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I’m Going to Tamper with Your Beliefs a Little (1972)

Director

Michael Chanan

Producer

Noel Chanan

Subject

Philosophy

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Sir Isaiah Berlin and Stuart Hampshire discuss philosophy in Oxford in the 1930s, and John Langshaw Austin. An excerpt is included from the only extant sound recording of Austin lecturing.* (60 minutes)

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Eu Narrative (2014)

Subject

Politics & government

In his State of the Union address 2012, José Manuel Barroso, President of the EC, made an appeal to artists, intellectuals, scientists and academics from around the continent, to jointly explore the values...

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Logic Lane (1972)

Director

Michael Chanan

Producer

Noel Chanan

Subject

Philosophy

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The first of six documentaries on Oxford philosophy. It is retrospective by Professor Sir Alfred Ayer of the development of philosophy in Oxford from the 1930s to the present. Includes excerpts from some of...

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Kosterlitz. A Life of Research in Biochemical Pharmacology: Professor Hans Kosterlitz Frs in Conversation with Dr Alan North, 29 November 1991 (1991)

Subject

Biology

Hans Walter Kosterlitz (1903-1996) was born in Berlin. The son of a physician, he studied medicine there and at other German universities. He and his colleague John Hughes were the discoverers of the...

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Fire at Sea (2016)

Director

Gianfranco Rosi

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (108 minutes), £6.99

Situated 150 miles south of Sicily, Lampedusa has hit headlines as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern refugees hoping to make a new life in Europe. After spending...

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Origins of the Cold War, The (1976)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 28 minutes), £60.00

A selection of unedited British newsreel stories on the theme of the Cold War. Each item is identified by title, source and date: Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech; Truman’s Doctrine speech, the Marshall...

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K is for Karl: Alienation (2018)

aka: Alienation (Episode 1)

Director

Theopi Skarlatos

Subject

Philosophy

A series of five short films on the ideas of Karl Marx to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his birth. In the first film journalist Paul Mason explains what Marx meant by Alienation. He searches fort the...

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Germany’s Sense of Itself and the World’s Sense of Germany (2015)

Subject

History; Politics & government

A video podcast from the London Review of Books. Franziska Augstein, Süddeutsche Zeitung; Norbert Röttgen, Chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Foreign Affairs; Neal Ascherson, the Observer’s Central...

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Automation, Ai and New Industrial Strategies (2018)

Subject

Economics; Technology

Three online lectures about the digital transition we are currently living through and how it is different from previous technological transitions. The lectures are aimed primarily to those with a strong...

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Max Herman Maxy and the Romanian Avant-Garde

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 33 minutes), £137.00

The film explores the life of Romanian artist M.H. Maxy (1895-1971, who played a major role in the history of modern painting in Romania. While many of his contemporaries emigrated to the West from Romania...

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