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Thomas Paine: The Most Valuable Englishman Ever (1982)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 47 minutes), £12.99

Kenneth Griffith tells the story of Thomas Paine, an 18th century Sussex customs officer who played a central role in both the American and French revolutions. Son of a Norfolk corset maker he wrote the...

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Dreyfus Affair, The (1983 Video)

Director

Peter Coltman

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 36 min., 1999 sale: £17.50 (+VAT +p&p)

An account of and assessment of a miscarriage of justice which divided French society and the effects of which are still felt today. Looks at the Dreyfus case of alleged espionage, how it became the...

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France ActualitÉs. No 23 (1944 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This issue of the Vichy newsreel released in May 1944 shows: 1) Ruins of historical and religious monuments and ordinary housing throughout France ‘devastated by those who call themselves our...

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Tough Being Loved by Jerks (2015)

Producer

Daniel Leconte

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 102 mins), $149.00

Documentary. Because he had published the twelve Danish cartoons that had incurred the wrath of Muslims worldwide, Philippe Val, the editor of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper, was cited to court...

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Revolutions and the Modern State (1987 Video)

Producer

Vic Lockwood

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Eric Hobsbawm, Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London, and Michael Mann, Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, discuss key features of modern states by looking more...

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Hitchcock at War (1944 Video)

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 25, 31 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Two propaganda films made by Alfred Hitchcock for the Ministry of Information at the Welwyn Studios with French cast and crew. The films were made quickly (both were shot between 20 January and 25 February...

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Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973)

Director

Rene Vienet

Subject

Film studies; Philosophy; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 95 minutes), $14.99

"Directed" by the French situationist Rene Vienet, this film is an exercise in intellectual absurdity: A Hong Kong martial arts movie overdubbed with French political diatribes and philosophies which is...

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His Master’s Voice (2009)

aka: Voix de son Maître, La

Director

Gérard Mordillat; Nicolas Philibert

Subject

Business studies; Economics; French studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (100 minutes), 20 Euros

The titans of 12 major companies, including Jacques Lemonnier of IBM France and Francois Dalle of L’Oreal, talk directly to the camera about power, hierarchy, trade unions, strikes, and self-management....

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Lévi-Strauss at Unesco’s 60th Anniversary (2008)

Subject

Anthropology; Philosophy; Politics & government

A video recording of a speech given by Claude Lévi-Strauss on 16 November 2005 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of UNESCO’s foundation, streamed as part of the online version of the UNESCO Courier...

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Debtocracy (International Version) (2011)

Director

Costas Efimeros

Subject

Economics; Geography

For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. DEBTOCRACY seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media. The documentary...

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