BBC Documentaries Collection

BBC Around the World in 60 Minutes (2011)



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A unique journey around the weird and wonderful planet that we call home. When Yuri Gagarin was blasted into space he became the first human to get a proper look at where we live. ‘The Earth is blue,’ he exclaimed, ‘how amazing!’ Suddenly our perspective on the world had changed forever. We thought we were going to explore the universe, yet the most extraordinary thing we discovered was our own home planet, the Earth. So what would you see during just one orbit of the Earth? Starting 200 miles above the planet, this film whisks you around the planet to show what changes in the time it takes to circumnavigate the Earth just once. We hear from British-born astronaut Piers Sellers on what it’s like to live and work in space, and also to gaze down and see how we are altering and reshaping our world.
We marvel at the incredible forces of nature that brings hundred-mile wide storms and reshapes continents, and also discover how we humans are draining seas and building cities in the middle of the desert. We also visit the wettest place on Earth, as well as the most volcanic.
Narrated by David Morrissey, this inspirational trip around the planet will make you view our home as you’ve never seen it before.


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BBC An African Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby (3 Part Series)



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Part 1 of 3

After four decades of reporting from the continent, Jonathan Dimbleby returns to Africa on a 7,000-mile journey to discover how it is changing. In the first of three

films he travels across Mali, Ghana and Nigeria. On the River Niger he meets the men who dive for sand, learns the art of mud building in the ancient town of Djenne,

and attends a court presided over by the King of the Ashanti, a former Brent council worker. In Lagos, Dimbleby looks at the thriving fashion and music businesses. In

contrast to images of a continent afflicted by war, famine, poverty and AIDS, this series offers Africa in a new and refreshing light.

Part 2 of 3

On the second leg of his illuminating journey across Africa, Jonathan Dimbleby travels 2,000 miles through East Africas Rift Valley.

Starting in Ethiopia, where he was the first journalist to report the 1973 famine, Dimbleby discovers the great strides being made to safeguard the country from future

catastrophes.

In Kenya he finds out how mobile phones are revolutionising small businesses and even the lives of Masai tribes.

In Tanzania he joins in a football match with the judges and guards of Africas own Human Rights Commission and meets the street kids in Dar-es-Salaam who are building

an international profile for their music.

Part 3 of 3

On the final leg of his 7,000-mile odyssey, Jonathan Dimbleby travels from Congo to Durban in search of the stories revealing contemporary Africa.

He learns how Chinas billion-dollar deals have rebooted African economies, once dependent on Western aid and investment.

Passing through Zambia, Jonathan survives a training session with boxing world champion Esther Phiri and meets Hugh Masekela, who shares with him his view of Africas

BBC A History of Celtic Britain (2011)



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Neil Oliver returns to continue his epic story of how Britain and its people came to be, from the height of the Bronze Age through to the age of Iron, the Celts and the first kings to the age of Rome.

Part 1: Age of Iron
Diving for 3,000-year-old treasure and pot-holing through an ancient copper mine he discovers how a golden age of bronze collapsed into social and economic crisis set against a period of sharp climate change… eventually to be replaced by a new era, of iron.

Part 2: Age of Warriors
Neil Oliver explores the age of Celtic Britain – a time of warriors, druids, and kings of unimaginable wealth. Neil encounters a celebrated warrior from 300 BC, owner of the finest Iron Age sword ever discovered. He tries his hand at divination in an effort to discover the power of Celtic priests and searches into his own DNA for clues to Celtic identity.

Part 3: Age of Invasion
Neil Oliver explores the remains of brutal Iron Age battles and Celtic rebellion as he reaches the moment when Celtic Britain was ripped apart by the world’s great empire – the Roman army.

Part 4: Age of Romans
Neil Oliver completes his epic journey through thousands of years of ancient history with the modern marvels of Rome. Digging beneath a London tower block, discovering building work from a massive stadium, and encountering the remains of an African woman who lived in York 1800 years ago – all evidence of the extraordinary multicultural modern world of Rome.


