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Oedipus Rex 1 (1957 Video)

Director

Tyrone Guthrie; Abraham Polonsky

Producer

Leonio Kipnis

Subject

Classical studies; Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC). col. 90 min., 2000 sale: US$149.00 (+p&p)

Sir Tyrone Guthrie directs a version of ‘Oedipus Rex’ using W B Yest’s translation. Here, the actors wear masks, thus performing their roles just as the Greeks did in Sophocles’ time.

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Homer: The Odyssey 1 (1999 Multimedia)

Subject

Classical studies

Distribution

CD-ROM

An interactive guide to Homer’s ‘Odyssey’, containing the complete text with introduction, synopsis, key events, themes, glossary, quotations; an overview of each book; maps of places visited by...

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William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood (1972 Film, Video)

Director

Douglas Fisher

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Uses historical documents, portraits, and sequences specially filmed on location in Padua as well as in England to describe Harvey’s education at Canterbury, Cambridge and Padua, and the influence of his...

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Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror

Director

John Pilger; Steve Connelly

Producer

Christopher Martin; Richard Clemmow

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), $295.00 [Institutional licence]

Award-winning journalist John Pilger investigates the discrepancies between American and British claims for the ‘war on terror’ and the facts on the ground as he finds them in Afghanistan and Washington,...

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CBS World War II Radio Broadcasts (2003)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, CD-ROM (Hybrid, 2,200+ minutes), $9.99

An MP3 audio CD-ROM of the renowned CBS "World NewsToday" War news radio show featuring the broadcasts of Edward R Murrow, William L Shirer, Robert Trout, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Douglas...

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Greatest Speeches of All Time Vols 1,2 and 3 (2006)

Subject

English language and literature; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £17.99 each vol

Three separate DVDs each containing original footage of some of the most important and well-known political speeches of modern time by US presidents, politicians, world leaders and supporters that...

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Stem Cells: The Promise (2005)

aka: Curing the Incurable/ How to Live Forever

Director

David Malone

Producer

David Paterson

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 100 minutes), £15.99

STEM CELLS: THE PROMISE consists of two documentaries made for Channel 4’s "Equinox" series. The first part, BEGINNINGS, (originally broadcast in 1999 under the the title CURING THE INCURABLE) is an...

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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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Advertising on TV (Vols 1-26) (2005)

Subject

Business studies; Media studies; Politics & government; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 55 mins each vol), $20.00 each vol

A 26-part series covering in detail, with many examples, the theory and technology behind the development of television advertising in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s. Many of the films were...

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