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  1. Darshan: An Indian Journey (1989 Video)

    Director
    Gerry Troyna
    Producer
    Rebecca Dobbs
    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., 1993 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A journey through the heart of India, from Delhi in the north through Benares, the sacred city on the Ganges; through Jaidal, a village in the Ganges plain; through Calcutta, India’s largest city; and into...

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  2. 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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  3. Second Nature (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Derelict land can be regard as either decaying poisoned wasteland or an uncultivated wildlife site. It co-exists with the steady erosion of greenfield sites. The Ackers Project in Birmingham and the West...

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  4. View to a Kill, A (1996 Video)

    Director
    Rod Williams
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows the Kelley family of Texas, who exercised a new state right to watch the execution of the man who brutally killed their children Kara and Mark in 1988. Shows their week leading up to the execution,...

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Between Life and Death (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Thomas
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 51 min.

    Looks at the near-death experience and the scientific researh that has attempted to explain how people who have technically died can make astonishing recoveries and remember inexplicable encounters or...

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  8. 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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  9. Nothing is What It Seems (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Physics; Religious studies
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1993 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    For some people, the scientific advances of the last few centuries seemed to push God out of the picture, but modern physics has opened the world up in quite extraordinary ways, almost allowing God in the...

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  10. Reclaiming the City (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Environmental science
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Birmingham has become a concrete city designed to cope with the motor car but ignoring its human components, resulting in a dangerous and unattractive environment. Planners and architects are concerned with...

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