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BBC A Dangerous Place to Meet My Family (2011)



21-year-old Dean Whitney was born in Sheffield to a British dad and Yemeni mum. He has always dreamt of travelling to Yemen to meet his extended family and get in touch with his Muslim and Yemeni identity. But will his life-changing journey become a nightmare in the country now better known for international terrorism and for officially being one of the most dangerous places on earth?


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BBC Who Is Nelson Mandela?



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Lenora Crichlow goes in search of the politician behind the legend. Its aimed at younger viewers, and Crichlow mostly manages to avoid the ponderous video diaries and

sentimentality that can make these celeb-driven docs so cringeworthy. Instead she interrogates human rights campaigners, fearful Afrikaners, their poverty-stricken

neighbours and Mandelas grandson, delivering a thoughtful portrait of a complex nation.


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BBC Tsunami Five Years On (2010)



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Five years after the deadly tidal wave that hit south-east Asia on Boxing Day in 2004, the programme returns to the area to visit two communities badly affected by the tragedy, and tell the stories of how survivors are trying to rebuild their lives. In Thailand, a mother is opposing the plans of property developers to preserve the memory of her drowned daughter, while in Indonesia, villagers live under strict religious laws after blaming the catastrophe on a divine judgement.



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BBC Theos Adventure Capitalists (Complete)



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Vietnam.
Dragons Den star Theo Paphitis follows the fortunes of brave and bold British companies trying to expand in three of the worlds most dynamic emerging markets India, Brazil and Vietnam. While Britain is still stuck in a recession, these economies are booming. There couldnt be a better time than now for British businesses to seize these opportunities in some of the worlds fastest-expanding but risky markets but how easy is it going to be?

India.
Dragons Den star Theo Paphitis follows the fortunes of brave and bold British companies trying to expand in three of the worlds most dynamic emerging markets, India, Brazil and Vietnam. Theo Paphitis travels to India to see if three intrepid British companies can succeed in one of the fastest expanding economies in the world. With cultural ties going back centuries, India and Britain have many things in common. But is doing business one of them?

Brazil.
Dragons Den star Theo Paphitis follows the fortunes of brave and bold British companies trying to expand in three of the worlds most dynamic emerging markets India, Brazil and Vietnam. Theo Paphitis travels to Brazil to follow three intrepid British companies trying to succeed in one of the worlds most exciting markets. The Brazilian economy is still expanding, but what can Brits sell them that they havent already got?



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BBC The Weather Series



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Series taking a scientific look at different aspects of British weather.

Episode 1: Rain (13th April 2009)

This episode looks at rain an essential part of being British, giving us the English lawn, the sliding tackle and endless grounds for complaint, but what do we really know about it?

The programme uncovers the true shape of a raindrop, shows how and why rain falls and tells remarkable stories of how we have adapted or succumbed to this elemental force of nature, such as James Glaishers seven-mile hot air balloon ascent in 1862 and how Charles Macintosh invented the waterproof coat.

The Victorians believed that they could master the rain and push it aside, but today climate change threatens us with rain that is wilder and more unpredictable than ever.

Episode 2: Snow (20th April 2009)

This episode looks at snow, that most fleeting and beautiful of elements which endlessly fascinates us.

Using rare footage we journey into the microscopically small world of the snow crystal, finding out how a snowflake forms and why it is always six-sided.

The science of snow tests British Rails claim that the snow that crippled their rolling stock in 1991 really was the “wrong type of snow and explains how a British company is the world’s biggest producer of snow.

Episode 3: Winds (27th April 2009)

The final episode looks at wind, caused by the interaction of temperature, pressure and the earths rotation which took scientists over a thousand years to fully explain.

We witness some remarkable wind-related stories, such as the tornado that flung Dorothy Allwright and her caravan into the air and how Scottish engineer James Blyth invented the first electricity-producing wind turbine in 1887.

Once we looked to the gods to explain the wind, until science unlocked its mysteries. Today, we may have come to understand the wind but we will never master it, and we ignore this elemental force at our peril.


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BBC The Virtual Revolution (2010)



The Great Levelling?. , Episode 1

Twenty years on from the invention of the World Wide Web, Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at how it is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives. Joined by some of the webs biggest names, she investigates whether it has lived up to its early promise. In the first in this four-part series, Aleks charts the extraordinary rise of blogs, Wikipedia and YouTube, and traces an ongoing clash between the freedom the technology offers us, and our innate human desire to control and profit.

