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Tinker (1949)

Director

Herbert P. J. Marshall

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 73 minutes), £12.99

A drama documentary (1949) about a young gypsy boy who enrols in the training school of the newly nationalised coal industry. The film was shot on location in the Durham mining villages with a...

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December 7th (2012)

Director

John Ford; Gregg Toland

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 81 minutes), £12.99

John Ford and Greg Toland’s docudrama about the December 7th 1941 attacks on Pearl Harbour was made at the behest of the American military, and then censored by the War Department for being too...

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Arbor, The (2011)

Director

Cleo Barnard

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

Blending the borders of narrative and documentary filmmaking, artist-cum-director Clio Barnard reconstructs the story of troubled British playwright Andrea Dunbar and her tumultuous relationship with her...

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Projects at Work (2001 Video)

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 2001 hire: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2001 sale: £795.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the key areas involved in successful project working - having a thorough understanding of the process and specific people issues involved. Offers solutions based on practical experience and tried...

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Code Breaker: The Alan Turing Story (2013)

aka: Codebreaker: The Alan Turing Story

Director

Clare Beavan

Subject

Drama; Information technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £15.99

Docudrama directed by Clare Beavan that explores the life of British mathematician Alan Turing and the events that led up to his death in 1954, when he ate an apple laced with cyanide following his...

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Kate Plays Christine (2016)

Director

Robert Greene

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 minutes), £9.99

Documentary by Robert Greene about the on-air suicide of American newsreader Christine Chubbuck. Chubbuck, who was a news reporter for a local television station in Florida shot herself live on air in 1974....

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Speer and Hitler: The Devil’s Architect (2011)

Director

Heinrich Breloer

Subject

German studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 272 minutes), £19.99

This award-winning, three-part docudrama tears open the veil of myths and half-truths obscuring a central figure of the Nazi regime. A man of profound contradictions, Albert Speer was a cultivated...

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30s Britain Volume 2: North Sea (2006)

Director

John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 86 minutes), £12.99

Collection of films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘North Sea’ (1938) directed by Harry Watt. An Aberdeen trawler in trouble gets assistance from Wick coastguard radio station, operated by the GPO. The first...

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Alien Worlds (2005)

Subject

Astronomy; Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

Two-part series exploring the possibility of habitable planets and alien life forms outside our solar system. Experts believe that, with the launch of a new generation of telescopes, new planets and new life...

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Classic Educational Shorts (4 Parts) (2011)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 183, 195, 202, 213 minutes), $149 each or

Four volumes of vintage US educational films compiled from the A/V Geeks Film Library collection. Vol 1: HOW TO BE A MAN - films made between 1951 - 1970 on sexual development and social guidance, covering...

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