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In the Year of the Pig (1968 Film)

Director

Emile de Antonio

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A historical account of Vietnam beginning in the 1840s and showing events leading to the current war. Its thesis is that ‘the United States intervention in Vietnam is immoral, unjust, impractical and...

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Open Golf Stars

Date released

10 Jul 1952

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1205A

NoS ID

017907

Story no

3 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Open Golf Stars. DESCRIPTION: At Royal Lytham St Annes, the Open Golf Championship is an affair of keen rivalry between stars from many clubs and countries. SHOTLIST: Cut story - GV...

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Imposter, The (2013)

Director

Bart Layton

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

Documentary, featuring dramatised sections, telling the story of French-Algerian Frédéric Bourdin, who convinced the Barclay family from Antonio Texas, that he was in fact their son Nicholas, who had...

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Barcelona: Utopia (1986 Video)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 26 min.

An ethnographic film concerned with the way iun which large-scale town planning in Barcelona since the 19th century has been an expression of various utopian ideals revealed in the architecture of Gaudi and...

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Charge and Countercharge (1968 Film)

Director

Emile de Antonio

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Extensive film footage from the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings showing the tactics of Senator Joseph R McCarthy and the organisation of the hearings themselves.

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My Kidnapper (2011)

Director

Mark Henderson; Kate Horne

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 82 minutes), £14.99

In 2003 Mark Henderson was one of eight backpackers taken hostage whilst trekking in the Colombian jungle. What had started as an innocent tourist adventure, ended up as 101 terrifying days of captivity and...

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Gustav Mahler (2018)

Subject

Music

Podcast series. Conductor and pianist Sir Antonio Pappano discusses Gustav Mahler, whose extreme, powerful and raw symphonic writing stretches both conductors and orchestras to their limits. This is the...

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Best V Best (Vol 2) (2006)

Subject

Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 128 minutes), £14.99

A selection of award-winning short films, including winners and nominees from the Sundance, Berlin, BAFTA, Tribeca and Cannes festivals. Includes: HIBERNATION (UK), UNDRESSING MY MOTHER (Ireland), THE DAY I...

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Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978 Video)

aka: Albero Degli Zoccoli, L’

Director

Ermanno Olmi

Subject

Italian studies; Media studies

Distribution

Videocassette. VHS. col. 170 min., 2001 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

Feature film about a poor farming family in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. The family sacrifices to send the son to school, but his shoes break and there is no money to replace them.

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Gaudi’s Barcelona (2010)

Director

Roger Thomas

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £14.99

Documentary about the life and work of architect Antoni Gaudi, narrated by Robert Elms. The programme gives a detailed account of the famous architect’s personal life and also looks at his strange but...

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