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  1. America in the Fifties: The Beat (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Looks at the beginnings of pop music and pop culture, strongly influenced by Elvis Presley and Beat poet Jack Kerouac. However, the country’s underlying racist disregard for civil rights comes to...

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  2. America in the Fifties: The Road to the Sixties (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    MacDonalds invents fast food and Detroit designer Harley Earl comes up with exuberant cars more like ‘jukeboxes on wheels’; the Russians shock the Americans by beating them into space with Sputnik. The...

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  3. Boy Mir, The: Ten Years in Afghanistan (2012)

    Director
    Phil Grabsky
    Producer
    Amanda Wilkie; Phil Grabsky
    Subject
    Anthropology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

    Phil Grabsky’s documentary was filmed over the course of ten years and follows the life of an Afghani boy, Mir, growing up in the years after the fall of the Taliban in 2002. The film traces his journey...

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  4. Bounds of Freedom, The (6 Parts) (1979 Video)

    Director
    Eric Harrison
    Producer
    Brian Lapping
    Subject
    Law; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52, 52, 52, 52, 90, 52 min.

    The series explores legal and ethical problems by means of a discussion of a hypothetical situation by a panel of eminent people representing the legal and media professions.

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  5. Consumption (2013)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £17.99

    Consumerism pervades American culture, it dominates all aspects of American life, including the work of the country’s artists. CONSUMPTION explores how artists respond to the pervasiveness of consumerism...

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  6. Soul Searching (2008)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Psychology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 104 minutes), £15.99

    David Malone’s sequel to TESTING GOD examines belief in the soul and whether it is more than just a fanciful religious idea. Is there some real scientific basis for the feeling that many even non religious...

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  7. Battle for Music (1943)

    Director
    Donald Taylor; Len Lye; Ralph Keene; Ralph Bond; John Banting; Dylan Thomas; Charles de Latour
    Subject
    History; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 186 minutes), £14.99

    Dramatised documentary about the trials of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II. The year is 1939. Following the liquidation of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the players form a new...

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  8. Soviet Influence, The: From Turksib to Nightmail (2011)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 163 minutes), £19.99

    In the early 1930s, a small number of Soviet propaganda films were shown in Britain that excited filmmakers such as John Grierson, Paul Rotha and Basil Wright - luminaries of the British documentary film...

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  9. Under African Skies (5 Parts) (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Mark Kidel; Michael Macintyre; Michael Raeburn; Richard Taylor
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 60 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £225.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

    Series looking at the diverse music of Africa: where it comes from, what it means and where it is going. 1 (producer Michael Raeburn): Among all English-speaking African countries, the music of Zimbabwe has...

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  10. Black History: From Civil War Through Today (2008)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1080 minutes), £39.99

    DISC 1 IN THE BEGINNING The Civil War - A vivid dramatization of the war which shaped the social landscape for black Americans for centuries to come. The Plantation System - A stark portrayal of plantation...

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