Roger Arnold Manvell was the first director of the British Film Academy (a post he filled for over a decade), author of many books on films and film-making, and authored and co-authored (with Heinrich Fraenkel

Heinrich Fraenkel

Heinrich Fraenkel was an author and Hollywood writer most notable for his biographies of Nazi war criminals published in the 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:Fraenkel was born in Lissa, Poland...

) many books on Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...

, including biographies of Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

, Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a prominent Nazi politician who was Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party during the 1930s and early 1940s...

, Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and the Minister of the Interior from 1943, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo...

, Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism...

 and Hermann Göring

Hermann Göring

Hermann Wilhelm Göring, was a German politician, military leader, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. He was a veteran of World War I as an ace fighter pilot, and a recipient of the coveted Pour le Mérite, also known as "The Blue Max"...

. During World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 he worked in the Ministry of Information, creating propaganda

Propaganda

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 films for the British government. In his long and distinguished career he also lectured in universities in as many as forty countries in three continents (America, Europe and the Middle East), and made a name for himself as a broadcaster and screen writer. He joined the Boston University faculty in 1975 teaching film history classes at the College of Communications. Manvell was named University Professor in 1982.

On the arts (film/television/theatre)

A Seat at the Cinema

Age of Communication: Press, Books, Films, Radio, TV

Animated Film: With Pictures from the Film 'Animal Farm'

Art in Movement: New Directions in Animation

Cinema, The (annual Pelican film review)

Design in motion

Experiment in the Film

Film and The Public (annual Pelican film review)

German Cinema, The

History of the British Film

Images of Madness: Portrayal of Insanity in the Feature Film

International Encyclopedia of Film, The

Living Screen: Background to the Film and Television

Love Goddesses of the Movies

Masterworks of the German Cinema: The Golem - Nosferatu - M -The Threepenny Opera

New Cinema in Britain

New Cinema in Europe

New cinema in the U.S.A: The feature film since 1946

On the air: A study of broadcasting in sound and television

Penguin Film Review, The (1946-1949)

Progress in Television

Selected Comedies: Elizabeth Inchbald

Shakespeare and the Film

Technique of Film Animation, The

Technique of Film Music, The

Theatre and Film: A Comparative Study of the Two Forms of Dramatic Art and of the Problems of Adaptation of Stage Plays into Films

This Age of Communication

Three British screen plays: "Brief encounter","Odd man out," "Scott of the Antarctic"

What is Film?

On Nazi Germany

Canaris Conspiracy, The

Conspirators, The

Doctor Goebbels: His Life & Death

Films and the Second World War

Gestapo

Göring

Hess

Heinrich Himmler: The SS, Gestapo, His Life and Career

Heinrich Himmler

Hitler: The Man and The Myth

Hundred Days to Hitler, The

Incomparable Crime, The: Mass Extermination in the Twentieth Century

July Plot, The

SS & Gestapo: Rule of Terror

Biography

Chaplin

Elizabeth Inchbald: England's Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London - A Biographical Study

Ellen Terry

Ingmar Bergman, an Appreciation

Sarah Siddons

Trial of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh, The