Enemy of the State?. , Episode 2

Dr Aleks Krotoski continues her investigation into how the World Wide Web is transforming our lives. In this episode, she charts how the web is forging a new brand of politics, both in democracies and authoritarian regimes. With contributions from Al Gore, Martha Lane Fox, Stephen Fry and Bill Gates, Aleks explores how interactive, unmediated sites like Twitter and Youtube have encouraged direct action and politicised young people in unprecedented numbers.

The Cost of Free. , Episode 3

Twenty years on from its invention, Dr Aleks Krotoski continues her investigation of how the World Wide Web is transforming almost every aspect of our lives. In the third programme of the series, Aleks gives the lowdown on how, for better and for worse, commerce has colonised the web – and reveals how web users are paying for what appear to be free sites and services in hidden ways.

Homo Interneticus?. , Episode 4

Dr Aleks Krotoski concludes her investigation of how the World Wide Web is transforming almost every aspect of our lives. Joined by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Al Gore and the neuroscientist Susan Greenfield, Aleks examines the popularity of social networks such as Facebook and asks how they are changing our relationships. And, in a ground-breaking test at University College London, Aleks investigates how the Web may be distracting and overloading our brains.




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BBC A History of Ancient Britain (2011) [Complete]



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A History Of Ancient Britain will turn the spotlight onto the very beginning of Britain’s story. From the last retreat of the glaciers 12,000 years ago, until the departure of the Roman Empire in the Fifth Century AD this epic series will reveal how and why these islands and nations of ours developed as they did and why we have become the people we are today. The first series transmits in early 2011 and there will be a following series in 2012.

Part 1: Age of Ice
Neil Oliver travels back to ice age Britain as he begins the epic story of how our land and its people came to be over thousands of years of ancient history. This week sees a struggle for survival in a brutal world of climate change and environmental catastrophe.

Part 2: Age of Ancestors
Neil Oliver continues the story of how today’s Britain and its people were forged over thousands of years of ancient history. It’s 4,000 BC and the first farmers arrive from Europe, with seismic consequences for the local hunter-gatherers.

Part 3: Age of Cosmology
Neil Oliver continues his journey through the world of Ancient Britain as he encounters an age of cosmological priests and some of the greatest monuments of the Stone Age, including Stonehenge itself. This is a time of elite travellers, who were inventing the very idea of Heaven itself.

Part 4: Age of Bronze
Neil Oliver reaches the end of his epic tour of our most distant past with the arrival of metals and the social revolution that ushered in a new age of social mobility, international trade, and village life.

BBC The Secret Life Of Elephants (Complete)



The Secret Life of Elephants
For the new BBC1 series The Secret Life of Elephant weve revealed the elephants hidden world – the depth of their emotions, their remarkable intelligence, and the intimate complexities of their family life. We spent three months in Kenya, filming the elephants and following the work of Iain Douglas-Hamilton and the Save the Elephants research team. We wanted to tell the stories of individual elephants, which meant we spent every hour from dawn till dusk finding and following our stars across the Samburu reserve. We focussed on the most dramatic moments in their lives a calf from the day of her birth, a bull using tactics to win a mate, a matriarch making decisions to protect her family. We followed the research team on missions across northern Kenya to protect the elephants; we see them helping a community terrorised by crop raiding bulls, uncovering an outbreak of poaching which killed two of their best known elephants, and tracing the new dangers on ancient elephant migration routes.
After weeks of hard work, we were rewarded with astonishing glimpses into the elephants lives. But we couldnt have imagined that we’d become so directly involved in a life or death operation to save a baby elephants life.

