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Right to die?, A: The Dax Cowart Case (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

Law; Medical sciences

Distribution

CD-ROM

A supported and guided ethical case study of Dax Cowart, who as a young man was seriously injured in a bizarre car accident. Faced with the prospect of a very long and painful recovery, he asks that...

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John Baldessari (2009)

Director

Jan Schmidt-Garre

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 210 minutes), £17.99

John Baldessari revolutionised contemporary art in the 1960s and his artwork is still a profound influence on young artists today. Baldessari’s work often attempts to point out irony in contemporary art...

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Bloomsbury Group, The (2009)

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 131 minutes), £15.50

The Bloomsbury Group remains of great public interest for its influence on art, literature and politics in the first half of the 20th century. Recordings of this informal association of writers, artists and...

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Face Values. Part 6: The Common Bond (1978 Film)

Director

David Cordingley

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The series attempts to present social anthropology to a wide audience and aims to show the basic similarities between people of different cultures and to suggest, through the deployment of material from...

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Tales out of School: Four Films by David Leland (2011)

Director

Alan Clarke; Edward Bennett; Jane Howell; Mike Newell

Subject

Drama; Education

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £14.40

This anthology brings together the four films written by David Leland and screened originally in 1983 - the films are: BIRTH OF A NATION, FLYING INTO THE WIND, R.H.I.N.O. and MADE IN BRITAIN, all of which...

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Red Shift (1978)

Director

John Mackenzie

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £19.99

DVD release of the BBC TV ‘Play for Today’ from 1978, directed by John Mackenzie and adapted by Alan Garner from his own novel. Spanning three separate time periods, RED SHIFT tells the story of three...

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Face Values. Part 5: Moving Through Life (1978 Film)

Director

David Cordingley

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The series attempts to present social anthropology to a wide audience and aims to show the basic similarities between people of different cultures and to suggest, through the deployment of material from...

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David Starkey’s Elizabeth (4 Parts) (2003)

aka: Elizabeth

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 197 minutes), £19.99

Professor David Starkey chronicles the story of Queen Elizabeth I, first broadcast in 4-parts on Channel 4. The series uses a combination of tableaux, testimony from descendants, contemporary documents,...

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Animatetv: 20 Years of Experimental Animation from the UK

Subject

Art; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 113 minutes), £17.50

A limited edition retrospective DVD of 23 landmark films commissioned through the groundbreaking Channel 4/Arts Council England AnimateTV project, a unique collaboration supporting innovative and risk-taking...

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Track 29 (1988)

Director

Nicolas Roeg

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 90 minutes), £15.00

Freely adapted from Potter’s BBC TV play Schmoedipus. The childless wife of a small town doctor in North Carolina, meets a young British hitchhiker in a café. She starts thinking he might be the baby she...

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