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American Revolutionary War: 2006 Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man: Robin Shuffield Documentary: Revolution, Burkina Faso: 2007 Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation: Charles Burnett: Historical drama: Namibian War of Independence: 2007 The War on Democracy: John Pilger: Historical drama: US Imperialism: 2008 Baler: Mark Meily: Historical drama ...
Nations were new to cinema and its capability to spread and influence mass sentiment at the start of World War I.The early years of the war were experimental in regard to using films as a propaganda tool, but eventually became a central instrument for what George Mosse has called the "nationalization of the masses" as nations learned to manipulate emotions to mobilize the people for a national ...
A Canadian television series based on the book of the same name. The series deals with the experiences of Black Loyalists during the Revolutionary War. Bounty: 2021 Members of the Penobscot Nation in Maine present the difficult history of around 70 cases of government-endorsed scalping of Indigenous people. [16] Video link: 55 Days in Peking: 1963
During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence. A, D 1937 UK A Romance in Flanders: Lost on the Western Front: Maurice Elvey: Set during the First World War with the British Expeditionary Force in Flanders. D, R 1937 UK
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
Imperialism before World War I had been on the rise since the mid-nineteenth century because industrialization had caused a growing need for natural resources. Regions like Africa and India had been settled by European countries in order to make profit and extend power. [ 2 ]
During World War I, both nations fought on the Allied side. With the cooperation of its ally Great Britain, Japan's military took control of German bases in China and the Pacific , and in 1919 after the war, with U.S. approval, was given a League of Nations mandate over the German islands north of the equator, with Australia getting the rest.
The European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1996) 816pp; Watson, Alexander. Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I (2014) Wawro, Geoffrey. A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire (2014) Williamson, Samuel R. Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War ...