1)
First in a series of three programmes revealing the emotional and dramatic lives of elephants in Kenyas Samburu reserve.
As the day begins, there is great excitement in one elephant family when a new baby, named Breeze, is born. But her first few weeks look set to be the most dangerous of her life. Meanwhile, elephant experts Iain and Saba Douglas-Hamilton face the huge challenge of fitting a radio collar to a three-tonne female elephant with an entire herd looking out for her. Breeze faces her first big test, crossing a river, and the research team investigate when one of their best-known bull elephants is found dead in suspicious circumstances.
Back in the reserve, a young calf becomes injured and cannot keep up with his herd. His mother sticks with him, but will he survive without the support of a family? There is further tragedy when a matriarch dies. In unique footage, a herd of elephants visit her body, and appear to mourn her death.

2)
Second in the series of three programmes revealing the emotional and dramatic lives of elephants in Kenyas Samburu reserve. Baby elephant Breeze is growing up fast, but with the dry season approaching, she is about to face her biggest test yet. Meanwhile, Breezes teenage brother, Buster, seems intent on getting himself and Breeze into trouble.
Outside the reserve, more trouble is brewing as people and elephants come into conflict. Elephant expert Iain Douglas-Hamilton sends daughter Saba on a mission to help one of their best-known elephants, Mountain Bull, who is on a collision course with farmers and villagers.
Elsewhere, a marauding group of bulls cause havoc by breaking into fields and raiding crops. The team think they might have an unusual solution and will need the help of some African honey bees.
Back in the reserve, a devastating drought takes hold and Breeze and her family are forced to compete with other elephants for food and water. Will baby Breeze survive these hard times?

3)
Last in the series of three programmes featuring the emotional and dramatic lives of elephants in Kenyas Samburu reserve.
After the drought, the rains have arrived, but has baby elephant Breeze survived?
As hundreds of elephants descend on the reserve for the breeding season, the research team hit their busiest time of year. With the help of new technology, Saba Douglas-Hamilton tracks down the biggest land animals on earth: the mighty bull elephants. But even Saba is keeping her distance when Rommel, a dangerous bull who once flattened a car and tried to kill two of the team’s researchers, arrives on the scene.
Outside the reserve, there is a shocking development when Onesmas Kahindi investigates two mysterious deaths; could poachers be targeting the local elephants?
And when field researcher David Daballen finds a baby elephant in desperate trouble, he and the team must mount a life or death operation to save her.

BBC The Beauty of Maps (Complete Series)



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Documentary series looking at maps in incredible detail to highlight their artistic attributions and reveal the stories that they tell.

Episode 1: Medieval Maps (19th April 2010)

The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the largest intact Medieval wall map in the world and its ambition is breathtaking to picture all of human knowledge in a single image. The work of a team of artists, the world it portrays is overflowing with life, featuring Classical and Biblical history, contemporary buildings and events, animals and plants from across the globe, and the infamous monstrous races which were believed to inhabit the remotest corners of the Earth.

The Mappa Mundi, meaning cloth of the world, has spent most of its long life at Hereford Cathedral, rarely emerging from behind its glass case. The programme represents a rare opportunity to get close to the map and explore its detail, giving a unique insight into the Medieval mind. This is also the first programme to show the map in its original glory, revealing the results of a remarkable year-long project by the Folio Society to restore it using the latest digital technology.

The map has a chequered history. Since its glory days in the 1300s it has languished forgotten in storerooms, been dismissed as a curious monstrosity, and controversially almost sold. Only in the last 20 years have scholars and artists realised its true depth and meaning, with the map exerting an extraordinary power over those who come into contact with it. The programme meets some of these individuals, from scholars and map lovers to Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry, whose own work, the Map of Nowhere, is inspired by the Mappa Mundi.

Episode 2: City Maps (20th April 2010)

The British Library is home to a staggering 4.5 million maps, most of which remain hidden away in its colossal basement, and the programme delves behind the scenes to explore some amazing treasures in more detail. This is the story of three maps, threevisions of London over three centuries; visions of beauty that celebrate but also distort the truth. Its the story of how urban maps try to impose order on chaos.

On Sunday 2nd September 1660, the Great Fire of London began reducing most of the city to ashes, and among the huge losses were many maps of the city itself. The Morgan Map of 1682 was the first to show the whole of the City of London after the fire. Consisting of sixteen separate sheets, measuring eight feet by five feet, it took six years to complete. Morgans beautiful map symbolised the hoped-for ideal city.

