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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2001)

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 122 minutes), £19.99

Between December 1938 and September 1939 a large group of children, mostly Jews, were sent by their parents from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to the safety of England where foster families took care...

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Christian Boltanski (1994 Video)

Director

Gerald Fox

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2000 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

The French artist Christian Boltanski (b.1944) is acclaimed for his installations, which often combine an exploration of his own biography wity the European legacy of the Holocaust. The film presents a...

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When Ireland Starved: An Gorta Mór, The Great Famine (1992)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 98 minutes), 14.99 Euros

This four part series examines the causes and effects of poverty in Ireland, which led to the Great Famine of the 1840s, during which around a million people died. The episodes are as follows: 1. Causes of...

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World War Two (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

A compilation of over 2000 contemporary articles, 500 pictures, plus illustrations and eyewitness reports on World War II from the archives of ‘The Times’, complemented by video and audio clips. Examines...

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Hannah Arendt (2014)

Director

Margaretha Von Trotta

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 113 minutes), £17.99

Director Margarethe von Trotta collaborates with screenwriter Pamela Katz to explore a key chapter in the life of German/Jewish political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt (Barbara Sukowa), who coined...

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Anne Frank House, The (2000 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

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Night Waves [06/05/2004] (2004 Radio)

Series

Night Waves: Landmarks

Producer

Kirsty Pope

BBC Radio 3 arts series. Paul Allen is joined by Jonathan Miller and Henry Goodman to discuss The Merchant of Venice, arguably the play that has been most changed by history. Since the Holocaust the...

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Life in Occupied Palestine (1997)

Director

Anna Baltzer

Subject

Arabic studies; Politics & government; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 66 minutes), $195.00

In this film, Anna Baltzer, a graduate of Columbia University and the Jewish-American granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, documents her experience as a volunteer with the International Women’s Peace...

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Tenth Dancer, The (1993 Video)

Director

Sally Ingleton

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2000 hire: £6.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The story of two women dancers who survived the Khmer Rouge holocaust under Pol Pot and lived to to return to Phnom Penh and rebuild Cambodia’s the ballet school and retrace her pupils. Personal stories...

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Threat of Nuclear War, The (3 Parts) (1981 Multimedia)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, 3 audiocassettes. 3 x 30 slides. b&w/col.

Part 1: Summarises what a nuclear bomb is and how it works (discusses all the major types). Looks at the effects as typified by Hiroshima and discusses what a nuclear war might be like in Britain using...

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