Featured video: D-Day landings

D-Day landings.
Supports: textbooks 'WW2',
Playing time: 28 min

Video playlist

Note for teachers:
Treat your class to watching simple wartime recipes being cooked in seven delicious episodes that students can also do at home. Get into the rationing habit - and find out how healthy it was. (See the food gallery at the foot of this listing.)

Note also we have included two original one hour films in this listing. There is nothing better than this for getting the real atmosphere, but you may need to skip to the bits you want. Also use them for your own research.

The war (version 1)
Introduction, setting the scene for the war, spoken in modern voice.
Supports: textbook 'Children in the Second World War'.
Playing time: 15 min (V337)

The war (version 2)
Introduction, setting the scene for the war, spoken in a 1940s voice.
Supports: textbook 'Children in the Second World War'.
Playing time: 15 min (V338)

Hitler Youth
Describes how children became embroiled in Germany's war effort.
Supports: textbook 'Children in the Second World War'.
Playing time: 7 min (V339)

Why we fight
Note: this is a 1 hour original movie made during the war. It is a classic, but you may want to extract parts from it.
Supports: textbook 'Children in the Second World War'.
Playing time: 60 min (V340)

Evacuation
Explains why children were evacuated.
Supports: textbook 'Children in the Second World War'.
Playing time: 4 min (V341)

Children's health
Talks about children's health, even in wartime.
Supports: textbook 'Children in the Second World War'.
Playing time: 1 min (V342)

Battle of Britain
Describes the greatest air battle of all time. This is a classic original movie and lasts 1 hr. You may wish to pick and choose from among it.
Supports: textbook 'Children in the Second World War'.
Playing time: 56 min (V343)

Battle of the Atlantic
Explains what living in a villa was like.
Supports: textbook 'Children in the Second World War'.
Playing time: 5 min (V347)

Rationing
Explains what ration books were like.
Supports: textbook 'Children in the Second World War'.
Playing time: 3 min (V348)

Ration card
This video shows a ration card that was used when food was scarce during the Second World War.
Supports: textbook 'Children in the Second World War'.
Playing time: 2 min (V1129)

Wartime food
Explains what some wartime foods were like.
Supports: textbook 'Children in the Second World War'.
Playing time: 9 min (V349)

Blitzkrieg
Shows the Blitzkrieg. Advisory: older children only.
Supports: textbook 'Children in the Second World War'.
Playing time: 2 min (V351)

D-Day preparations
Preparations for D-Day.
Supports: textbook 'Children in the Second World War'.
Playing time: 15 min (V102)

D-Day landings
An alternative to the video above.
Supports: textbook 'Children in the Second World War'.
Playing time: 28 min (V103)

D-Day landings
An alternative to the video above. Shows soldiers marching through England and landing zone from above.
Supports: textbook 'Children in the Second World War'.
Playing time: 9 min (V106)