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Douglas MacArthur
1880 - 1964
General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964) with
aide Col. Lloyd Lehrbas in Lingayen
Gulf in
January 1945
The
Douglas MacArthur Story
Documentary
from The Big Picture series narrated by Walter Cronkite
Documentary from the Biography series
American
Caesar
1983 documentary series about presented
by film director John Huston; based on a 1978 biography by
author William Manchester (4 hrs., 3 min.)
MacArthur
1999 American Experience PBS documentary series
Part 1. Destiny
N. A.
Part 2. The Politics of War
(1 hr. 52 min.)
or
MacArthur
1977 movie with Gregory
Peck (2 hrs. 10 min.)
Note: In the movie, Leyte Beach is presented as a spot on the west coast of
Luzon Island. Leyte
Beach is actually far to the south, on the east coast of Leyte Island.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeFEJcX5S1w
Movie
Nation Mourns MacArthur
Newsreel
Impressive Tribute to MacArthur
Newsreel
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Winston Churchill
1874 - 1965
Winston
Leonard Spencer Churchill
1874
- 1965
Winston Churchill
A Giant of the Century
Documentary
Churchill's First War
Young Winston at War with the Afghans
1898
Lecture by Con Coughlin
British cavalry charge at Omdurman
(In the Sudan in 1898)
Excerpt from the 1972 movie Young Winston
Preview for the 1972 movie Young Winston
Winston Churchill
First Lord of the Admiralty
Episode from the
series The Great War
Winston Churchill
The Wilderness Years, 1929 - 1939
The Forgotten Years 1945 - 1965
Documentary with David Reynolds
Churchill
4-part 1992 documentary from Biography with Martin Gilbert
Part 1. Renegade and Turncoat
or
or as
1. The Maverick Politician
With
intro by Biography host
Part 2. To Conquer or to Die
or
With intro by Biography
host
Part 3. The Beginning of the End
or
With intro by Biography
host
Part 4. Never Despair
or
Winston Churchill
The Wilderness Years
With Robert Hardy (1981)
8 parts
1.
Down and Out
2.
Politics are Foul
3.
High Places
4.
A Menace in the House
5.
The Flying Peril
6.
His Own Funeral
7.
The Long Tide of Surrender
8.
What Price Churchill?
The Gathering Storm
With
Richard Burton
(1974)
The Gathering Storm
2002 movie with Tom Hiddleston
Part 1.
Part 2.
Into the Storm
2009 sequel to The Gathering Storm, about Churchill and the Second World
War
In 10 clips:
Churchill and the Generals
3-part 1979 documentary
Churchill - The Man Behind the Myth
3-part documentary from the program Britography
1. The Path to Power
2. The War Years
3. Victory and Defeat
Winston Churchill
Four Score Years and Ten
Documentary (09:22)
The Valiant Man
State funeral (TV broadcast)
Winston Churchill Lying in State
The State Funeral of Winston Churchill
Brief
This Was A Man
British Pathé
The Legacy of Winston
Churchill
Lecture by Vernon Bogdanor
Gresham College
January 2015
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Dwight David Eisenhower
1890 - 1969
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890
- 1969)
Death of Dwight Eisenhower (1969)
Huntley-Brinkley NBC News
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President Eisenhower
State Funeral
Washington D.C.
1969
British Pathé
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaYAPSTcM3c
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Story
The Big Picture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN2P5rSxuBU
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pja_hBTJjbA
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Charles De Gaulle
1890 - 1970
Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
The Death
of Charles De Gaulle (1970)
ABC-TV announcement
Obsèques du général de Gaulle
Institut National de l'Audiovisuel
Statue of Charles de Gaulle in Paris, France
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Lord Louis Mountbatten
1900 - 1979
Admiral Lord
Louis Mountbatten,
1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
(1900 -
1979)
Lord
Louis Mountbatten
Funeral of Mountbatten (1979)
Wedding of Lord Louis Mountbatten and Edwina
Ashley
Pathe newsreel (1922)
Lord Mountbatten Receives Freedom of City Of London
1946 Pathé
newsreel
Lord Mountbatten Speaks on Antisubmarine Warfare
Pathé
newsreel, Canada (1958)
Mountbatten .
The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Earl Mountbatten discusses the 12-part television programme in an interview
First transmitted on 20 March 1969
12 programmes
(50 min. each)
Start here:
1, The Kings Depart
2.
The King's Ships were at Sea
3.
Azure Main
4. The Stormy Winds
5.
United We Conquer
6.
The Imperial Enemy
7.
The March to Victory
8.
The Meaning of Victory
9.
The Last Viceroy
10.
Fresh Fields
11.
Full Circle
12.
A Man of this Century
27th
August 1979
Pathé
newsreel from the series A Day that Shook the World
Mountbatten: Death of a Royal
Documentary about the assassination of Lord Mountbatten
by the IRA
or
Lord Mountbatten's Ceremonial Funeral
Mountbatten
Episode from the documentary series Secret Lives
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Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
Television series / ITV
1986
Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India and first British Governor-General of India,
1947 - before and after Indian independence
Nicol Williamson as Mountbatten
Janet Suzman as Edwina Mountbatten
Ian Richardson as Jawaharlal Nehru
1:49:18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvvf4-kh-jo&t=3113s
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