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History of Western Art (2000 Multimedia)

Subject

Art

Distribution

CD-ROM

A multimedia survey of the history and development Western art, featuring six main movements: the late medieval world, the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo to revolution, Romanticism, and Impressionism and...

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Romantic Poets, The 1 (2000 Multimedia)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

CD-ROM

A guide to the lives, times and works of the Romantic poets, focusing particularly on Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron and Keats. Contains over 120 poems in full with one poem by each poet read aloud; modern...

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Sigmund Freud’s ‘Dora’ (1979 Film, Video)

Director

Anthony McCall; Claire Pajaczkowska; Andrew Tyndall; Jane Weinstock

Subject

Psychiatry; Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Female lips in close-up recount a conversation concerning psychoanalysis as we see a series of dates and events providing a chronology of the years 1882-1905, from the birth of ‘Dora’ to the publication...

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Katerina Izmailova (1966 Film)

aka: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

Director

Mikhail Shapiro

Mikhail Shapiro’s official 1966 film of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. The Chorus and Orchestra of the Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Theatre, Kiev are conducted by Konstantin Simeonov....

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World War I (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

An archive of World War 1 material with commentary, presented in a series of documented case studies covering the chronology of the war (orogins, Eastern Europe, the war at sea and in the air, the home...

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Locomotion, Rail, Snow (1992 Video)

Director

Geoffrey Jones

Producer

Edgar Anstey; Geoffrey Jones

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 37 min., 1992 sale: £10.99

LOCOMOTION (1975, 15 min), produced by Geoffrey Jones, presents a chronology of British railway history and made to commemorate the 150th anniversity of the Stockton and Darlington railway, the world’s...

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Nazi Seizure of Power, The (1988 Video)

Director

Gordon Randall

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Covers: Hitler’s early career; Weimar weakness; who supported the Nazis and why; establishment intrigues; consolidation of Nazi power and the purge of the SS in summer 1934. Filmed on location in Munich...

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Chronicle of Protest: The Film

Director

Michael Chanan

Subject

Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 90 minutes), £6.00

Michael Chanan’s video diary of the anti-cuts protest movement follows the chronology of events over five months, from November 2010 to the end of March 2011. Chanan’s film is unreservedly celebratory,...

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Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment (1990)

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £75.00

Documents the landmark 1971 study on the power of social situations in which Dr Philip Zimbardo created a mock prison, randomly dividing a group of students into two groups - prisoners and guards. Shows how...

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Jean-Michel Basquiat (2017)

Director

Jean-Michel Vecchiet

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutess + 35 minutes extras), £17.99

In the early 80s, a new artistic avant-garde began to sweep across the walls and streets of downtown New York with the emergence of a 15-year-old Brooklyn teenager who would change the course of art history....

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