In 1746 John Rocque produced at the time the most detailed map ever made of London. Like Morgans, Rocques map is all neo-Classical beauty and clinical precision, but the London it represented had become the opposite. In engravings of the time, such as Night, the artist William Hogarth shows a city boiling with vice and corruption. Stephen Walter’s contemporary image, The Island, plays with notions of cartographic order and respectability. His extraordinary London map looks at first glance to be just as precise and ordered as his hero Rocque’s but, looking closer, it includes 21st century markings such as favourite kebab vans and sites of personal heartbreak.

Episode 3: Atlas Maps (21st April 2010)

The Dutch Golden Age saw map-making reach a fever pitch of creative and commercial ambition. This was the era of the first ever Atlases elaborate, lavish and beautiful. This was the great age of discovery and marked an unprecedented opportunity for mapmakers who sought to record and categorise the newly acquired knowledge of the world. Rising above the many mapmakers in this period was Gerard Mercator, inventor of the Mercator projection, who changed mapmaking forever when he published his collection of world maps in 1598 and coined the term Atlas.

The programme looks at some of the largest and most elaborate maps ever produced, from the vast maps on the floor of the Royal Palace in Amsterdam, to the 24 volume atlas covering just the Netherlands, to the largest Atlas in the world, The Klencke Atlas. It was made for Charles II to mark his restoration in 1660. But whilst being one of the British Libraries most important items, it is also one of its most fragile so hardly ever opened. This is a unique opportunity to see inside this enormous and lavish work, and see the world through the eyes of a King.

Episode 4: Cartoon Maps (22nd April 2010)

The series concludes by delving into the world of satirical maps. How did maps take on a new form, not as geographical tools, but as devices for humour, satire or storytelling? Graphic Artist Fred Rose perfectly captured the public mood in 1880 with his General Election maps featuring Gladstone and Disraeli, using the maps to comment upon crucial election issues still familiar to us today. Technology was on the satirists side with the advent of high-speed printing allowing for larger runs at lower cost. In 1877, when Rose produced his Serio Comic Map of Europe at War, maps began to take on a new direction and form, reflecting a changing world.

Roses map exploited these possibilities to the full using a combination of creatures and human figures to represent each European nation. The personification of Russia as a grotesque-looking octopus, extending its tentacles around the surrounding nations, perfectly symbolised the threat the country posed to its neighbours.




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BBC The Museum Season 1 Complete



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Documentary series that goes behind the scenes at the British Museum.
Focusing on the conservators who care for some of the BMs most
important and fragile treasures.



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BBC Terry Jones Barbarians (2006)



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Terry Jonesu2019 Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was presented and written by Terry Jones, challenging the received Roman and Roman Catholic notion of the barbarian. It could be compared to his earlier series Terry Jonesu2019 Medieval Lives in that it questions aspects of history that everyone takes for granted.

So you think you know everything about the Romans? They gave us sophisticated road systems, chariots and the modern-day calendar. And of course they had to contend with barbarian hordes who continually threatened the peace, safety and prosperity of their Empire. Didnu2019t they?

Terry Jonesu2019 Barbarians takes a completely fresh approach to Roman history. Not only does it offer us the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, it also reveals that most of the people written off by the Romans as uncivilized, savage and barbaric were in fact organized, motivated and intelligent groups of people, with no intentions of overthrowing Rome and plundering its Empire.

In his new book and the accompanying four-part BBC Two television series Terry Jones argues that we have been sold a false history of Rome that has twisted our entire understanding of our own history. Terry asks what did the Romans ever do for us?

This is the story of Roman history as seen by the Britons, Gauls, Germans, Greeks, Persians and Africans. The Vandals didnu2019t vandalize u2013 the Romans did. The Goths didnu2019t sack Rome u2013 the Romans did. Attila the Hun didnu2019t go to Constantinople to destroy it, but because the Emperoru2019s daughter wanted to marry him. And far from civilizing the societies they conquered the Romans often destroyed much of what they found.

Terry Jones travels round the geography of the Roman Empire and through 700 years of history u2013 bringing wit, irreverence, passion and the very latest scholarship to transform our view of the legacy of the Roman Empire and the creation of the modern world.


