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Story of Children and Film, A (2014)

Director

Mark Cousins

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 106 minutes), £15.99

Mark Cousins tells the story of children in film through a selection of clips from 53 films from 23 different countries.

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Panorama Special: Truth About Adoption, The (2011)

Subject

Social welfare

Adoption is now high on the political agenda as the best option for the 65,000 children in care. But, with less than 5% actually placed for adoption, children must wait an average two years and seven months...

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Sun Flight (1966)

Director

Gerald McDermott

Subject

Film studies

Gerald McDermott is an exceptional animator who only made five short animated films before he changed careers and became a Caldecott Award-winning children’s author. ‘Sun Flight’ has been out of...

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Never to Late to Tell

Subject

Mental Health and Counselling; Social Studies

Sexual abuse of children is an uncomfortable theme that people naturally shy away from. This instructional/training film, produced by NHS Lanarkshire’s gender-based violence services, raises awareness of...

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Coi Collection: Vol 1 - Police and Thieves (2010)

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 296 minutes), £19.99

The first volume in a series of DVD compilations of films made by the Central Office of Information. Established in 1946, the Central Office of Information (COI) was a successor to the wartime Ministry of...

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Stonecutter (1960)

Director

Gerald McDermott

Subject

Film studies

Gerald McDermott made this, his first commercial film, at the age of 19. An extremely complex animation short featuring approximately 2000 animation cels presented in six minutes. Influenced by Klee and...

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Resilience (2016)

aka: Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope

Director

James Redford

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $225.00

Educational documentary which follows pioneering doctors who looked at the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) research and began developing a new way of thinking about health and social problems. Studies...

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Newsnight: Phonics Features (2005)

Subject

Education; English language and literature

Three 15-minute reports on the use of synthetic phonics in teaching reading. Broadcast on BBC’s Newsnight in May 2005.

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Sound Waves (2008)

Director

Sasha Andrews; Jeanne Guiraud

Subject

Social welfare

A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted electronic device which can make it possible for the profoundly deaf to hear sound. Although it sounds like a miracle cure, the use of cochlear implants is...

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Trauma and the Brain

Subject

Mental Health and Counselling

A short animation produced by NHS Lanarkshire’s Ending Violence and Abuse (EVA) Services to give Police Scotland officers an understanding of the impact of trauma on survivors of sexual assault and abuse....

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