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  1. Spanish Civil War, The - The Story of a Country at War (2005)

    Subject
    History; Spanish studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £10.99

    Through a consideration of period imagery, along with archived footage, this documentary provides an historical and political insight into the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939.

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  2. We Live in Two Worlds : Gpo Film Unit Volume 2 (2009)

    Director
    Len Lye; Harry Watt; Evelyn Spice; William Coldstream; Basil Wright; Stuart Legg; Alberto Cavalcanti; Norman McLaren; Lotte Reiniger; Pat Jackson; Humphrey Jennings; Richard Massingham
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 257 minutes), £24.99

    The second of three double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit produced between 1936-1938. The collection is not just important in cinematic terms, but provides a valuable and...

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  3. This Gun for Hire (1942)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 78 minutes), £9.99

    An adaptation of Graham Greene’s 1936 novel about a hired killer on the run ‘A Gun For Sale’, starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake and Laird Cregar with the action relocated to the United States.

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  4. Newsreel History of the Third Reich (4 Parts) (2007)

    Subject
    Film Studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (4 x 60 minutes), £10.99 each

    4 separate DVD compilations which use German newsreel footage to give a fascinating insight of how Goebbels’s Ministry of Propaganda portrayed World War II to the German people.

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  5. Land and Freedom (1995)

    Director
    Ken Loach
    Producer
    Rebecca O’Brien
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 109 minutes), £19.99

    In 1936 with the Spanish civil war in full flow, a young unemployed and disillusioned Liverpudlian decides to leave his fiancee and travel to Spain to support the Republican cause.

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  6. Canadienses, Los (1978 Film)

    Director
    Albert Kish
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Using documentary and newsreel material the film records the Mackenzie Papineau Battalion, the Canadian contingent involved with the International Brigades fighting in Spain during the Civil War of 1936-39....

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  7. Trance and Dance in Bali (1968 Film, Video)

    Producer
    Gregory Gateson; Margaret Mead
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The Balinese ceremonial dance drama in which the never-ending struggle between the witch and the dragon, the death-dealing and the life-protecting, is played out to the accompaniment of comic interludes and...

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  8. Fairy of the Phone, The (1936 Video)

    Director
    William Coldstream
    Producer
    Basil Wright
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 13 min.

    A comedy with musical sequences including an opening song featuring a chorus of telephonists. The script was based on page 6 of the 1936 London telephone directory - instructions to subscribers on how to use...

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  9. Scenes of Viceregal India 1938-9 (1975 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A compilation of material from the personal film collection of the second Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy and Governor-General of India between 1936 and 1943. Scenes show aspects of the Viceroy’s life and...

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  10. CinÉma et L’Astrophysique, Le (1948 Film)

    Director
    Joseph Leclerc
    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Movements of the sun and moon as seen by time-lapse photography. Movement of the midnight sun in polar regions. distortions of the sun at sunset, caused by refraction. Rotation of the planet Mars, seen from...

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