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BBC Shooting the War (2010)



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Men

Remarkably, some soldiers took their amateur film cameras to the front lines and filmed the everyday life of the soldier and airman in battle. In Britain the practice was discouraged, but German soldiers were encouraged to film the impending triumphs of the Third Reich.

This programme features the amateur films of four fighting men: Britons Derek Brown and Leslie Fowler, and Germans Paul Kellermann and Klaus Eismann. Brown took his camera into the Burma campaign, while Fowler filmed from the ship he was commanding on the morning of D-Day.

Eismann, a member of the Luftwaffe, filmed as the Germans overran Poland in the first days of war. Kellermann used his camera as the Wehrmacht occupied Paris and later in the drive across Russia and into Stalingrad, where, though he died, his films survived.

Luftwaffe member Karl Plote filmed the preparation and execution of bombing raids on SW England and in Naumburg, fireman Hans Brunswig filmed the aerial bombardment on his city.

Through these films we can relive the experiences of men in the heart of war. Kellermann filmed both his domestic life and his experiences as a soldier in a reconnaissance unit on the Western and Eastern fronts. He had a sharp eye for detail and the ability to get in close, and provides us with a detailed look at the life of his family before and during the war. His niece is still alive and remembers many of the people that feature in the films.

The picture that he portrays of soldiers lives are stunning. Somehow he managed to capture the humanity of the people he filmed comrades, as well as POWs, in situations of extreme inhumanity. He was killed on the Eastern front in February 1942, but he left behind some vivid letters, written to his family, describing his experiences.


Children

Series looking at how the Second World War was documented by German and British home movie makers.

This programme is about the experience of children during the war, seen through the films of them shot by parents, friends and teachers. The films, and the recollections of the children in them, capture the initial novelty of war, but also the later reality of death and loss.

In Britain, filmmakers were on hand to witness the first event of war, evacuation. Eric Powell, a young cine enthusiast from Wiltshire, filmed the arrival of Marion, a girl from London, as she became part of his family. The recollections bring the reality of the transformation of children’s lives to the viewer.

Film shot by the head of Elworth School in Cheshire is recalled by teacher Veronica Kirk and pupil John Owen. The film shows the way the school adapted to war – the school garden turned over to vegetables, children conducting first aid, air raid shelter practice and reality of air attack.

It was much the same in Germany and those looking back on their childhood recall the impact of Hitler on them, the changes at school and at home, the terror of the Jewish school child and the sorrow of the children at the end of the war, living in destitution as their parents were forced to sell toys for bread.

Rainer and Wolfgang Fritz grew up in Stuttgart and remember how their father filmed the building of the community air raid shelter. He filmed his family through the war and was on hand, with the camera, when the family house was destroyed by bombing in 1944.

Life for Jewish child Inge Deutschkron was even worse. She grew up in Berlin and attended the Jewish school in the city. Most of her classmates died in concentration camps, but she stayed in Berlin, in hiding, and survived.

Women

Series looking at how WW2 was documented by both German and British home movie makers.

Women who were drawn into the war were workers, mothers and combatants for the first time in history and those experiences were filmed, sometimes by women themselves.

In Germany, amateur filmmaker Elisabeth Wilms shot everyday life of women in her home city of Dortmund and as those lives changed she continued to record events, including the stunning films of the destitution experienced by women in the immediate aftermath of the blitz on her home town.

In Britain, Rosie Newman was doing very much the same, filming women as war changed their lives. She had remarkable access to the military and was able to capture the lives of woman at war in a way few others could match.

Jean Riescos father filmed her life as she became a woman at the start of the war. Jean recalls how everyone felt that there was no point in being cautious, how she got married and had a child. Other women joined the war effort, some working for the first time. Anne Richmond joined the Land Army, Iris Watts made armaments and Betty Hockey danced for the troops.

It was the same in Germany. Renate Teller became a nurse, while Ilse Rohde, a member of the BDM, became a factory worker. The Jewish woman Esther Bejarano was a slave labourer in Auschwitz, her life saved by becoming a member of the Auschwitz orchestra.


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