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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: US Relief for French Ex-Prisoners

Date released

21 Jun 1943

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

733

NoS ID

012743

Story no

3 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: US Relief for Ex-French Prisoners. DESCRIPTION: Released from a prisoner of war camp, the mostly political prisoners, have been taken in hand by the American "Office of Relief and...

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Prisoners running for charity (1986)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on a charity marathon to be run within the walls of Coldingley Prison. A convicted murderer serving a life sentence (identified only as Richard) speaks of the reasons behind his running, and the...

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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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Kenya - MP’s Study Problem

Date released

1 Feb 1954

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1287

NoS ID

019020

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Kenya: MP’s Study Problem. DESCRIPTION: The Parliamentary delegation now touring Kenya’s trouble areas, have recently visited a prison for Kikuyu minor offenders. While some Kikuyu...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: How the Mighty Have Fallen

Date released

22 Nov 1945

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

859A

NoS ID

013628

Story no

3 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hun Prisoners How the Might Have Fallen. DESCRIPTION: Near Cassel in Germany several prominent Nazis are awaiting trial. The prisoners pass the time by using their hands to make playing...

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Simon Hayward to be released early (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

British man, Simon Hayward is to be released early from a Swedish prison after serving half of a five-year sentence for drug smuggling. Unidentified male speaker (wrongly? identified in the original...

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Capital punishment - life imprisonment (1983)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a male speaker (not identified) on alternatives to death penalty including criminals serving life sentences in Britain’s prisons, and the circumstances behind the release of certain...

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British drug smugglers released from Thai prison (1993)

Genre

Interview; News report

David Kermode reports from Heathrow Airport on convicted British drug smugglers Karyn Smith and Patricia Cahill return after being released from a Thai prison. They received a royal pardon following...

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