The ten-minute propaganda film called Manchester Took It Too is not thought to have been shown in full since World War Two and has languished in the archives of the Imperial War Museum North.
It shows the devastation caused by bombings carried out on December 22 and 23, 1940 including the ruins of the Royal Exchange, the Victoria arcade and Piccadilly.
Filmed from the rooftop of the Co-Operative Wholesale Society, who produced the film, it was shown throughout northern England during the Second World War and was intended to show that not only London was affected by the Blitz.

During the December raids 250 planes dropped 470 tonnes of high explosive and more than 30,000 incendiary bombs killing 654 people injuring more than 2,000. Around 6,000 people were made homeless.
Blitz spirit survived in Manchester however as over 50 Co-operative volunteers worked through the night so that four thousand meals consisting of meat hotpots, sultana puddings and mince pies could be supplied to the homeless in time for Christmas lunch.