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Another Great Ambassador - Wireless!

Date released

3 Jan 1924

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

645-1

NoS ID

129323

Story no

4 / 4

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "The eve of the new year, was the eve of a new era when millions in Britain ‘listened in’ to America." Shot of aerial mast and rooftops. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "In this little hut at Biggin Hill...

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Slavery by Another Name (2012)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 90 minutes), $19.99

This 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans’ most cherished assumptions: that slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in...

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A Woodland Theatre

Date released

13 Oct 1932

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

593

NoS ID

333077

NoS Summary - Folk dancing at an open air theatre in woodland in Colorado. British Pathe synopsis: "From far-off Colorado comes the real rustic Theatre." M/S of people arriving at an outdoor "Box Office"...

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The Girl and the Turtle

Date released

9 Mar 1929

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

405

NoS ID

332111

Story no

1 / 7

NoS Summary - Florida item of a girl and a turtle. British Pathe synopsis: C/U of a turtle making its way across a sandy beach. C/U of the turtle as it moves towards the camera. The turtle reaches the sea...

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Louis Malle Documentary Collection, The

Director

Louis Malle

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 818 minutes), £51.86

Malle’s little known body of work as a documentary filmmaker shows both the discerning eye of a true artist and the investigatory skills of a great journalist. This collection includes: VIVE LE TOUR...

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Comfort of Strangers, The (1990)

Director

Paul Schrader

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £14.99

Mary (Natasha Richardson) and Colin (Rupert Everett) attempt to reinvigorate their flagging relationship with a romantic trip to Venice. Soon though, they find themselves drawn into a complex web of deceit,...

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Still the Dread Shadow!

Date released

24 Sep 1925

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

735-1

NoS ID

130188

Story no

3 / 4

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "While the League of Nations is in session ‘war’ breaks out in many lands." Long shot of a meeting of the Council of the League of Nations. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "America’s manoeuvres are...

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Birdwatchers (2010)

aka: (Terra Degli Uomini Rossi, La

Director

Marco Bechis

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 108 minutes), £15.99

A drama in which a group of indigenous people face off against the modern day owners of their ancestral homeland.In Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the farming classes lead a wealthy and leisurely existence....

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Fight Against Fanaticism: Us Anti-Repression Films (2010)

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 124 minutes), $19.95

Five films fighting for freedom of dissent against bigoted oppression. Contents: DESPOTISM (1946, 11:00) Extraordinary film that seeks to explain how societies can be placed upon a graduated scale...

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Legacy 2 (6 Parts) (1991 Video)

Director

Peter Spry-Leverton

Producer

Peter Spry-Leverton

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 x 60 min., 2000 sale: £19.99 (inc. VAT +p&p) (series) - Choices Direct

Five thousand years ago, the first cities in the world were built on the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers in what is now Iraq. Here was the first writing, the first law, the first science -...

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