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Astronomy (5 Parts) (1990 Video)

Director

Stuart McDonald

Producer

William Woollard

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 5 x 50 min., 1995 sale: £55.00 (inclusive) series

The 161st Royal Institution Christmas Lectures series, given by Professor Malcolm Longair, Astronomer Royal of Scotland, on the origin and evolution of the universe.

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How I Won the War (1967)

Director

Richard Lester

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 111 minutes), £19.99

Lieutenant Goodbody enthusiastically leads his troops in a series of dreadful debacles on the battlefields of the Second World War, before receiving orders to install a cricket pitch behind enemy lines. A...

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Battle of the Somme (1916 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 132 minutes), £19.56

Battle of the Somme is a pioneering battlefield documentary that was seen by huge audiences in the UK when it was released in August 1916, barely a month after the events it depicted. Cinema-goers hailed it...

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Miss Mend (1926)

aka: Miss Mend, An Adventure Serial in Three Parts

Director

Boris Barnet

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 285 minutes), 35.95 Euros

Silent film produced in Russia in 1926 with the goal of rivalling the most entertaining American movies of the 1920s. It features stunning location photography and impressive stunt scenes: horse, car and...

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David Holzman’s Diary: A Film by Jim McBride (1967)

Director

Jim McBride

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 156 minutes), £12.99

Shot in 1967, David Holzman’s Diary is ‘the world’s first mockumentary’ (Vertigo Magazine). The film manages to simultaneously be very much of its time and very many years ahead of its time. It tells...

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Psychological Defence Mechanisms (2004)

Producer

Andrew Macaulay; Andrew Powell

Subject

Psychiatry; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 42 minutes), £126.00

Beginning with denial, the first example shows a normal reaction to loss - a wife cannot believe her husband is dead. The second example shows a smoker in a hospital bed. He has gangrene of his right foot,...

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Film / Notfilm (2017)

aka: Film: A Film by Samuel Beckett / Notfilm: A Kino Essay by Ross Lipman

Director

Ross Lipman; Alan Schneider

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 152 minutes), £19.99

FILM (Alan Schneider,1965, 22 mins) is the Nobel prize winner Samuel Beckett’s only screenplay, starring Buster Keaton. In his extensive Kino-Essay, NOTFILM (2015, 129 mins), Ross Lipman explores the...

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Complete Cosmos, The (5 Parts) (1998 Video)

Director

Martyn Ives; John Mason; David Taylor

Producer

Martyn Ives; John Mason; David Taylor

Subject

Space science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 5 x 50 min., 2000 sale: £14.99 (inclusive) each

Series of 25 10-minute programmes on space and astronomy.

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Vietnam: The 10,000 Day War (Parts 14-26) (1980 Video)

Producer

Ron Kelly; Paul Lang; Michael Maclear; Don North

Subject

History

Distribution

Hire (U-matic - HEFVL) Sale (VHS - retail), Videocassette. U-matic. col. 13 x 30 min (HEFVL). Videocassette. VHS. 6 x ? min (retail).

Part 14: The 77-day siege of US Marines at Khe Sanh which intensifies anti-war sentiment in America. The day-by-day drama of the most widely debated battle of the Vietnam war. Part 15: The Tet Offensive as...

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Picasso: The Man and His Work (2 Parts) (2003)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes each), £20.99 each

A look at the life and art of Pablo Picasso through a combination of exclusive home movies and intimate photos, as well as over 600 of the artist’s works (many never seen in public). During the last 22...

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