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Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)

Subject

Drama; English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (337 minutes), £19.99 (retail) £125.00 BBC Learning)

A television adaptation by David Lodge of the Charles Dickens novel, with Paul Schofield in the title role. Old Martin Chuzzlewit is very rich but paranoid that everyone is after his money. His grandson has...

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King: Montgomery to Memphis (1970 Film, Video)

aka: Montgomery to Memphis

Director

Ely Landau

Producer

Richard Kaplan; Ely Landau

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £50.00

Documents the activities of Dr Martin Luther King Jr in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s and discusses his philosophy of non-violence. Newsreel and television footage recall the civil rights...

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Egg Machine, The (1975 Film)

Director

Martin Benson

Producer

Paul Gare

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Designed to show how animals raised by intensive factory farming in order to save costs and increase food production. The film argues against the preoccupation with the end product to the exclusion of humane...

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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)

Director

Joseph L Mankiewicz; Sidney Lumet

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 185 minutes), $349.00

This landmark documentary chronicles the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, and culminating with his assassination in...

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Collection

Subject

Literature

Distribution

http://www.plethoreum.org/dunbar/gallery.asp

Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African-American to gain national eminence as a poet. Born in 1872 in Dayton, Ohio, he was the son of ex-slaves and classmate to Orville Wright of aviation fame....

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Wings of Angels (1999 Video)

Director

John Martin

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 65 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Drama recounting the story of English ornithologist David Lack, played by Paul Rhys, who struggles to reconcile the scientific evidence for evolution he found on the Galapagos Islands in the 1930s and 1940s...

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Blue Collar (1978)

Director

Paul Schrader

Subject

American Studies; Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (109 minutes), £15.99

After writing TAXI DRIVER for Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader made his directorial debut with this little-known drama about life on the factory floor of a Detroit car manufacturing plant. The film is one of...

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Rubens and England (1975 Film, Video)

Director

Richard Bigham

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Looks at Rubens’ career in England, and in particular at the recently restored eight-panel ceiling of the Whitehall Banqueting House commissioned by Charles I in 1629, and examines the meanings that the...

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Cutting Edge, The: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)

Director

Wendy Apple

Subject

Film & television production

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 89 minutes), £18.00

Major directors and their editing partners analyse key scenes from their films, discuss the development of movie editing over the last century and share cutting-room anecdotes. Contributors include Martin...

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Other Kenya, The (1980 Video)

Producer

Martin Freeth

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

REFERENCE ONLY (Concord) Sale (BBC), Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the contrasts in Kenya between the tourist image and the impoverished lives of the country’s inhabitants. A wealthy minority own much of the countryside and grow cash crops to sell to the...

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