Plymouth The War Years - DVD

Rare footage from the Imperial War Museum, British Film Institute, Movietone, Pathe, Reuters, the Huntley Film Archive and Jill Craigie's 'The Way We Live', together with some fifteen minutes of previously unpublished contemporary local film material, this video brings to the screen for the first time ever, the whole moving story of Plymouth from 1939 through to 1945. Still photography includes stunning wartime photographs from the archives of the local newspapers - the Western Morning News and Evening Herald, the Plymouth Central Library and over a hundred previously unseen shots from the Devon and Cornwall Police records.

From life in the thirties and the preparations for, and the eventual outbreak of, War...the return of HMS Exeter, the early raids, the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the late Queen Mother), the Blitz of March and April 1941, Churchill's visits...the clearing up, the later raids, the Plan for Plymouth and the parties that marked the end of the war.

See many of the people who worked so hard for king, country and the very city itself.

Men and women of the armed forces, civil defence workers, foreign allies - Americans, Australians, Canadians and many many others - are recalled, by those who can remember them. Also featured is rare German footage of the bombing raids and some outstanding colour film of the Honicknowle Carnival Week, which finished on 2nd September 1939, the day before war was declared.

The most comprehensive account of Plymouth during the War Years that you are ever likely to see. After the remarkable success of Old Plymouth - Today and Plymouth - Before the War - Alan Tibbitts of Video-Ex and local artist, historian and broadcaster Chris Robinson have, with this amazing record, now produced their most powerful documentary to date.

Duration: approx 75 minutes
Format: Region 2 DVD