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Hindenberg, The (1998 Video)

Subject

Engineering; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1998 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

Traces the history of the luxurious ‘Hindenberg’ airship from its conception and construction to its untimely end in 1937. Includes the broadcast transmitted live by an American journalist in Lakehurst,...

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Paul Mason Explains Fake News

aka: Fake News

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Film

Is the British press crossing the line from propaganda to fake news? Using the allegations that the leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbin, is a Czech spy as a case study, journalist Paul Mason explains how...

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Escape & Control (2011)

Subject

Information technology; Media studies

An online documentary series in which journalist and filmmaker Jon Ronson explores individuals and organisations that try to manipulate online audiences, and the conspiracy theories that surround them....

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Gaugin: The Full Story (2003)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £10.99

Waldemar Januszczak charts the life of artist Paul Gauguin through the many twists and turns which take him from an idyllic childhood in Peru to his death on the Marquesas Islands. Januszczak argues that the...

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Basque Ball (2004)

aka: Pelota Vasca: La Piel Contra la Piedra

Subject

Politics & government; Spanish studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £19.99

A portrait and exploration of the language and traditions of the Basques and a look at the political nature of the region. Featuring archive footage and interviews with poets, musicians, terrorists and the...

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Struggle for Free Press and a Democratic Society, The (1998 Video)

Subject

Development studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Part of a series exploring ways of resolving conflicts across Africa. This film shows one journalist’s testimony of the movement by Algerian journalists to keep the spirit of their profession alive, as...

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Agronomist, The (2004)

Director

Jonathan Demme

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £19.99

A presentation of the story of Jean Dominique, who ran Haiti’s first independent radio station during multiple repressive regimes. A radio journalist, human rights activist and freedom fighter, he was...

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1964 (2014)

Subject

American Studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £14.99

Based on the book ‘The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964’, by award-winning journalist Jon Margolis, this film follows some of the most prominent figures of the time (including Lyndon B Johnson, Barry...

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Being the Brontës

Director

Linda Sands

Producer

John Das

Subject

English language and literature

Martha Kearney is joined by author Helen Oyeyemi and journalist Lucy Mangan to mark the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë's birth by exploring the life and times of the author and her siblings Emily and...

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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)

Director

Alison Klayman

Subject

Art; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £15.99

Beijing-based American journalist Alison Klayman directs this feature-length documentary about the life and work of Chinese contemporary artist and political activist Ai Weiwei. The film begins in 2009 as Ai...

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