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Happy People: A Year in Taiga (2010)

Director

Dmitri Vasyukov

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

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

A film profiling a year in the lives of the people in the village of Bakhtin along the Yenisei River in Siberian Taiga. Werner Herzog, who narrates the film, edited down the four hour television documentary...

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Sermiligaag 65°54’n, 36°22’w (2008)

Director

Anni Seitz

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 64 minutes), £50.00

The people of East Greenland inhabit a small string of coastal land at the edge of the biggest island of the world. Long winters have always shaped daily life here, a life that has gone within a few...

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The Age of Tyrants: Sappho Via Gounod’s Opera (2017)

Subject

Film studies; Literature

The heroine of Charles Gounod’s French opera Sapho (1851) sings her last aria O My Immortal Lyre on a Greek cliff before plunging to her death. Sappho, the most famous poet of the ‘Lyric Age’ of...

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Transmath (1995 Multimedia)

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

CD-ROM

A self-paced, self-study undergraduate mathematics tutorial package with an interactive learning facility. The modules cover material comparable to that of a first-year, two-semester course for students who...

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Joseph Heller - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/ Online

Extracts from two BBC radio interviews with Joseph Heller, In the first, originally broadcast on Radio 4’s WOMAN’S HOUR on 27/5/1980, Joseph Heller talks about: what the term Catch 22 means 0 min 41;...

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Flu Time Bomb (2007)

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

As a virulent new strain of influenza spreads across Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East on the wings of migratory birds, scientists look to the past in order to prevent a future global pandemic. The...

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Triumph of the Will (1936 Film, Video)

aka: Triumph des Willens

Director

Leni Riefenstahl

Producer

Walter Groskopf; Walter Traut

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £15.99 inc

The official record of the Nazi Party Congress held in Nuremberg in 1934. After World War 2 the film was banned because of general fears that it might inspire a new Nazi party.* The DVD also includes...

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Making It Home: Achieving Quality in Residential Homes (1993 Audio, Video)

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

out of distribution, Audiocassette. 70 min. Videocassette. VHS. col. 47 min.

A staff development package designed to promote quality in residential homes by enhancing observation skills and encouraging the introduction of positive change through discussion. The video documents a day...

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When the Lights Go on Again (2002)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 75 minutes), £12.99

Third programme in the series BRITAIN’S HOME FRONT covering the period 1943-47. Tells the story of the British people preparing for war and living through the events of the ‘Phoney War’, Dunkirk, the...

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Structural Engineers Shape the World (2004)

Subject

Careers Guidance; Civil Engineering & Building

Distribution

VHS (PAL), free

The video has been produced by the Institution of Structural Engineers to promote the profession and the Institution. It highlights the ways in which structural engineers shape the built environment and the...

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