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http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-5774892958354867332&hl=en#docid=325207440181384086
Food, Weapon of Conquest
Watch this video on nfb.ca
This 1940s wartime newsreel shows the food shortage in Nazi-occupied countries that have been forced to hand over their farm produce to Germany, leaving their own populations hungry. Part of the Canada Carries On series.
Posted in Uncategorized on +00002009-09-01T13:48:28+00:00302009bUTCTue, 01 Sep 2009 13:48:28 +0000 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I found a great educational resource today developed by the founder of Wikipedia, Dr. Larry Sanger
The site is called Watchhow
The site states..
…imagine collecting all the best free educational videos made for children, and making them findable and watchable on one website. Then imagine creating many, many more such videos.
Just think: hundreds of thousands of [...]
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London 1940
A news reel illustrating how French Canadians soldiers replaced the Welsh Guards at Buckingham Palace
more about "1940 French Canadian Guards of Buckin…", posted with vodpod
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During the Suez Crisis of 1956, Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson – later Canada’s 14th Prime Minister brought into common use the term peacekeeping
Since 1947, Canadian Forces have been involved in 72 international operations leading up to the declaration of the [...]
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Over two million allies soldiers were stationed in wartime Britain, over 500,000 Canadians were stationed in Britain between 1939 and 1945, combined with the 1 1/2 million American men, these men had a variety of affairs with local British women.
The BBC series Sex, Love and War details the stories of British women and their [...]
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In 1944 the Nazi created the Britisches Freikorps or British Free Corps which was the brainchild of John Amery a son of a British cabinet minister. This Nazi recruitment effort focused on recruiting POW’s which included three Canadians.
Edwin Barnard Martin of the Essex Scottish Regiment(Captured at Dieppe [...]
Posted in Comedy, World War Two on +00002009-01-15T16:19:17+00:00312009bUTCThu, 15 Jan 2009 16:19:17 +0000 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This BBC documentary posted at GoogleVideos looks at the clampdown on satire and other undesirable comedians as the Third Reich grew in power. The plight of specific groups (or “art”) tends to get lost in the scale of the much bigger human cost of WWII.
However here the film looks at how satire and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on +00002009-01-15T15:32:04+00:00312009bUTCThu, 15 Jan 2009 15:32:04 +0000 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Canadian Military Documentaries
A collection of short documentaries detailing the contributionof Canadians from WW One to the Afghanistan conflict.
The Power and the Grace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEpFmKx9yt8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEW1jpOVdFU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arp6FEZqs
Canadian Nurses at the Front
Nursing sisters played a major role during the First World War. Between 1914 and 1918, 2,504 served in Europe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPJ4JXp5wd8
World War One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3QJRM7tCI0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdJVfLA38tA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNdnx42ejug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNerOTB-OxQ
World War Two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Znr-eaov20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujlYmDWFI1I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvZCDfhoNxA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYo-FI8K4Vo
Canada at War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjquyqIH-4s
http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=Canadian+military+documentaries&hl=en&emb=0#
http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=Canadian+military+documentaries&hl=en&emb=0#
Tribute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNpJ4cNPBxE&feature=related
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