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Parliament and Government (1999 Multimedia)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

CD-ROM

A CD-ROM presentation of UK government, with video footage, two hours of audio, graphics, photographs, searchable databases, links to websites It covers parliament (history, Palace of Westminster,...

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Dissolution of the Monasteries, The 2 (1981 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p)

Professor A G Dickens discusses the religious and political background to the Dissolution and shows how the great wealth of the Church was seen by ThomasCromwell as the answer to the financial needs of the...

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Jerusalem: The East Side Story (2008)

Director

Mohammed Alatar

Subject

Arabic studies; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 57 minutes), £20.00

This documentary, produced by the Palestine Agricultural Relief Committees, looks at the Israeli government’s policy regarding the city and its inhabitants and includes interviews with Palestinian and...

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When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun (2010)

Director

Dirk Simon

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 114 minutes), £19.99

Dirk Simon’s film about the history of the Tibetan people’s struggle for freedon begins in 1950: the Tibet was incorporated by the People’s Republic of China. In 1959, following the Tibetan Rebellion,...

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Protestant Reformation, The (1996 Video)

Subject

History; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 1997 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p)

In 1517 Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses on a church door in Wittenberg, Germany, signalling the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Filmed on location in Europe, the programme studies the...

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Eye on the White House (6 Parts) (1989 Video)

Director

John Barlow

Producer

John Miller

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 x 26 min.

Looks at the way ABC, one of the three large American network television companies, interpreted the 1988 Presidential election campaign to the American electorate. Shows editorial and production processes...

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African Americans, The: Many Rivers to Cross (2013)

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 360 minutes), $29.99

This film, presented by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and...

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Son Nica (1986 Video)

aka: Nicaragua: My Country

Director

Walter Marin; Jackie Reiter; Wolf Tirado

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 34 min.

Nicaragua’s first free elections were held in 1984 with seven political parties participating. Looks at the new democratic processes by focusing on two women members of the new National Assembly, one an...

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Leopard, The (2004)

Subject

History; Italian studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 188 minutes), £19.99 (sale)

A restored, original version of Visconti’s adaptation of the novel by Guiseppe di Lampedusa, set in 1860-62 during the period of Italian unification. It tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family...

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Britain 1750-1900 (2000 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 100 min., 2000 sale: £7.50 (inclusive)

Series looking at the response to industrialisation and exploring how the day-to-day lives its people changed as Britain transformed into an industrialised nation. In five parts, covering: migration and...

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