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How to stop an enemy advance. This clip comes from a 1943 filmed produced for the School of Infantry to explain how to handle weapons and tactics of firing. Film: IWM DRA 444
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You can find the film in full on our film collections website here: bit.ly/4gBDsjC

USE OF FIRE [Main Title]

A military training film made by the School of Infantry to explain how to handle weapons and tactics of firing.

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You can find the film in full on our film collections website here: bit.ly/4gBDsjC

USE OF FIRE [Main Title]

A military training film made by the School of Infantry to explain how to handle weapons and tactics of firing.

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‘Mines by the thousands’ This newsreel clip from 1942, filmed inside a munitions factory, shows how sea mines were produced during the Second World War. Film: IWM WPN 36
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WAR PICTORIAL NEWS NO 36 [Main Title]

An edition of the British official newsreel "War Pictorial News", produced by the Ministry of Information, Middle East.

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British infantry, one holding a captured MP-40, ride on a Sherman in Holland during 8th Corps' advance, 24 September 1944. Image: IWM (B 10287)
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One for spider season! This clip from a British Second World War newsreel shows how spider silk was used in the manufacture of optical gunsights. Film: IWM UKY 450
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WORKER AND WAR-FRONT MAGAZINE ISSUE NO 1 [Main Title]

A newsreel highlighting the part played by ordinary working men and women in Britain's war effort featuring reports on a scheme to enable women war workers ...

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A French Cavalry division passes by the camera during General Gouraud's review of Cavalry regiments employed in the Marne area, Western Front, July 1918. Film: IWM 508-70
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'The effect of atomic weapons on troops in the field' This clip comes from a 1954 training film describing the main effects of flash, heat, blast and radiation from a nuclear bomb. Film: IWM DRA 1089
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THE EFFECTS OF ATOMIC WEAPONS ON TROOPS IN THE FIELD [Main Title]

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Churchill inspects building damage in the East End following an air raid at the start of the Blitz, 8 September 1940. Film: IWM AYY 32A
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'Park for captured guns' British and Australian troops pile up captured German guns, from heavy calibres to machine guns, in Flanders during the Allied advance to victory, September 1918. Find the full footage here: bit.ly/4r7uwZR Film: IWM 508-80
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'The call goes forth' This clip comes from a 1942 British government film on the Soviet mobilisation following the German invasion. Titled 'Five Men of Velish', the film covers Soviet training as well as the brutal nature of the war on the Eastern Front. Film: IWM CSU 210
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THE FIVE MEN OF VELISH : a document from the people's war in Russia [Main Title]

A dual-purpose film, portraying Russian popular resistance to the German invasion and, in explaining that resistance, directing a propaganda message at the ...

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A 'midget submarine' of the Royal Navy filmed during trials in 1950. Film: IWM NAT 4542
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The submarine in this footage is XE12, one of twelve XE-class submarines built for the Royal Navy in 1944. This footage shows the submarine submerging, scenes inside, and a final shot of a frogman entering the submarine.
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Men of the 1st Battalion Hereford Regiment receive a warm welcome from the inhabitants of Pas and Avesnes in France as they ride through the two villages in Bedford QL 3-ton lorries, 1 September 1944. Film: IWM A70 145-4
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General Umezu Yoshijiro signs the formal Japanese instrument of surrender on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945. General Douglas MacArthur and Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland are also present. Image: IWM A 30427
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A 'Crossing the Line' ceremony filmed aboard HMS Hood during the goodwill tour of the Royal Navy's special service squadron around the world, November 1923 to September 1924. Film: IWM 842
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A light-hearted initiation process, the custom sees sailors "tried" before the Court of Neptune and assessed as worthy seafarers, which takes place when a ship and new recruits cross the equator. This ceremony featured a wide variety of fancy-dress.
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This footage comes from a film sponsored by the Admiralty, titled 'Britain's Birthright'. Find it in IWM's film collections here: bit.ly/3Ul3DFH

BRITAIN'S BIRTHRIGHT [Main Title]

The goodwill tour of the Royal Navy's special service squadron around the world, November 1923 to September 1924.

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