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Old Curiosity Shop, The (1999)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 120 minutes), £5.99

A film version of the novel by Charles Dickens, directed by Kevin Connor.

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Christmas Carol, A (2000)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 89 minutes), £5.99 (Warner)

A version of the novel by Charles Dickens dramatised by Peter Barnes for showing on American television.

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Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

Director

Werner Herzog

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £9.99

Werner Herzog chronicles the virtual world from its origins to its outermost reaches, exploring the digital landscape with the same curiosity and imagination he previously trained on earthly destinations as...

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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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Marc Chagall (1985)

aka: Chagall

Director

Kim Evans

Producer

Kim Evans

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 52 minutes), 317.99

Explores the life and work of Russian painter and printmaker Marc Chagall (1887-1985), who spent most of his long working life in France. Looks at his work through the eyes of a young painter whose curiosity...

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C60 Buckminsterfullerene, The Celestial Sphere That Fell to Earth (1995 Video)

Subject

Chemistry

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £25.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

A Royal Institution Discourse in which Harold Kroto discusses the discovery of C60 buckminsterfullerene in 1985 in an experiment designed to unravel the carbon chemistry in Red Giant stars. The elegant cage...

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Talking About Stigma Through Disfigurement (1986 Video)

Producer

Malcolm J Brown

Subject

Psychiatry

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 16 min.

Kelly is an 18-year-old girl who fell into a fire when she was 2 years old. She suffered serious burns to her face and head and has facial disfigurement. She talks about what life is like for her,...

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I for India (2005)

Director

Sandhya Suri

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £15.99

In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the UK. The first thing he did was buy two Super-8 cameras, one of which he sent home to his family in India. For the next 40 years, the family exchanged...

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Charles Rennie Macintosh: A Modern Man (1996 Video)

Director

Richard Downes

Subject

Architecture; Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 45 min., 1998 sale: £12.95 (inclusive)

Profile of Scottish artist and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh to mark the centenary of his masterpiece, the Glasgow School of Art. Looks at Mackintosh’s youthful intellectual curiosity, early successes...

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Donor Unknown (2011)

aka: Sperm Donor Unknown

Director

Jerry Rothwell

Subject

Psychology; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 78 minutes), £19.99

Documentary about a young American woman who is reunited with her sperm donor father Jeffrey Harrison, who she only knew as Donor 150. JoEllen Marsh grew up in Pennsylvania with two mothers, and had a...

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