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South Africa: Getting Away with Murder (1992 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £6.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Filmed openly in South Africa for the first time, this video charts the involvement of the South African authorities at the highest level in the murder of political opponents. Shows how the black-on-black...

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Gift of a Girl (1997 Video)

Director

Mayyasa Al-Malazi; Jo Smith

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2000 hire: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) Concord 2000 sale: £35.00 (+VAT +p&p) Concord

Looks at the movement to stop female infanticide in southern India, focusing on solutions to the many problems surrounding the issue in a region where, for various social and economic reasons, the murder of...

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Mystery of Murder, The (2015)

aka: The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide

Subject

Medical sciences; Psychiatry

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195.00

Science has spent more than 50 years trying to understand the mind of murderers to find out in which ways they are different to the rest of us. This BBC documentary looks at the latest research to see the...

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Bruay Affair, The (1977 Video)

Producer

Richard Dyke

Subject

French studies; Law; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min.

Describes the legal procedures and social implications of the murder in April 1972 of Brigitte Dewèvre, a miner’s daughter from the small town in northern France of Bruay-en-Artois.

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Glimmer of Hope, A (1997)

Director

Charles Konowal

Producer

Joe MacDonald

Subject

Psychology; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 53 minutes), £29.00

In an effort to come to terms with their loss and grief following their daughter’s murder, Don and Mary Streufert and their other daughter Emily arrange to meet the men who committed the crime, now in...

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Maria Martin, Or Murder in the Red Barn (1999 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. col. 120 min.

Video recording using a single camera of a performance of ‘Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn’ and Victorian Music Hall, directed by John Caird, recorded at the Britten Theatre in December 1999, and...

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Sense of Freedom (2006)

Director

John Mackenzie

Subject

Film Studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 85 minutes), £5.99

A film directed by John Mackenzie dramatising the life of Jimmy Boyle who was reputed to be Scotland’s most violent man. After a hard upbringing he was twice charged and cleared of murder but was finally...

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Thin Blue Line, The (1988)

Director

Errol Morris

Producer

Mark Lipson

Subject

Film studies; Law

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £15.99

While researching another project, filmmaker Errol Morris became fascinated by the case of Randall Dale Adams, a man on death row for the murder of a policeman in 1976. Convinced of his innocence, Morris...

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To Kill and Kill Again (1993 Video)

Director

Patrick Fleming

Producer

Patrick Fleming

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

At California State University Dr Eric W Hickey devised a model showing the development of the murderous personality, based on research into more than 200 cases of serial murder. These findings are applied...

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Human Desire (1954)

Director

Fritz Lang

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

Adapted from the same Emile Zola novel previously filmed by Jean Renoir in La BETE HUMAINE (1938), Lang’s startlingly dark, late film noir reunites Lang with his hero Glenn Ford and femme fatale Gloria...

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