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To die in Madrid (1962 Film)

aka: Mourir ‡ Madrid

Director

Frederic Rossif

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The Spanish Civil War. Uses newsreel material.

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Madrid Today (1937 Film, Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows conditions in Madrid during the Civil War. Extensive shots of air attacks and bomb damage as well as fighting in the University City and scenes of children helping to build barricades. Several notable...

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Street Art - Painting the City: London Paris Madrid (2008)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 22 minutes), £9.99

The term ‘street art’ has evolved to define the more visual and engaging aspects of urban art, as opposed to simply text-based graffiti and tagging. This film follows cult figures such as Blek Le Rat,...

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Making Open Systems Work (1993 Video)

Director

Tristan Allsop

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1997 sale: £40.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Discusses how open systems strategies help the US Department of Defence with IT needs and features senior managers in five different industry sectors - banking (NatWest), engineering (Koenig & Bauer),...

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Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2007)

Director

Phillippe Parreno; Douglas Gordon

Subject

Art; Film Studies; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £19.99

A unique real-time study of one of the football’s greatest icons: Zinedine Zidane. During an entire Real Madrid v Villareal match before 80,000 fans at the Bernabeu stadium, 17 movie cameras were set up...

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Diego Velazquez: The Painter of Painters (2008)

Director

Didier Baussy-Oulianoff

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 56 minutes), £17.99

This documentary traces the career of Diego Velazquez (1599-1660), the court painter and favourite of the Spanish King Phillip IV, who rose to prominence as one of the foremost portrait painters in Europe....

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Behind the Spanish Lines (1938 Film)

Director

Sidney Cole; Thorold Dickinson

Producer

Ivor Montagu

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Begins with conditions in Barcelona which had become the seat of the Republican government in October 1937. Shows a wide range of leading Republican politicians including Aguirre, Azaña, Companys, Martínez...

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Bacon’s Arena (2009)

Director

Adam Low

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 95 minutes), 17.05 euros (EFB)

BACON’S ARENA is widely acclaimed as the definitive documentary on the life of Francis Bacon. This special edition DVD which includes special features has been created to mark the centenary of his birth...

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Spanish Court and the Italian Renaissance, The (2001)

Subject

Architecture; History

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL), £85.00

During the time when Christians, Jews and Muslims co-existed in Spain, there was a sharing of customs and ideas which is clearly seen in Seville today. The Alhambra in Granada testifies to the cultural...

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Eurofighter: Weapon of Mass Construction (2004)

Subject

Aviation; Business studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

The story of Europe’s biggest ever and most expensive defence programme. Surrounded by controversy, billions of pounds over budget and ten years late, the multi-role Eurofighters are finally being...

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