Australian history - Marcom Projects

Empires and war history
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EMPIRES ISLAM
EMPIRE OF FAITH
The Messenger
This program introduces the dramatic story of the
rise of Islam with the extraordinary life of the Prophet
Muhammad and his simple but revolutionary message.
This episode covers the revelation and early writing
of the Koran, the creation of the first Mosque, the
persecution suffered by the first Muslims and the major
battles fought by Muhammad and his followers to
establish the new religion.
SBS Television 2002
DVD - 6SBEMI1
Price $49.95
The Awakening
This program examines the flowering of Islam into
one of the great civilisations in history. Arabic
becomes a language of learning, and achievements
in art, architecture, science, and medicine flourish.
This episode also tells the story of the Crusades and
describes the recapture of Jerusalem by Saladin the
Great.
DVD - 6SBEMI2
Price $49.95
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The Ottomans
This program reveals the dramatic transformation of
Islam resulting from the Mongol invasion. The Ottomans
transform the Islamic world, creating a new empire that
expands westward into Christian territories. Suleyman
the Magnificent shapes the Ottomans into a military
powerhouse and an empire of extreme wealth and
sophistication, which threatens the great power centres of Europe.
DVD - 6SBEMI3
Price $49.95
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Empires Martin Luther
Martin Luther’s attack on the all-powerful Catholic
Church was a knife to the heart of an empire that had
endured for over a thousand years. But Luther would
do more than revolutionise the Church, he offered the
Christian world a new vision of man’s relationship with
God and, in turn, redefined man’s relationship with
authority in general. ‘Empires Martin Luther’ is the dramatic story of the
collapse of the medieval world and the birth of the modern age.
SBS Television 2002 Duration 2x60min
DVD - 6SBEMML
Price $29.95
Empires Queen Victoria
Episodes 1-4
At the time of Queen Victoria’s birth in 1819, England
was an agrarian society. Within a few short decades,
this small island nation would be transformed into
an industrial superpower, with an empire spanning
the globe. Queen Victoria’s empire is both the story of
this remarkable time, and an engaging portrait of a Queen who ruled
over one fifth of the world population. It is the story of the influential
figureheads that would shape a distinctively British imperialism.
Episode titles: Engines of Change, Passage to India, The Moral Crusade
and The Scramble for Africa.
SBS Television 2002 Duration 2x120min
DVD - 6SBEMQV
Price $49.95
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The Children of Federation
The story of Australia’s development as a nation as seen
through the eyes of the men who landed at Gallipoli and
forged a national spirit.
Vision Quest Duration 55min
DVD - 6VQCF
Price $132
Revealing Gallipoli
Five broadcasters from across the globe are uniting
to tell the tragic story of Gallipoli - from all sides. We
follow the campaign as it unfolded, from its beginnings
at the War Council of London, through to the ensuing
naval attack and the landings and to its end, many
months later, when Allied troops silently withdrew in
the dead of the Turkish winter. First-hand accounts tell
viewers what Gallipoli looked, felt and smelled like, and remarkable 3D
archival images bring these scenes to life. Animated maps illustrate
the forbidding terrain the soldiers faced, and illuminate the strategies
behind the conflict.
ABC Television 2005 FIRM SALE ONLY Duration 90min
DVD - 6ABREVG
Price $110
Gallipoli Dawn Service 2006
This one hour program begins with a six-minute
introduction entitled “Spirit of Place”. Featuring a
musical performance and evocative lighting of the
Gallipoli cliffs and gullies, it is set against a montage
of poignant images of the Gallipoli landing 91 years
ago. This is followed by the 50-minute Gallipoli Dawn
Service - a formal commemorative military service
featuring a Call to Commemoration, readings, hymns and the formal
wreath laying.
ABC Television 2006 FIRM SALE ONLY Duration 60min
DVD - 88ABGAL6
Price $55
Road to Tokyo
By late 1944, the worst of World War II appears to be over, but the
conflict in the Pacific is about to hot up and it will be a long road to
Tokyo for the Allies... Combining interviews and vivid archival footage,
this is an eyewitness account of an often forgotten episode in history,
providing a social context as well as a military overview of the titanic
struggle to defeat Japan. For Australia, it is signposted with some of
the bloodiest campaigns and most appalling events of the war - and
the memory of 8031 POWs who would never come home. “Excellent
historical documentary...Road to Tokyo is a prime example of wartime
historical documentary at its best.” Jim Schembri, The Age, 11/8/2005
A Film Australia National Interest Program with the assistance of the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation 2005 Duration 56min PG
DVD - 88FARTT
Price $105
Japan in Ruins - Tokyo, the Day
the War Ended Price of Peace
It is the day after the war. Nine million Japanese are
homeless. Three million have been killed in the war
and 1.3 million of these were civilians who died in
the massive American bombing campaign of which
the atomic bombing was only a part. It is only recently
that the Japanese themselves have begun to show a growing desire to
know and understand this pre-war to post-war period: the invasion of
China in 1931, the Pacific War from 1942, the conditions of surrender in
1945, followed by the forced reconstruction at the price of memory and
denial and under the authority of the victorious Americans. The film is
structured around the procedure established by the Americans for this
surrender ceremony in the Bay of Tokyo.
SBS Television 2005 Duration 2x50min
DVD - 6SBJR
Price $198
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