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Skinflicker (1972 Film)

Director

Tony Bicat

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Three urban guerillas, as a terrorist gesture, kidnap, torture and murder a cabinet minister. They employ a blue-movie cameraman to record the event. After their suicide, the material is edited by a...

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Soviet Courts of Justice (1980 Film)

Subject

Law; Russian studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Discusses courts of lustice in the Soviet Union. Includes a court sequence dealing with a road accident and an interview with the Minister of Justice. The election of judges and people’s assessors is also...

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War Pictorial News. Issue 240 (1945 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

'War Pictorial News’ was an official newsreel series which ran throughout the war and for a period after it. No 240 (December 1945) includes events such as the evacuation of children from Berlin,...

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Very British Coup, A (1988 Video)

Director

Mick Jackson

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

DVD

The complete television drama series, based on the novel by Chris Mullen, MP, in which a charismatic steelworker is elected prime minister on a radical socialist platform. When he calls for the dismantling...

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Russian Civil War (2 Vols), The (1992 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, 2 videocassettes. VHS. b&w/col. 52 min. each, 2001 sale: £2.99 (inclusive) each

Covers the consequences of Lenin’s return from Swiss exile to overthrow temporary prime minister Kerensky, the founding of the Red Army in early 1918, the treaty with the Germans at Brest-litovosk and the...

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My Week in the Real World: Clare Short (2004)

Subject

Education; FE

Distribution

Sale, VHS (60 minutes), subscription only

Famously outspoken former Cabinet minister Clare Short spends a week as a teacher in the classrooms of a tough inner London comprehensive school. At first keen to try out her own ideas on discipline and...

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Euskadi Hors d’Etat (1984 Video)

aka: Basque Country, The: A Stateless Nation

Director

Arthur McCaig

Subject

Politics & government; Spanish studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 99 min., 1999 sale: £50.00 (inclusive)

Examines the Basque-Spanish conflict, using archival material and interviews to illustrate events such as the bombing of Guernica in 1937, the execution of the Prime Minister Carero Blanco by Basque...

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Story of Margaret Thatcher, The (2010)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

This programme profiles the life and career of controversial British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Dubbed ‘The Iron Lady’ by friends and foes alike, Thatcher led her country through the hard times of...

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Perspectives on Suffering (1981 Audio)

Subject

Medical sciences; Philosophy; Psychology; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, 8 audiocassettes. 4 hrs 48 min., 1997 sale: £22.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A series of sixteen talks dealing with the subject of suffering from the diverse points of view of philosophers, theologians, psychologists and medical practitioners. Tackles some of the practical questions...

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Fawley Achievement (1951)

Subject

Energy; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 40 minutes), £8.00

The building of the Esso Petroleum Company’s refinery at Fawley, on Southampton Water in Hampshire, was an important part of Britain’s post-war industrial development. Its official opening in September...

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