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Mai 68: Les Images de Television (2008)

Director

Hugues Nancy

Subject

French studies; History; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 180 minutes), 14.90 Euros

Featuring footage from French newsreel ‘Actualités françaises’, and French public broadcaster ORTF, this DVD follows the progress of the student demonstrations of May 1968, including the occupation of...

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Media Screen Roundup - October 2015

Date

12 Nov 2015, 12:35

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, and published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. In this month’s Roundup there is a focus...

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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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Vie PassionnÉe de Georges Clemenceau, La (196 Film)

Director

Gilbert Prouteau

Subject

French studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The life of the well-known French politician and the role he played in the political life of France.

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Partis Politiques en France, Les (199 Video)

Subject

French studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. 30 min., 1998 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines French politics from World War 2 to 1993.

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End of a Revolution (1967 Film)

Director

Brian Moser

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A report from Bolivia on the trial of Régis Debray, the French left-wing philosopher who was sentenced to thirty years imprisonment for plotting againt the government.

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France - French Connection (2003)

Subject

French studies; Politics & government; Sociology

Made in 2002, this documentary reveals the failure of Muslim integration in France, and the tensions which came to the fore in the riots of autumn 2004. Contains archive footage. 22 minutes.

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Great Events and Ordinary People (1982 Film, Video)

Director

Raul Ruiz

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Television programme made as a commission by the exiled Chilean filmmaker Ra l Ruiz, who was asked to produce a personal view of the 1978 French elections in his area of Paris. Not transmitted.

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TÉlÉtel 1 (1987 Video)

Producer

Ken Patton

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Massive investment by the French government in Télétel, the French videotext system, means that there will soon be one in every office and home. The network already offers thousands of different services....

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Sorrow and the Pity, The (2017)

Subject

French studies; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 260 minutes), £15.99

Documentary whcih covers the period between 1940 and 1944 during which France’s Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Includes archive footage, interviews from 1969 with a German officer and...

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