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Battle of Cable Street (2006)

Director

Yoav Segal

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 10 minutes), free for academic use

Blurring the line between live action and animation, this is a remarkable re-telling of a seminal event in Anglo-Jewish history. A young boy is taken inside the magical world of his own sketchbook by his...

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Private Lives (2014)

Director

Jonathan Kent

Subject

Drama

Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor star as Eylot and Amanda in Jonathan Kent’s production of Noel Coward’s Private Lives for the 2012 Chichester Festival. The production transferred to the Gielgud Theatre...

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Do You Remember? 1950s Norwich (1994 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

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Benin Kingship Ritual (1964 Film)

Director

R E Bradbury; Francis Speed

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 20 minutes), £50.00

The rulers of Benin in Nigeria, the Oba, traditionally spend much of their time performing rituals designed to enhance their own power and the prosperity of their subjects. This film record of the rituals...

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Vitelloni, I (1953)

Director

Federico Fellini

Subject

Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £19.99

The winner of the prestigious Silver Lion Award at the 1953 Venice Film Festival, Federico Fellini’s I VITELLONI is a brilliant and sharp observation of Italian social life in the 1950’s. The title,...

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Vietnam War, The: The Tet Offensive (1995 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 62 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

CBS News footage of the Tet offensive during the Vietnam war, which started when the Viet Cong struck on the day of the Tet festival, the most sacred of all Vietnamese festivals. This was the most important...

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David Rudkin’s Interrogations (1985 Video)

Director

Stephen Garrett

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

In Autumn 1984, as part of the Birmingham Theatre Festival, David Rudkin was invited by Triangle Arts Centre to host a series of workshops with a small group of new playwrights. Shows the creative processes...

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Cult of Dionysus, The (1996)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 82 minutes), £90.00

Based on Euripides’ Greek classic, ‘The Bacchae,' The CULT OF DIONYSUS was the hit of the inaugural Brisbane Festival in 1996. First performed in Japan in 1994, this ground-breaking production was a part...

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Woodstock (1969 Video)

Director

Michael Wadleigh

Producer

Bob Maurice

Subject

Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 177 min.

Film based on the popular music festival held in Bethel New York, in August 1969, attented by half a million hippies.

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Triumph of Tears, The (1990 Video)

Director

Caroline Gardiner

Producer

Ray Thompson

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 53 min.

A play premiered at the 1988 Edinburgh Festival Fringe as part of the programme by Artists for El Salvador. It depicts the diverse experiences of women in Central America, through one articulate peasant...

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