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My Way Home (1978 Video)

Director

Bill Douglas

Subject

History; Media studies; Social sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 71 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

Part three of Bill Douglas’ autobiographical trilogy about his impoverished upbringing in Scotland (the other titles are MY CHILDHOOD and MY AIN FOLK). Leaving a children’s home to become a miner and...

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Summer Storm (1944)

Director

Douglas Sirk

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 106 minutes), £9.99

Douglas Sirk’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s drama The Shooting Party. Olga, the young and beautiful wife of a middle-aged Russian civil servant, becomes the object of the affections of her husband’s...

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Unknown Soldier, The (1996 Video)

aka: Haig: The Unknown Soldier

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1998 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

On the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, reappraises the character and role of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig in the light of new historical evidence. Looks at the battles he fought, and some of...

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Haig: The Unknown Soldier (1996 Video)

aka: Unknown Soldier, The

Producer

Helen Bettinson

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min. Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive) (retail) 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) (BBC)

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Homer: The Odyssey 1 (1999 Multimedia)

Subject

Classical studies

Distribution

CD-ROM

An interactive guide to Homer’s ‘Odyssey’, containing the complete text with introduction, synopsis, key events, themes, glossary, quotations; an overview of each book; maps of places visited by...

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Paths of Glory (1957)

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £13.99

Stanley Kubrick’s powerful anti-war film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the leader of a group of French soldiers fihgting in World War I, who are framed for cowardice and put on trial, on pain of...

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Ai Mark VIII (1942 Video)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 33 min., 1995 sale: £12.00 (+p&p)

In December 1942 the first RAF squadron was equipped with AI Mark VIII, the main production version of the first centimetric Aircraft Interception radar system. This film explains in detail how AI Mark VIII...

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Radar Ornithology (1963 Video)

Subject

Biology; Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 25, 10 min., 1995 sale: £12.00 (+p&p)

Part 1 (1963): A film about starlines made for the Granada Television series ANOTHER WORLD. In 1963 Douglas Fisher was filming starling roosts near Colchester when he heard that Dr Eastwood and members of...

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Schistosomiasis (1990)

Director

Douglas Fisher

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

An estimated 200 million people and countless domestic animals in the tropics and sub-tropics suffer from schistosomiasis (bilharzia), and perhaps 400 million others are at risk. The video uses...

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My Childhood and My Ain Folk (1972 Video)

Director

Bill Douglas

Subject

History; Media studies; Social sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 48, 55 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

The first two parts of Bill Douglas’ autobiographical trilogy (the third part is called MY WAY HOME). MY CHILDHOOD goes back to his impoverished upbringing in early 1940s Scotland, living with his...

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