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Voices of History 1 (2004)

Subject

History; Media studies; Politics & government; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 145 minutes), £16.00

This two-CD set features historic recordings from the Sound Archive of some of the most famous and influential people active from the early days of sound recording to the middle of the 20th century. Forty...

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Astronomy (5 Parts) (1990 Video)

Director

Stuart McDonald

Producer

William Woollard

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 5 x 50 min., 1995 sale: £55.00 (inclusive) series

The 161st Royal Institution Christmas Lectures series, given by Professor Malcolm Longair, Astronomer Royal of Scotland, on the origin and evolution of the universe.

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History of History (2010)

Subject

History

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the writing of history has changed over time, from ancient epics to medieval hagiographies and modern deconstructions. In the 6th century AD, the bishop of Tours began his...

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How I Won the War (1967)

Director

Richard Lester

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 111 minutes), £19.99

Lieutenant Goodbody enthusiastically leads his troops in a series of dreadful debacles on the battlefields of the Second World War, before receiving orders to install a cricket pitch behind enemy lines. A...

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Battle of the Somme (1916 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 132 minutes), £19.56

Battle of the Somme is a pioneering battlefield documentary that was seen by huge audiences in the UK when it was released in August 1916, barely a month after the events it depicted. Cinema-goers hailed it...

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Miss Mend (1926)

aka: Miss Mend, An Adventure Serial in Three Parts

Director

Boris Barnet

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 285 minutes), 35.95 Euros

Silent film produced in Russia in 1926 with the goal of rivalling the most entertaining American movies of the 1920s. It features stunning location photography and impressive stunt scenes: horse, car and...

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Dangerous Dynasty, A: House of Assad (2018)

Subject

History; Politics & government

This three-part BBC series is a thorough lesson in how Syria has ended up in its current predicament. Right at the centre of it are President Bashar and his wife Asma, who met and fell in love in London....

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David Holzman’s Diary: A Film by Jim McBride (1967)

Director

Jim McBride

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 156 minutes), £12.99

Shot in 1967, David Holzman’s Diary is ‘the world’s first mockumentary’ (Vertigo Magazine). The film manages to simultaneously be very much of its time and very many years ahead of its time. It tells...

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Psychological Defence Mechanisms (2004)

Producer

Andrew Macaulay; Andrew Powell

Subject

Psychiatry; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 42 minutes), £126.00

Beginning with denial, the first example shows a normal reaction to loss - a wife cannot believe her husband is dead. The second example shows a smoker in a hospital bed. He has gangrene of his right foot,...

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Film / Notfilm (2017)

aka: Film: A Film by Samuel Beckett / Notfilm: A Kino Essay by Ross Lipman

Director

Ross Lipman; Alan Schneider

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 152 minutes), £19.99

FILM (Alan Schneider,1965, 22 mins) is the Nobel prize winner Samuel Beckett’s only screenplay, starring Buster Keaton. In his extensive Kino-Essay, NOTFILM (2015, 129 mins), Ross Lipman explores the...

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