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Dateline: San Salvador (1986 Video)

Director

Pamela Cohen

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

out of distribution, Video cassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min.

After years of government repression, 80,000 people risked their lives on May 1st 1976 to take part in a protest march and demand an end to the civil war. Documents that march and explores the peoples’...

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Media Screen Roundup: February 2016

Date

30 Mar 2016, 15:00

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research. This month's Media Screen Roundup features a number of articles and books on Judaism and...

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Lost World of Friese-Greene, The (2006)

Director

Claude Friese-Greene

Subject

Film Studies; Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 177 minutes), £19.99

In the mid-1920s, Claude Friese-Greene drove from Land’s End to John O’Groats making a series of films en route. These remarkable films captured the life and people on his journey in colour, at a time...

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Wonderful London (1924)

Director

Harry B. Parkinson; Frank Miller

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (75 minutes), £19.99

A collection of twelve silent films made in 1924 by Harry B. Parkinson and Frank Miller. The films were made to capitalise on the popularity of the magazine of the same name and were often based on the idea...

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End of the Dialogue (1970 Film)

Subject

Politics & government; Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Made by five black South African members of the Pan Africanist Congress, showing the situation of apartheid in South Africa as experienced by black Africans.

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Germany: The Road of Return (1974 Film)

Director

Ernest Kleinbert

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Traces the development of Germany from the end of World War II and looks at implications for the future.

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Birds and the Bees, The (2011)

aka: Joy of Sex Education, The

Subject

Health Education; History; Media studies; Medical sciences; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 338 minutes), £19.99

From the impenetrably euphemistic to the breathtakingly explicit, this intriguing anthology of 16 films takes us through 60 years of sex education in Britain from the 1910s to the 1970s. All ‘unmentionable...

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From the Sea to the Land Beyond (2013)

Director

Penny Woolcock

Producer

Mark Atkin

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 73 minutes), £19.99

Using footage taking from four main sources at the British Film Institute - the Mitchell and Kenyon collection; Topical Budget newsreels; public information films from the COI collection and travelogues from...

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Norte, The End of History (2014)

Director

Lav Diaz

Subject

Film studies; Literature; Philosophy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 250 minutes), £8.69

In the northern Philippine province of Luzon, a law-school dropout commits a horrific double murder; a gentle family man takes the fall and receives a life sentence, leaving behind a wife and two kids. A...

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Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany - Set 1 (1984)

aka: Heimat: Eine Deutsche Chronik

Subject

German studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 924 minutes), £59.99

Shot over two years, Edgar Reitz’s 11-part series HEIMAT, made for German television, is a semi-autobiographical drama telling the the saga of a German family, living in a small village, from the end of...

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