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New Cold War, The (1982 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

Noam Chomsky and Fred Halliday discuss the arms race, increasing rivalry between the superpowers, and military intervention in Grenada and Afghanistan which have led many to speak of a new Cold War.

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Bomb, The (1980 Video)

Director

Francis Gerard

Producer

Michael Deakin; Frank Smith

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The implications of the escalating nuclear arms race. Moves from the ‘Hibakusha’ (survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) in Japan to the computerised weapons systems of the US military, as it traces the...

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Nuclear Countdown (1978 Film)

Director

Ramakantha Sarma

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Traces the history of the nuclear arms race from 1945 and looks at attempts to control the use of atomic energy for peaceful ends. Documents continuing international efforts at control and explains the...

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Truth Game, The (1983 Film, Video)

Director

David Munro

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Looks at worldwide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race, beginning with the dropping of two American atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, through the build-up of nuclear arms by Russia and America...

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Threat of Nuclear War, The (3 Parts) (1981 Multimedia)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, 3 audiocassettes. 3 x 30 slides. b&w/col.

Part 1: Summarises what a nuclear bomb is and how it works (discusses all the major types). Looks at the effects as typified by Hiroshima and discusses what a nuclear war might be like in Britain using...

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America in the Fifties: The Fear and the Dream (2001 Video)

Producer

Nancy Button

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

After World War 2, Americans were gripped by new terrors: rising Soviet military power and the spectre of nuclear annihiliation. Sheltered in rapidly expanding suburbs, newly affluent couples...

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Debate Continues (1986 Video)

Producer

Roger Penfound

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

OUT OF DISTSRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Discusses the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War 2 and evaluates what lessons have been learnt to aid the understanding of nuclear weapons in society. Contrasts the size of the...

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Cold War, The 1 (2000 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 100 min., 1999 sale: £7.50 (inclusive)

Series using reconstructions, archive footage and documentary evidence to focus on the crises of the Cold War from 1945 tot he late 1980s, emphasising the Soviet perspective throughout. In five parts: 1)...

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Journey, The (1987)

aka: Resan

Director

Peter Watkins

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 870 minutes), 30 Euros

Peter Watkins’ monumental fourteen hour documentary was produced in 1983-86 by the Swedish Peace & Arbitration Society and local support groups in Sweden, Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, USSR, Mexico,...

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Triumph of Life (2010)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 282 minutes), £24.99

A six-part series on evolution, using a combination of cutting edge model effects and superb wildlife photography. The series shows how living things adapt and use a number of strategies to survive, but that...

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