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Wilson Sibbett: Optical Science in the Fast Lanet (2004)

Subject

Physics

A recording of a public lecture delivered by Thebe Medupe Wilson Sibbett the Royal Society. Some lasers can be operated to produce optical impulses that last for just a few billionths of a microsecond. In...

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Journey, The (1987)

aka: Resan

Director

Peter Watkins

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 870 minutes), 30 Euros

Peter Watkins’ monumental fourteen hour documentary was produced in 1983-86 by the Swedish Peace & Arbitration Society and local support groups in Sweden, Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, USSR, Mexico,...

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Birth of the Bomb / Search for the Super (1995)

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 2 x 50 minutes), £16.99

Two films by Peter Batty that piece together the story of the quest for an ultimate weapon, looking at how scientists and politicians in Germany, the UK, the USA and the Soviet Union battled to unleash a...

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Site One: Holy Loch (1985 Video)

Director

Sarah Noble

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min.

Examines the activites of the US Navy during the 24 years that American nuclear submarines have been stationed at Holy Loch on the Firth of Clyde. Sets out the strategic and diplomatic origins of the US Navy...

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Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War (2012)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.99

On October 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy informed the world that the Soviet Union was building secret missile bases on the island of Cuba, 90 miles off the shores of Florida. The events of the next 13...

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Secrets of War (2011)

Director

Alan Beattie; Charles Proser

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1300 minutes), £18.00

This award-winning series explores lesser-known aspects of the twentieth century’s major conflicts, offering insights into the hidden world of covert operations. Based on information that had been only...

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Fog of War, The (1990 Video)

Director

Mike Rossiter

Producer

Mike Rossiter

Subject

Chemistry; Engineering

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1993 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the history, use, tactics and ethics of chemical warfare. Used in World War 1, phosgene and mustard gas produced such revulsion that their first use was banned in 1925, but 20 countries still...

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Keep Smiling Through (2002)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 90 minutes), £12.99

Second programme in the series BRITAIN’S HOME FRONT, covering the period 1942-43. In the Summer of 1940 Britain braced itself for invasion and and endured nightly horrors of the London Blitz. The invasion...

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Seven Ages of Britain (2010)

Subject

Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 235 minutes), £29.99

A series in which David Dimbleby tells the story of Britain through an incredible collection of treasures including painted images and monuments of stone and gold, religious relics as well as weapons of war,...

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Task Force South: The Battle for the Falklands (8 Parts) (1984 Video)

Producer

Gordon Carr

Subject

History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 30 min.

On 18th March 1982, a group of Argentine scrap-metal merchants raised their country’s flag on the island of South Georgia. It was an act that started a chain of events ending with Britain’s biggest and...

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