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Go West Young Man (1996)

Director

Keith Piper

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 4 minutes), On request

Man hands on misery to man. Father and son resist the stereotypes of their race and gender in this personal / historical survey of bias and prejudice. Montage and masculinity meet in an analysis of the black...

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Aftermath: The Legacy of Suicide (2001)

Director

Lisa Fitzgibbons

Subject

Mental Health and Counselling; Psychology; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 50 minutes), on application

This documentary looks at how children deal with a parent committing suicide. Meet 3 people who lost their fathers to suicide at an early age but learned the truth much later, after years of confusion, grief...

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Double Dare (2015)

Director

John Mackenzie

Producer

Kenith Trodd

Subject

Drama

Television drama written by Dennis Potter. A call girl, her client, an actress and a writer meet in a London hotel for an evening that does not develop as any of them would like. The play explores the link...

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On the Edge (2014)

Director

Cathy Denford

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 28 minutes), £20.00

Two rough sleepers who are living ‘on the edge’ meet and start a relationship that gives them confidence to rebuild their lives and re-engage with society. This short fictional film tells a very...

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Farm Aninals and Us 2 (2004)

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

VHS (PAL, 19 minutes), free to education

Compares intensive systems such as the sow stall, farrowing crate and battery cage with free-range alternatives, considering how well these systems meet the behavioural needs animals inherited from wild...

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Science Not Stamp Collecting (2009)

Subject

Biology; Environmental science

Video recording of a lecture by Professor Stephen Hopper at the Royal Society on the importance of botany from 1759 to 2059. Arranged in collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to celebrate their...

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What Will Happen when Artificial Intelligence and the Internet Meet the Professions? (2017)

Subject

Business studies; Information technology

Lecture which looks at possible future directions for the professions, both of which rest on the influence of technology. The first is a more efficient version of what we have today. The second is...

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Amchi (2013)

Director

Eda Elif Tibet

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £39.00

For centuries the only medical system accessible to people in Ladakh was the Amchi, the traditional doctor following ‘Sowa Rigpa’, Tibetan medicine. 84% of Ladakh’s population lives in villages and...

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Applying Extreme Lessons (2010)

Subject

Business studies

As volatile change in business becomes the new norm, some companies must develop plans and the leadership necessary to meet a constant stream of unique challenges. Others have long taken the attitude that...

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Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension (2008)

aka: Hunting the Hidden Dimension

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 56 minutes), $19.99

What do movie special effects, the stock market, and heart attacks have in common? They are connected by a recent branch of maths called fractals, which changed the way we see the world and opened up a vast...

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