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The Story of British Pathe Season 1, Episode 1: The Birth of the News

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For more than half a century, the film and newsreel company British Pathé documented almost every aspect of everyday life in Britain and around the world. Watch The Story of British Pathe Season 1, Episode 1 The Birth of the News in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of The Story of British Pathe Season 1, Episode 1 and share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Episodes

4 episodes
Season 1
1

The Birth of the News

For more than half a century, the film and newsreel company British Pathé documented almost every aspect of everyday life in Britain and around the world.

60 min
2

The Voice of Pathé

The company's output really came into its own during the Second World War, when the distinctively clipped and relentlessly chipper commentaries by its announcer Bob Danvers-Walker provided stirring encouragement during the Blitz - and offered authoritative advice on how housewives struggling to feed their families on the ration could overcome privation and to 'make do and mend'.

60 min
3

Entertaining Britain

While the company was famous for its pioneering news reports, it also produced immensely popular 'cinemagazines', which entertained cinemagoers for decades.

60 min
4

Around the World

In the age before mass tourism made international travel affordable and accessible to most of us, their sumptuous travelogues and anthropological documentaries offered British cinemagoers a rare opportunity to glimpse faraway worlds.

60 min