01 Nov 1976
The Birth of Television
In this feature-length documentary from 1976, Leslie Mitchell and special guests recall the birth of BBC Television forty years before.
Television Under the Swastika
A history of Nazi television programming and technology, from 1935 to 1944.
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Peter Buchholz Self - Narrator (voice)
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