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Britain’s First ‘General Strike’

Date released

6 May 1926

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

767-1

NoS ID

130527

Story no

1 / 3

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Miners leave the pits and Greatest Industrial Upheaval Begins." Group of miners walking away from pit head up slope towards camera, smiling as they pass. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "Scenes in Downing...

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Second Russian Revolution, The (8 Parts) (1991 Video)

Director

Mark Anderson; David Ash; Oren Jacoby; Angus Macqueen

Producer

Norma Percy

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £320.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series examining the government of Mikhail Gorbachev. 1 (director David Ash): How Mikhail Gorbachev became president of the Soviet Union. Yuri Andropov, the dying Secretary General, named Gorbachev as his...

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Back to the Floor, Series 1 (6 Parts) (1997 Video)

Producer

Adam Wishart

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 x 30 min., 2001 sale: £250.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series in which top managers spend a week on the shop floors of their companies.

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Military Spotlight

Series name

Rhodesian Spotlight

Issue no

34

NoS ID

351956

Story no

4 / 4

Rhodesian Spotlight synopsis: National Service Depot at Heany trains Europeans, Coloureds, Asiatics prior to their being posted all over the Federation. Recently Lord Llewellin took the salute at the first...

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100th Edition

Date released

5 Apr 1943

Series name

War Pictorial News

Issue no

100

NoS ID

156165

Story no

1 / 2

Introduction by Rt Hon Mr R G Casey, British Minister of State for the Middle East, who speaks of how War Pictorial News tries to give the true reflection of the pattern of events. The events leading up to...

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Henry IV. Part 2 (1979 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Series

BBC Television Shakespeare

Director

David Giles

Producer

Cedric Messina

Television production shot entirely in a studio with Anthony Quayle as Falstaff and Jon Finch as King Henry.

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Gambling

Date released

Aug 1949

Series name

This Modern Age

Issue no

29

NoS ID

347229

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: The gambling industry in Great Britain. A silent film and survey of the Chamber of Horrors illustrate the lengths to which a gambler can be led. Man will gamble anywhere and on anything - in...

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Flashes from far and near

Series name

Rhodesian Spotlight

Issue no

45

NoS ID

351972

Story no

3 / 3

Rhodesian Spotlight synopsis: Sir Roy Welensky lays the Foundation Stone of Broken Hill’s new Municipal Offices. The Birchenough Bridge presents a repainting problem. A shipment of large trucks hands for...

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Richard III [2-Dvd Special Edition] (2013 Film)

Series

Criterion Collection

Feature film version of the play. ‘Building on Olivier’s extraordinary stage creation, the film asks less what the cinema can do for the theatre (as with HENRY V and HAMLET) than what the theatre can...

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Richard III (1955 Film)

Director

Laurence Olivier

Producer

Laurence Olivier

What makes this ‘gloriously watchable, now as then, is Oliver’s effortlessly virtuosic performance as Richard: imperious, ironic, bruttish, sometimes hysterical and never less than smirkingly...

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