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Safety Screen (10 Parts) (1976 Video)

Director

Trevor A Scott

Producer

Trevor A Scott

Subject

Health & safety

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. b&w/col. 50, 25, 41, 44, 40, 47, 25, 47, 29, 29 min.

A magazine-style programme dealing with aspects of health and safety, made initially for schools and institutions of the University of London. Each programme concludes with news items topical at the time of...

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Discovery and Experience (10 Parts) (1966 Film)

Producer

Eileen Molony

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Films concerned with different aspects of child-centred education made in different primary schools in England.

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Looking into Paintings (6 Parts) (1985 Video)

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 25 min.

Part 1 investigates how paintings have been interpreted and re-interpreted through the ages, beginning with Leonardo’s ‘Mona Lisa’. Shows that we have expectations about paintings and painters based on...

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Eyewitness (2010)

Producer

Kate Shiers-Ghellere; Peter Leonard

Subject

Psychology; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £15.00

A groundbreaking three-part series, made by the OU in collaboration with Greater Manchester Police, explores the fallibility of human memory in witness testimony, by creating eyewitnesses and looking at real...

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Chinese Schools (2008)

aka: Chinese School

Subject

Education; Geography; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £17.00

Documentary series about the hopes and dreams of a group of children at three schools in the small Chinese town of Xiuning, in rural Anhui. The programmes focus on the lives of a group of families, teachers...

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Boys of Ballikinrain, The (2 Parts) (2010)

Director

Stephen Bennett

Subject

Education; Social welfare

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION

Ballikinrain is a residential school near Stirling catering for 30 boys with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties from the age of eight upwards who have been removed from their own homes either for...

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Story of Maths, The (2008)

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £17.00

This DVD contains the complete 4-part series about the history of mathematics, presented by Professor Marcus du Sautoy.The films offer clear, accessible explanations of important mathematical ideas but are...

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Wheels of Fire (10 Parts) (1983 Video)

Director

Julian Stenhouse

Producer

Howard Smith

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 10 x 30 min.

The series examines some of Indias’s more successful development schemes which are transforming the lives of communities throughout the sub-continent. The programmes focus on the individual lives of men,...

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Alternative Medicine - Complete Series (2006)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £15.00

A 3-part BBC series produced in conjunction with The Open University following Professor Kathy Sykes on her quest to find out why science is starting to respond to the centuries-old phenomenon of...

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