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  1. Return from Extinction (1998 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Cowell
    Producer
    Adrian Cowell
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. 60 min.

    First programme in a trilogy documenting the fight for survival of an ancient tribe agains the relentless advance of modern man. This programme concerns the various threats to the Amazonian Panara by contact...

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  2. Fatherland

    Date
    5 Apr 2013, 10:28
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    2013. GB. DVD. Park Circus. 111 minutes. Price: £15.99 About the author: Laura Mayne is a Doctoral Candidate and one of the Research Assistants on the 'Channel Four Television and British Film Culture'...

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  3. Gumshoe (1971)

    Director
    Stephen Frears
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 88 minutes), £15.99

    Stephen Frears’ debut feature is an affectionate tribute to the Hollywood detective movies of the 1940s. A Liverpool bingo caller, Albert Finney, dreams of being a private eye and then finds himself...

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  4. Which Side Are You on? (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Ken Loach
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 52 min.

    Documents aspects of the miners’ strike which began in March 1984, showing the ‘battle of Orgreave’ and the part played by the miners’ wives, the mass arrests of pickets and violence on the picket...

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  5. Before the Monsoon (3 Parts) (1979 Video)

    Director
    Michael Grigsby
    Producer
    Karin Magid
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 51, 53, 37 min.

    Part 3: in March 1977, after the end of the state of emergency, the Congress Party was defeated in the elections and the Janata Party came to power. Migrant labourers conclude that nothing has changed for them.

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  6. Last of the Hiding Tribes, The (1998 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Cowell
    Producer
    Adrian Cowell
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 3 x 60 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p) each part

    Adrian Cowell traces the history of three tribes of the Amazon rainforest that are on the edge of extinction: the Panara, the Uru Eu Wau Wau, and the Ava-Canoeiro. The films focus on the dramas of...

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  7. 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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  8. An Open Letter to the Home Secretary

    Date
    11 Aug 2014, 16:49
    Author
    bufvclinda
    Post Type
    Post

    On the desk in front of me as I as write is a half-page advertisement from The Times of 10 October 1979. This treasured clipping, now creased and yellowing, is headed ‘The Fourth Television Channel:...

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  9. Page Eight and the 'newsworthiness' of film on TV

    Date
    11 Aug 2014, 16:46
    Author
    Gabriel Hernandez
    Post Type
    Post

    [caption id="attachment_324" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="David Hare in conversation. Image courtesy Museo Reina Sofia "][/caption] David Hare’s Page Eight, which premiered at the Edinburgh...

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  10. A Film4 Timeline

    Date
    11 Aug 2014, 16:30
    Author
    Gabriel Hernandez
    Post Type
    Page

    Although the idea of film funding wasn't directly discussed in the Annan Report which led to the creation of Channel 4, it was a passion of the Channel’s first Chief Executive, Jeremy Isaacs. In Europe...

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