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Educational Selection in Ussr (196 Film)

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A literary quiz sponsored by Soviet television for senior schoolchildren. Selection for musical education and a specialised art school. Kiev national contests in mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology.

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Screening Socialism: TV and Everyday Life in Socialist Eastern Europe

Date

10 Feb 2016, 17:46

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Article

The Screening Socialism project is the first comparative, transnational study of television cultures in socialist Eastern Europe. Dr Sabina Mihelj, Reader in Media and Cultural Analysis, Loughborough...

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Maïdan (2015)

aka: Maidan

Director

Sergei Loznitsa

Producer

Sergei Loznitsa

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 131), £15.99

Documentary. Chronicles a civil uprising in Kiev in the winter of 2013/2014 against the regime of President Yanukovyv. The film follows the progress of the revolution from peaceful allies in Maïdan Square...

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Russia Under the Last Tzar (1976 Video)

Director

John Macpherson

Producer

Paul Dukes

Subject

History

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 36 min.

Using contemporary photographs and a 1914 Baedeker the film tours St. Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhnii Novgorod, Kiev and Odessa and asks questions about Russia during the reign of Nicholas II.

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Flowers Don’t Grow Here (2006)

Director

Shira Pinson

Subject

Politics & government; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £15.00

Much of Eastern Europe has been devastated by the rapid transition from communism to capitalism. Fifteen years since independence from the former USSR, the Ukraine ­ Europe’s second largest country ­ is...

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Spell Your Name (2012)

Director

Sergey Bukovsky

Producer

Steven Spielberg; Victor Pinchuk

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £12.99

Documentary about the Babi Yar massacres which took place near Kiev during World War II, during which over 30,000 Jewish men, women and children were murdered by Nazi forces over the space of two days....

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Health (1999 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale - see BEYOND RED, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Three 8-minute films: 1) FIGHTING AIDS: The thriving industrial town of Verkhnaya Salda has been devastated by an AIDS epidemic. Economic crisis has led to the total collapse of social welfare systems and...

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