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THE RED CHAPTERS
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This series traces the rise and fall of
communism in the 20th century, by
focusing on key events which took place on a single day,
and yet each set off a chain reaction or crystallised a
trend that changed the world. This series explores the
global struggle between communism and its enemies.
SBS Australia. 6SBRC
Hunt for True October
This program details the events which occurred on the
night before the 1917 October Revolution, when Lenin
set out in disguise for the Smolny Institute to harangue
his reluctant comrades to seize power. An officer mistook
him and let him proceed. We can see how history would
have changed had he been arrested.
Duration 40min
DVD - 6SBRC1
Price $121
A Fatal Stroke
This program focuses on the events surrounding the
illness and death of Lenin; the twist of fate which
robbed him of his speech and awarded Stalin with
an opportunity to ruthlessly manoeuvre his way into
power.
Duration 30min
DVD - 6SBRC2
Price $121
The Murder of Sergei Kirov
Leningrad Party Secretary Kirov was assassinated
in 1934. Stalin manipulated events to claim that his
death proved that there was a plot to bring down the
party, despite evidence that the murder was a crime of
passion. Kirov’s death was the first link to thousands of
assassinations.
Duration 30min
DVD - 6SBRC3
Price $121
The Heros of Dadu
This program recounts the story of the single most
critical incident of the Long March, when 90,000
Communists, fleeing their Kuomintang enemy, crossed
the Dadu River in 1935.
Duration 30min
DVD - 6SBRC4
Price $121
The Plays the Thing
The murderous Cultural Revolution was triggered by an
argument over Wu Han’s play ‘The Dismissal of Hai from
Office’. Mao, believing it to be a mocking parody of his
own political actions found it deeply offensive. Egged on,
he launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
in 1966.
Duration 30min
DVD - 6SBRC5
Price $121
A Rebel with a Cause
This is the epic story of Che Guevara’s life, his 1967
execution in Bolivia and the extraordinary worldwide
public reaction which shaped the modern world.
Duration 27min
DVD - 6SBRC6
Price $121
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The Great Depression - Part 1
Post war boom and bust. The Great Depression had its roots in the First
World War. We examine the efforts of various countries, including the
USA, Canada, Australia, and several in Europe, to make the transition
from war economies to more normal market conditions. It covers the
post-war boom in manufacturing and wheat production in the USA
and Canada; the prosperous “Roaring Twenties”; the effects of severe
drought conditions in North America; the economic, agricultural, and
societal conditions that led to the “Crash of ‘29”. The program uses
archival film and images to clearly depict the struggle of ordinary people
to survive. It concludes with the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in
the U.S. & his goal of returning confidence to the American people.
Classroom Video 2004 Study Notes Duration 31min
DVD - 88CVGD1
Price $99
The Great Depression - Part 2
The global hardships of the 30s, economic solutions, the road to war.
This second program concludes the Great Depression story. It begins
with the “Gold Standard”, its influence on world trade, and explains
the circular flow of a healthy economy. FDR’s “New Deal” in the USA is
covered extensively, as is the establishment of work camps in Canada
and the ensuing “On-to-Ottawa Trek”. As countries all over the world
tried to protect their domestic markets, they placed high tariffs on
imported goods; the video shows that this had the effect of worsening
the depression by bringing stagnation to world trade. The effect of
the Peace Treaty of Versailles on Germany is explained in the story of
Germany’s build-up to the Second World War. The video concludes with
Japan’s military expansion and the USA’s entry into the war.
Classroom Video 2004 Study Notes Duration 28min
DVD - 88CVGD2
Price $99
The Short Life of Anne Frank
This program tells the story of Anne Frank with
quotations from her diary, unique photographs from
the Frank Family albums and historical film extracts. It
also includes the only film footage of Anne Frank. This
program not only tells the story of Anne Frank, her diary,
her family and the secret annex, but also tells of the
Second World War and the persecution of the Jews. This is an excellent
tool in teaching about the Holocaust.
RNTV 2002 Duration 25min
DVD - 6RNLSA
Price $132
Just a Diary
This program looks at the historical circumstances
which forced Anne Frank and her family into hiding. It
contains excerpts from her diary and footage from the
period. It also shows scenes from a play based on Anne
Frank’s life.
Anne Frank Centre Duration 25min
VHS - NIJD
Price $132
Dear Kitty
Anne Frank, a German Jew, whose family fled to Amsterdam because
of Nazi persecution of the Jews, wrote a diary which has become the
best known book about the war. The diary details the last two years of
her life, spent in hiding in Amsterdam following the German invasion
of Holland in 1940.
Anne Frank Centre Duration 25min
VHS - NIDK
Price $132
Camp Memories One Survivor Remembers
This program tells the story of Gerda Weissman, a survivor of the
Holocaust. Germans invaded her town of Bielsko, Poland in August
1939. She talks about her life in slave labour camps along the Polish-
German border and on a death march at the end of the war.
Duration 39min
VHS - ITCM
Price $132