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Foundations of Victory

Date released

13 Apr 1942

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1160

NoS ID

038210

Story no

2 / 2

Seeing in latest war news evidence of growing unity amongst the Free Nations, Paramount selects significant items from its world-wide coverage. Churchill with the ATS and tries a hand at bricklaying. Snow...

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Is Eve Going Too Far - In Athletics?

Date released

16 Apr 1931

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

515

NoS ID

332706

Story no

5 / 5

NoS synopsis: "Certain Medical quarters are beginning to consider seriously whether Eve, in her new-found freedom is not taking up athletics too strenuously." A group of teenage girls sit around on a sports...

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My Kidnapper (2011)

Director

Mark Henderson; Kate Horne

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 82 minutes), £14.99

In 2003 Mark Henderson was one of eight backpackers taken hostage whilst trekking in the Colombian jungle. What had started as an innocent tourist adventure, ended up as 101 terrifying days of captivity and...

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Obscene - A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press (2009)

Director

Neil Ortenberg; Daniel O’Connor

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £19.99

OBSCENE is the definitive film biography of Barney Rosset, the influential publisher of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review. He acquired the then fledgling Grove Press in 1951 and soon embarked on a...

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Romantic Spirit, The (2011)

Director

Daniel Lander

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Literature; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 420 minutes), $39.49

A fourteen-part documentary television series made in 1983 about the history of the Romantic movement in art,music and literature on 7 DVDs. Individual programmes are: BATTLE OF T HE STAGE- Plays of...

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Dancing Tips

Date released

15 Jul 1926

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

287

NoS ID

331552

NoS Summary - The right and wrong way to dance - by Phyllis Haylor and Alec Millar/Alex Miller. British Pathe synopsis: Phyllis Haylor and Alec Millar holders of the World’s Ballroom Championship in 1925...

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China: Triumph and Turmoil (2012)

Subject

Economics; Geography; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.99

Three part documentary series in which Niall Ferguson explores China’s position as an emerging economic superpower, and its subsequent relationship with the rest of the world. He travels through China...

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Terrible Beauty, A: Ireland’s Struggles (2001)

aka: Terrible Beauty, A: Two Films About the Irish Uprising

Subject

HISTORY & POLITICS CATALOGUES

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 146 min), £21.99 inc

Two films by Kenneth Griffith on the Irish Uprising of 1916.

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Sncc Fiftieth Anniversary Conference (2011)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 3120 minutes), $499.00

This 38 volume DVD set is a video recording of the 50+ hours of plenary sessions, panel discussions and cultural programmes that took place at the 50th anniversary conference in 2010 of the Student...

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Make More Noise: Suffragettes in Silent Film (2015)

Subject

Film studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 71 minutes), £19.99

This compilation combines documentary footage of the suffragettes’ public activities with comedy films of the period. These gloriously anarchic pre-war comedies are full of bright sparks like the Tilly...

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