A few days after the declaration of war, in August 1914, a small group of British Naval vessels set off on an unusual but vitally important mission. Using grappling hooks,…
This short, award winning, documentary takes us back to World War 2 and the pilots who flew unarmed and alone over Germany to take reconnaissance photographs.
Otto Franz Rudolf Feyerabend was born on August 28, 1876, at Bönkeim in East Prussia. His parents were farmers and, as a young man, he followed in their footsteps. In…
In 1956, Kevin Brownlow, a 17-year-old trainee editor with World Wide Films, was carrying cans of film, from their offices in Soho Square, when he saw something that was to…
‘Overnight the streets seemed to have turned Nazi,’ British journalist Michael Davidson, reported from Berlin in 1933. ‘Overnight the air, which before had been soft and warm and human, had…