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Incarcerating Us (2016)

Director

Regan Hines

Producer

Vincent Vittorio

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 84 minutes), $15.99

Feature-length documentary that exposes America’s prison problem and explores ways to implement vital criminal justice reforms. With 2.3 million people behind bars, the US has the largest prison population...

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Xy Chelsea (2019)

Director

Tim Travers Hawkins

Subject

American Studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes)

Documentary about ex-soldier whistleblower and trans woman Chelsea Manning, who disclosed over 750,000 documents to Wikileaks. She was supposed to spend most of the rest of her life behind bars in an...

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Mathematics: A Social Perspective/Case Study: Catastrophe Theory (1979 Video)

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1994 sale: £60.00 (+VAT +p&p) combined with three other programmes from the course on a single cassette.

Shows how some of the more recent advances in mathematics have caused controversy when applied to areas of social concern. Christopher Zeeman introduces some of the mathematical ideas behind catastrophe...

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Real Little Dorrit, The: Charles Dickens and Debtors Prisons

David Thomas examines the reality behind Charles Dickens’ fiction, using records from the National Archives as he explains what Victorian debtors’ prisons were really like and how accurate Dickens’...

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Offending Behaviour (1988 Video)

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 45 min.

A video-based training pack, with the video in two parts: 1) a documentary which looks at the philosophy behind ‘offence-based activities’. The analysis is illustrated using live groups and individual...

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Back to the Floor, Series 4 (8 Parts) (2000 Video)

Producer

Hugh Dehn

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 8 x 30 min., 2001 sale: £300.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series in which top managers spend a week on the shop floors of their companies.

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Tattooed Tears (1978)

Director

Nicholas Broomfield; Joan Churchill

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £35.99

Filmed over a period of three months in a Californian prison for 17-21-year-old male offenders where an ostensibly liberal administration is turning young delinquents into institutionalised criminals. Two of...

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Nick Broomfield - The Early Works (2006)

Director

Nicholas Broomfield

Subject

Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 610 minutes), £34.99

A collection of documentary-maker Nick Broomfield’s earliest works. Features WHO CARES (1970), PROUD T BE BRITISH (1973), BEHIND THE RENT STRIKE (1974), JUVENILE LIAISON (1975), JUVENILE LIAISON II (1990),...

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Don’t Make Me Angry (4 Parts) (2008)

Subject

Mental Health and Counselling; Psychology

This series of four programmes features teenagers who decide that their short temper is no longer acceptable. They work with psychologist Dr Rachel Andrew to identify and manage the situations that make them...

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World in Action: Volume 1 (2005)

Subject

Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £7.20

Released to mark ITV’s 50th anniversary, this DVD contains twelve editions of WORLD IN ACTION, ITV’s flaghship current affairs programme. Lasting four decades (from the 60s to the 90s) this...

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