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Black Sheep (2018)

Director

Ed Perkins

Subject

Social Studies

Short documentary following the story of Cornelius Walker after the murder of 11-year-old Damilola Taylor in November 2000. Cornelius, also aged 11 and with Nigerian parents, lived nearby. His mother,...

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Miss Austen Regrets (2008)

Director

Jeremy Lovering

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 85 minutes), £14.99

Television drama based on Jane Austen’s actual letters and diaries. Jane is nearing her forties and has never married. To her niece, Fanny Knight - a young, pretty girl desperate to fall in love - Jane is...

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Losing It (2000 Video)

Subject

Education; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 2001 sale: £9.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

One in five young people experience mental health problems. This programme aims to help them begin to understand stress and anxiety, depression and disorder, self-harm, suicide and despair. Designed to help...

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Can Polar Bears Tread Water? (1989 Video)

Director

Lawrence Moore

Producer

Lawrence Moore

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1993 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the causes and consequences of global climate change. If the predictions in this programme come true, the heating up of the earth’s atmosphere brought about by man-made pollution could in time not...

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Son of the Desert (1981 Film, Video)

Director

Terry Page

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the erection, commissioning and first steps of the Middle East’s largest walking dragline - a Ransomes & Rapier W2000. The 1783-ton machine is being used to remove overburden for the Jordan Phosphate...

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Bag of Tricks (1988 Video)

Subject

Education

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. ? min., 1999 sale: £32.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A video-based training package intended to help teachers in their dealings with children to help them develop and play their own in-service programme around aself-concept approach to the children’s...

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Puppetmaster, The (1993 Video)

aka: Hsimeng Rensheng

Director

Ho Hsiao-Hsien

Producer

Qju Fusheng

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 137 min., 1995 sale: £15.99 (inc VAT)

Based on the memoirs of Li Tianlu, who appears as himself, this story follows the life of Taiwan’s most famous puppeteer and is the history of Taiwan life from 1909 to 1945. Includes several long, unbroken...

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Gene Hunters (1994 Video)

Director

Ian Taylor

Producer

Luke Holland

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Scientists are collecting blood samples from the Ahuaco and Asario Indians who live in the remote rain forests of northeern Columbia in order to provide DNA for the Human Genome Biodiversity Project. The aim...

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Hilton: Palacio del Rio (1968 Film)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The 21-storey Hilton Hotel in San Antonio, Texas, was built in nine months. This short construction time was made possible by pre-casting each room unit at a nearby pre-casting yard. Before being...

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France ActualitÉs. No 27 (1944 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This issue of the Vichy newsreel released in June 1944 shows: 1) Franco meets Civil War veterans at Alicante; 2) Funeral of Patriach Sergins of Lithuania and Latvia after his murder by Bolshevik agents; 3)...

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