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Death of a Princess (1981 Video)

Director

Antony Thomas

Producer

Martin McKeand; Antony Thomas

Subject

Law

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 120 min.

Ostensibly about the execution for adultery in 1977 of the Saudi Princess Mis’ahl, but the film became the subject of a major diplomatic row between Britain and Soudi Arabia. Its importance lies both in...

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View to a Kill, A (1996 Video)

Director

Rod Williams

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows the Kelley family of Texas, who exercised a new state right to watch the execution of the man who brutally killed their children Kara and Mark in 1988. Shows their week leading up to the execution,...

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14 Days in May (1987 Video)

aka: Fourteen Days in May

Director

Paul Harmann

Producer

Paul Harmann

Subject

Law

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., 1999 sale: £6.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Records the last 14 days in the life of death row inmate Edward Earl Johnson, up until 15 minutes prior to his execution in May 1987. Shows how a scheduled execution affects prisoners, prison personnel and...

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Joseph Schultz (1975)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 13 minutes), £18.00

A short film about individual moral responsibility. The Nazi troops are invading Yugoslavia; the young soldiers, after burning villages, enjoy a brief respite by a river. Then they are abruptly recalled to a...

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Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey (2010)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 35 minutes), £5.00

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, the French public turned to British history as a way of making sense of its recent past. History books written in an accessible and popular style brought the...

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Three Steps to Thermidor (1978 Video)

Director

Peter Coltman

Producer

Peter Coltman

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 22 min.

An account of the events of the French Revolution from the Serment du Jeu de Paume to the execution of Robespierre, told in contemporary pictures. - Intended audience: First- and second-year undergraduates...

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Quare Fellow, The (1962 Video)

Director

Arthur Dreifuss

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 90 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

Film adaptation of Brendan Behan’s play. Patrick McGoohan plays a young warder whose attitude to capital punishment is rapidly changed by the preparations for an execution.

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Phantom Motor Execution As a Treatment of Phantom Limb Pain (2016)

Subject

Medical sciences

Short video. Myoelectric pattern recognition is used to decode phantom movements intended by the patient in a single group, clinical trial. These movements are then use to control a virtual limb and games,...

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Designers for the World (1998 Video)

Subject

Design

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A showcase of contemporary British design, demonstrating that British designers are used by major international corporations to design products that combine innovative thinking with practical excellence....

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Eric Mendelsohn: The Einstein Tower (1975 Video)

Subject

Architecture; Design

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 24 min., 1999 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Traces the genesis of the design for this key Expressionist building in Mendelsohn’s letters and sketches from the front during World War 1. He points to some of the daunting technical problems that had to...

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