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Dr Suzannah Lipscomb argues that, despite only lasting for three generations and 118 years, the Tudors are the dynasty that contributed the most to framing our national identity and the sense of 'Britishness' we recognise today, both at home and abroad.
This film has been produced by Bright Button Productions as part of the Chalke Valley History Hub.With Thanks to The Clore Duffield Foundation. © Bright Button Productions (Trading as RAWR Films Ltd) & Chalke Valley History Trust 2013.
Why The Tudors Matter
James Holland compares three items of kit from the Second World War to dispel the myth that the Germans were more efficient and better equipped than their British counterparts.
This film has been produced by Bright Button Productions as part of the Chalke Valley History Hub.With Thanks to The Clore Duffield Foundation. © Bright Button Productions (Trading as RAWR Films Ltd) & Chalke Valley History Trust 2013.
WWII: Kit Comparison (British Vs German)
France, 1916. The 10th Essex Regiment WW1 Living History Group give unique insight into life in the First World War Trenches of the Somme.
This film has been produced by Bright Button Productions as part of the Chalke Valley History Hub.With Thanks to The Clore Duffield Foundation. © Bright Button Productions (Trading as RAWR Films Ltd) & Chalke Valley History Trust 2013.
WWI: A Day In The Trenches
Broadmayne D5: The Days Before D-Day
On the 6th of June 1944, troops from all over the south coast of England departed for the shores of Normandy in history's largest ever amphibious invasion. This film tells the story of Broadmayne's role in WWII history when the village of a few hundred people became a marshalling camp for 3000 US troops in the run up to D-Day.
This film is one of two produced to accompany an event and heritage trail that Bright Button also helped create with the Broadmayne WWII Society and Heritage Lottery Fund. The event ran over the course of a weekend to commemorate Broadmayne's D-Day role and included live music and entertainment, history talks, a 1940s village fete and a reconstruction of camp D5 with re-enactors from the regiments stationed here. We also produced a 1940s cinema evening, screening vintage cartoons and the feature film 'Oh, Mr Porter!' from original 35mm prints.
See the site we created to learn more: Broadmayne D5
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More than just well trodden tales of heroic struggle, it is also the story of two competing military doctrines: one ill-prepared for the organisational demands of a long battle, the other in the process of building the greatest military machine ever seen.
As veterans gather to relive one of the turning points of the Second World War, historian James Holland moves beyond the D-Day beaches to reassess the brutal 77-day battle for Normandy that followed the invasion.
Challenging some of the many myths that have grown up around this vital campaign, Holland argues that we have become too comfortable in our understanding of events, developing shorthand to tell this famous story that does great injustice to those that saw action in France across the summer of 1944.
Including perspectives from those who fought on both sides, Holland examines not only the nature of the fighting and the higher aims of the campaign, but also the operational level - the nuts and bolts - and in so doing reveals the true complexity of this bitter and bloody battle.
This story is about the challenge for both sides to adapt to conditions in a campaign of carnage that has rarely been acknowledged.
Normandy 44: The Battle Beyond D-Day (2014)
BBC TWO 1x60'
A Maya Vision International production
Produced and Directed by Bright Button's Aaron Young and Associate Producer, Freya Eden-Ellis
Bright Button Productions provided production services on this Maya Vision International production, following three other successful James Holland fronted WWII films also produced and directed by Aaron Young for BBC Two.
'Broadmayne D5: Return to 1944' follows the villagers of Broadmayne through a weekend of events commemorating their history as a D-Day camp in 1944. Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the village, decorated with bunting, flags and 1940s scarecrows, was populated with re-enactors and welcomed visitors from all over the local area for a sun-filled day of fete fun, song and dance, food, drink and commemoration.
This film is one of two produced with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
See the site we created to learn more: Broadmayne D5
© Bright Button Productions.