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  1. Decade of Destruction: Storms of the Amazon (1986 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Cowell
    Producer
    Roger James
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

    Argues that deforestation will change the climate of the Amazonia and its surrounding regions. Trees push moisture into the atmosphere, thus generating rainfall, which can be used by all plants. Cutting the...

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  2. Decade of Destruction: Mechanics of the Forest (1986 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Cowell
    Producer
    Roger James
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

    A tenth of the world’s species live in Amazonia, feeding off each other, pollinating each other, dependent in a web of life. A botanist and a zoologist explain and show the delicate balance between plant...

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  3. Woman in Black, The (1989)

    Subject
    Drama; English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 101 minutes), £22.49

    TV adaptation by Nigel Kneale of Susan Hill’s celebrated ghost story, starring Bernard Hepton and Adrian Rawlings. Now deleted, this title can be obtained second hand both in the UK and USA.

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  4. Mucking Up the Med (1990 Video)

    Director
    Ashley Bruce
    Producer
    Ashley Bruce
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    The Mediterranean Sea’s endangered monk seal, numbers of which have decreased from 10,000 to 300, symbolises the environmental degradation of the sea, caused by over-development, over-fishing and the...

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  5. Taking the Lid off (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Nigel Evans
    Subject
    Mental Health and Counselling; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £20.00

    Examines aspects of child abuse and the effects of such abuse on children and parents and their relationships. Filmed at the Gravesend Catholic Children’s Society Familymakers Unit where abused children...

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  6. Nicaragua: A Nation’s Right to Life (1983 Video)

    Producer
    Alan Lowery
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

    John Pilger visits Nicaragua and investigates the society in post-revolutionary times, in the context of the feudal role of the Samoza family which preceded the Sandinista takeover.

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  7. Tenor Man’s Story, The: Sir Peter Pears (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 53 min.

    A film made to celebrate Peter Pear’s 75th birthdayin which the tenor talks about his life to Donald Mitchell. His works are illustrated by stills, film clips and excerpts from Britten’s works.

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  8. Seeds of Hope: The Village (1985 Video)

    Director
    Malcolm Hirst; Charles Stewart
    Producer
    Charles Stewart
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min.

    Filmed in Ethiopia over a three-year period from 1983 to 1986, the programme chronicles how environmental destruction and mismanaged aid pushed a village and its people to the edge of extinction. Focuses on...

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  9. Oi for England (1982 Video)

    Director
    Tony Smith
    Producer
    Sue Birtwistle
    Subject
    Drama; Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min.

    The play by Trevor Griffiths. ‘Ammunition’, a group of four white skinheads, play and sing protest music in an area torn by racial violence. Their environment and inability to find employment leads to...

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  10. Birth of a Nation (1982 Video)

    Director
    Mike Newell
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £30

    A play made for television that looks at the conflict between the old, authoritarian methods of school teaching and the more relaxed methods favoured by progressive teachers. Features an idealistic master...

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