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Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940 Drama Engineers Feature films Great Britain Great Britain. Army Officers Attitudes Drama Radar South African War, 1899-1902 Drama World War, 1914-1918 Great Britain Drama World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain Drama World War, 1939-1945 Radar DramaSummary: A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CASSummary: Based on cartoonist David Low's parody of the old-fashioned British professional soldier, set in his ways and unable to adapt to the brutality of modern war. This story follows the career of Clive Candy, at first an idealistic, young Boer War hero, then a brigadier general, serving honorably in World War I. Finally, by World War II, he has become a bald, overweight, querulous old man, angry...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2006