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Storm over Asia (1928 Video)

aka: Potomok Chingis-Khana

Director

Vsevolod I Pudovkin

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD

Set in Mongolia under the rule of British occupational forces, tells the story of a young trapper who appears to be the long-lost descendant of Genghis Khan. The people plan to set him up as Prince Genghis...

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Brave Don’t Cry, The (1952)

Director

Philip Leacock

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 179 minutes), £16.33

A reconstruction of a disaster at Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery, Ayrshire, in 1950, dramatises the tense events of the rescue of miners trapped underground after a pit shaft was flooded and nine men were...

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Irish Destiny (1926)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 78 minutes), 11.99 Euros

IRISH DESTINY is a love story set against the backdrop of the War of Independence produced by Dr Isaac Eppel in 1926. The film interweaves actual newsreel footage of the Black and Tans, the burning of Cork,...

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Dawson City: Frozen Time (2019)

Director

Bill Morrison

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 121 minutes), £10.76

Named as one of the best films of 2017 by more than 100 critics worldwide, this film tells the true story of a long-lost collection of over 500 nitrate film prints dating from the early 1900s found buried in...

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Roger and Me (2004)

Subject

Economics; Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £12.99

A tragi-comic documentary in which satirist Michael Moore ruthlessly pursues General Motors CEO Roger Smith to confront him about the harm done to the thriving community of Flint, Michigan when 35,000 jobs...

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Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, The (1975 Film)

Director

Volker Schlöndorff; Margaretha von Trotta

Subject

Politics & government; Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Feature film about a woman who becomes the target for police surveillance and exploitative news coverage after spending a night with a suspected terrorist. Based on the novel by Heinrich Böll.

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Anne Frank House, The (2000 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

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Some Babies die (1986 Video)

Director

Martyn Langdon Down

Subject

Medical sciences; Social welfare

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 55 min., 1996 sale: £49.50 (+VAT +p&p) (EMFV)

An exploration of stillbirth and neonatal grief in the experience of two families. Shows the importance of allowing parents contact with a dead infant, so that natural grieving can take place. Features the...

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Lost World of Friese-Greene, The (2006)

Director

Claude Friese-Greene

Subject

Film Studies; Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 177 minutes), £19.99

In the mid-1920s, Claude Friese-Greene drove from Land’s End to John O’Groats making a series of films en route. These remarkable films captured the life and people on his journey in colour, at a time...

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Lost World of Tibet, The: The Director’s Cut (2008)

Director

Emma Hindley

Producer

Emma Hindley

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

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

Dan Cruickshank presents this illuminating documentary about life in Tibet prior to the brutal Chinese occupation of 1950. Colour films dating back to that period have been carefully restored, revealing...

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