in the US and elsewhere in the world in 1998.
The year 1945 in film involved some significant events. With 1945 being the last year of World War II , the many films released this year had themes of patriotism, sacrifices, and peace. [ 1 ] In the United States, there were more than eighteen thousand movie theatres operating in 1945, a figure that grew by a third from a decade earlier.
The Spirit of '45 is a 2013 documentary film by British director Ken Loach, focused on and celebrating the radical changes in post-war Britain under the Labour government of Clement Attlee, which came to power in 1945.
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey is the official British documentary film on the Nazi concentration camps, based on footage shot by the Allied forces in 1945. [ 3 ] The film was produced by Sidney Bernstein , then with the British Ministry of Information , [ 4 ] with Alfred Hitchcock acting as a "treatment advisor".
1945 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1945th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 945th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1940s decade.
A British Army bulldozer pushes bodies into a mass grave at Belsen, 19 April 1945. The film explores the importance of film as a medium for documenting warfare, focusing on the work of the Allied cameramen who, in 1944 and 1945, filmed the liberation of the prison, labor, and extermination camps run by the Nazis and their allies in Germany and eastern Europe.
Release date Title Notes January 18, 1936: The Oregon Trail: January 20, 1936: Dancing Feet: The Leavenworth Case: February 15, 1936: The Lawless Nineties: February 17, 1936: The Leathernecks Have Landed: February 22, 1936: The Return of Jimmy Valentine: March 2, 1936: Red River Valley: distribution only March 4, 1936: Laughing Irish Eyes ...
Occupied City is a 2023 documentary film directed and produced by Steve McQueen and based on the book Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940–1945 by Bianca Stigter. [1] [10] The film features narration by Melanie Hyams, describing the occupation of the Netherlands by Nazi Germany, juxtaposed against footage of modern-day Amsterdam echoing much of the narration.