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Tess (1996)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 164), £12.99

A film adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel, directed by Roman Polanski.

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Jane Eyre (1996)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £12.99

A film adaptation by Franco Zeffirelli of Charlotte Bronte’s novel. DVD extras - theatrical trailer

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Rise Up Women (1992 Video)

Subject

History; Women’s studies

Distribution

Out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS (PAL & NTSC). col. 16 min., 1993 sale: £7.95

Produced to accompany a suffragette exhibition. Features a satirical anti-suffragette film shot of the time together with contemporary Pathé news footage, including the protest and funeral of Emily Wilding...

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Britain by Jove (2010)

Subject

Media studies; Social Studies; Travel & tourism

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £14.99

A collection of all four episodes of the comedy travelogue produced by British Pathe to promote holidays in 1960s Britain. A series of rousing patriotic speeches and country wide tours presented by...

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British Air Travel (1994 Video)

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 64 min., 1994 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT)

Using footage from British Pathé News, traces the growth of air passenger travel in Britain from its beginnings in the early part of the century with the foundation of Imperial Airways, through to the...

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Lenin’s Russia (1971 Film)

Producer

Richard Dunn

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Uses film from the Pathè archive showing Russia in the years before, during, and after the Revolution, ending with Lenin’s funeral in 1924, but the sequences are used not to tell the historical story of...

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Last Mitterand, The (2005)

aka: Promeneur du Champs de Mars, Le

Subject

French studies; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £19.99

A dramatised film based on the writing of Francois Mitterand’s memoirs, providing a glimpse of his life, times and legacy. The old man is dying from prostate cancer and knows he doesn’t have much time to...

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Microcosmos (1996 Video)

aka: Microcosmos: Le Peuple en Herbe

Director

Claude Nuridsany; Marie Pérennou

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £15.99

Uses cinemicrography, flying cameras and time-lapse cinematography to present a insect’s-eye view of the wildlife found in a meadow in southern France in summertime. Shows a bee gathering pollen; a...

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Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources (2000)

Subject

French studies; Literature

Distribution

DVD (225 minutes), £19.99

The two films by Claude Berri, based on the books by Marcel Pagnol, combined on one DVD

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Before Hindsight (1977 Film)

Director

Elizabeth Taylor Mead

Producer

Jonathan Lewis

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An examination of the attitudes expressed by the non-fiction British cinema of the 1930s towards the events that led to World War 2, based on research into all the available material for the years 1931-1939...

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