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Royal Mint

Date released

1977

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

944

NoS ID

329185

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: For two thousand years the Royal Mint, in Britain, has been making coins. So Maggie Palmer thought it was time she went and saw what happened. She came at a good moment. Not only does the Mint...

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Citizenfour (2015)

Director

Laura Poitras

Subject

Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 114 mins.), £15.99

In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted emails from someone...

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Response, The (2012)

Director

Adam Rodgers

Producer

Sig Libowitz

Subject

Law

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 30 minutes), $25

THE RESPONSE shows students the workings of the Combatant Status Review Tribunals held at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba from 2004 to 2007. It takes the form of a courtroom drama based on a...

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King Lear 11 (1993 Television)

Series

Nightingales

Director

Tony Dow

Producer

Rosie Bunting

Television sitcom about night security staff. A reprise of an idea taken from an earlier programme in the series TAKEAWAY, which alluded to Richard II, but here with many references to King Lear. Carter and...

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Merchant of Venice, The (2012 Video)

Director

Ilan Ronen

Video recording of Habima’s (Israeli National Theatre) staging of The Merchant of Venice for the Globe to Globe season. Jacob Cohen is Shylock. Spoken in Hebrew.

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Putin, Russia and the West (2012)

Producer

Norma Percy; Brian Lapping

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £780.00

This series tells the inside story of how Vladimir Putin, a consummate political operator with a background in the KGB, become a valued ally of the West. After eight years as President of Russia and four...

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Hidden Wars in the Middle East (2003)

aka: Hidden Wars of Desert Storm

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale Hire, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £14.99 (sale) £7.00 + £20 deposit hire (OPC)

A documentary offering insights about the history of Western involvement in the Middle-East, about the situation that led to the Gulf war after Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, about the hidden US...

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Great Ideas of Philosophy Series II (6 Programmes) (2006)

Subject

Philosophy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes each), £39.95 each; £189.95 set

Stimulating commentary by renowned philosophers whose lines of inquiry intersect the spheres of science, religion, politics, epistemology, and logic makes this 6-part series useful for the study of...

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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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