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  1. Land Divers of Melanesia (1973 Film)

    Director
    Robert Gardner
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Salient features of intact culture of Bunlap villagers on Pentecost Island in the New Hebrides. Relation between yam agriculture and ceremonies such as land-diving. Details of diving as men anchor their feet...

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  2. Lady Lazarus (1991 Film)

    Director
    Sandra Lahire
    Producer
    Gill Genderson
    Subject
    English language and literature; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A visual response to Sylvia Plath’s readings of her own poetry. These readings plus extracts from an interview given just before Plath’s death provide an anchor for a film which celebrates her macabre...

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  3. Sense of Freedom (2006)

    Director
    John Mackenzie
    Subject
    Film Studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 85 minutes), £5.99

    A film directed by John Mackenzie dramatising the life of Jimmy Boyle who was reputed to be Scotland’s most violent man. After a hard upbringing he was twice charged and cleared of murder but was finally...

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  4. Teach Yourself Knots and Splices (2002)

    Subject
    Crafts
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 75 min), £14.99

    An instructional video showing how to make knots. The first part is made for US coastguard training and demonstrates common nautical knots, while part 2 demonstrates a wider range of knots for everyday use,...

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  5. Dental Phobia (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Michael Paul
    Subject
    Dentistry
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £35.00

    Shows David Simons, dentist and hypnotist, working with a patient who is phobic about seeing a dentist. Considers the theory of behavioural desensitisation and conditioned response re-learning as it applies...

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  6. Liza with a ‘Z’ (1972)

    Director
    Bob Fosse
    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 51 minutes), 16.99

    In May 1972, Liza Minnelli, the Oscar winning star of that year’s blockbuster musical ‘Cabaret’ made television history with a televised concert filmed at New York’s prestigious Lyceum Theatre. The...

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  7. Titanic: Prepare to Launch

    Producer
    Ray Johnson
    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

    TITANIC was the biggest and thought to be the safest ship in the world. This DVD charts the plans and events leading up to her launch on May 31st 1911. Her captain, Edward John Smith, came from Stoke, and...

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  8. Task Force South: The Battle for the Falklands (8 Parts) (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Gordon Carr
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 30 min.

    On 18th March 1982, a group of Argentine scrap-metal merchants raised their country’s flag on the island of South Georgia. It was an act that started a chain of events ending with Britain’s biggest and...

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  9. Fitzcarraldo (1983)

    Director
    Werner Herzog
    Subject
    Anthropology; Film Studies; Geography; History; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 157 minutes), £19.99

    With Fitzcarraldo, one of his most renowned films, acclaimed German director Werner Herzog emulates Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ in this mammoth epic set in the heart of the Amazon rainforest....

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