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Made in Wolverhampton (2013)

aka: Made in Wolverhampton: A Film by Adam Kossoff

Director

Adam Kossoff

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 74 minutes), £15.00

Taking an essayistic form, Adam Kossoff’s film explores the identity and the changing nature of space in an English post-industrial city. Based on the discoveries of the city by a flâneur, the film...

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Fabulous History of the Cuban Cigar, The (2006)

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £12.99

A documentary history of the Cuban cigar. From the European connoisseur and the Cuban plantation owner to the peasants who do the work, this film explores the peculiar mystique of the Havana smoke.

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Three Faces of Cuba (1966 Film)

Director

Robert Cohen

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Examines the impact of the Castro revolution on the people of Cuba from three different viewpoints: that of an exiled university professor whose family is still in Havana, a factory personnel manager who was...

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Compay Segundo

Subject

HISTORY & POLITICS CATALOGUES; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 min), £17.99

Compay Segunda was filmed, in his nineties, singing his Cuban songs as he has done in Havana since the 1920s. His songs tell of promises of a brave new world following the revolution and life in Cuba before...

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Simulation of Manganism (1956 Film, Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A film in the Wellcome’s collection of the papers of Dr Donald Hunter (1898-1977), occupational health expert. Professor F Lancis and Dr R Peñalver of the Research Department of Legal Medicine and...

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Chevolution (2009)

Director

Luis Lopez; Tricia Ziff

Subject

Art; Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £12/99

In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto ‘Korda’ Diaz captured a photo of Che Guevara during a mass funeral. History conspired to enable this dynamic portrait to explode on the world scene where it became an...

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Cuba Si! (4 Parts) (1962 Film)

Director

James Hill

Producer

Tim Hewat

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Part 4: A study of Fidel Castro, his relations with the Communist bloc, and the possible effects on Latin America of the revolution as viewed at the time.

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Cuba and the Cold War Collection: From Revolution to Missile Crisis (2009)

Subject

History

At the height of the Cold War, on 1 January 1959, a guerrilla army led by Fidel Castro defeated the US-backed Batista government. Attempts by the US government to undermine Castro’s new administration,...

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Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story (2018)

Director

Iciar Bollain

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 115 minutes)

Yuli is based on Acosta’s autobiography ‘No Way Home, A Cuban Dancer’s Story’. It is his own story about growing up in Cuba, becoming a dancer, moving to London and his relationship with his father,...

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Afghan Star (2010)

Subject

Media studies; Music; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £6.99

When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 1996, among their many edicts was banning popular music, considering it a corrupting and sacrilegious influence. Though Taliban was swept from power in 2001,...

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