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People’s Century (Parts 1-3) (1995 Video)

Producer

Bill Treharne Jones; Jonathan Lewis

Subject

History

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 160 min.

A history of 20th century in 26 parts as seen from the point of view of ordinary people who have lived through the events. Includes interviews and extensive archive footage. 1 (producer Jonathan Lewis): Eye...

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Kino-Pravda No. 22 (1925 Film)

Director

Dziga Vertov

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The first anniversary of Lenin’s death. Workers and peasants eat together and unite; free meals being given out. A delegation of peasants visits Moscow, sees Lenin’s body in the mausoleum, the Tsar’s...

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Stalingrad (2007)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 156 minutes), £12.99

English version of a German television documentary by Guido Knopp of German television channel ZDF. Survivors from both sides describe their harrowing experiences and provide some of the last eyewitness...

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Cold War (6 Parts) (1998 Video)

Producer

Jeremy Isaacs; Pat Mitchell; Martin Smith

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 6 x 180 min., 1998 sale: £19.99 (inclusive) each

Documentary series recounting the 45 years of the postwar era from the end of World War 2 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. Includes footage distilled from over 1000 hours and more than 600...

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Sugar: The Rules of the Game (2004)

Director

Meritxell Ribas

Subject

Agriculture; Economics; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 33 minutes), $295.00

This film examines the complex world of international commerce by looking at the major players in the sugar industry - European and African farmers, major sugar production companies on both continents,...

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Britain and the Superpowers 1945-1962 (1982 Multimedia)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, 30 slides. b&w.

A selection of cartoonists’ graphic images designed to examine Britain’s relations with the USA and the USSR from 1945 to 1962. Cartoons drawn for the major newspapers and opinion-forming journals are...

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Great Way, The (1927 Film)

aka: Veliky Put

Director

Esther Shub

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This and its companion film THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY are remarkable examples of early historical compilation films. After painstaking research, with Shub examining each frame of available material,...

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World War II: The Nuremberg Trials (2009)

Director

S. Svilov

Producer

Roman Karmen; Yelizaveta Svilova

Subject

History; Law

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £15.50

The Nuremberg trials began in 1945 and the film cameras of the victorious Allies were there to record the proceedings. The first documentary film to emerge was the Soviet film account which appeared as soon...

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Reinventing the City (1994 Video)

Producer

Vic Lockwood

Subject

Architecture; Politics & government

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 2001 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Explores the local and global forces that have directed and shaped the urban development of New York and Los Angeles over the last 30 years. Examines Battery Park City and the 42nd Street project in New...

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Soviet Newsreel No. 59 (June 1941): Special Issue: The Radio Broadcast by the Chairman of the Peoples’ Commissars, V M Molotov (1941 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The broadcast made by Molotov on 22 June 1941 in which he announced to the Russian people that their country had been invaded by German troops. The newsreel shows shots of factory workers and members of the...

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