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Rocket Site Story (1958)

Director

Eric Bamford

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 20 minutes), £15.00

Film made by Eric Bamford of the of the Nuclear Disarmament Newsreel Committee showing anti-nuclear protesters demonstrating at North Pickenham near Swaffham in Norfolk. The protest was against the planned...

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Peace War, The (1983 Video)

Producer

Stuart Prebble

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 27 min.

Looks at the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Britain - its membership and the money behind it. CND was founded in 1958 and for many years its existence was largely ignored by the government. Now the...

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Countdown to Zero (2011)

Director

Lucy Walker

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £9.99

Leading politicians and political analysts including Jimmy Carter, Tony Blair, Valerie Plame Wilson, Mikhail Gorbachev and Zbigniew Brzezinski discuss the threat posed by nuclear weapons in the 21st century...

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March to Aldermaston (1958)

Subject

Politics & government; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 35 minutes), £24.98

Record of Easter march in 1958. Made voluntarily by a group of film technicians. NB Only available as part of a compilation DVD entitled THE FREE CINEMA MOVEMENT

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Aldermaston 1959 (1959)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 10 minutes), £25.00

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Threat of Nuclear War, The (3 Parts) (1981 Multimedia)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, 3 audiocassettes. 3 x 30 slides. b&w/col.

Part 1: Summarises what a nuclear bomb is and how it works (discusses all the major types). Looks at the effects as typified by Hiroshima and discusses what a nuclear war might be like in Britain using...

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And the Fence Came Tumbling Down (2001)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 10 minutes), £15.00

In April 2000 the fence finally came down round Greenham Common air base. This short film tells the story of how a US Air Force base with 96 nuclear cruise missiles came to be returned to the people after 20...

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Megaton Bomb, The: A Guide to Armageddon (1985)

Subject

Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £16.30

Using U.S. Congress and British Home Office official data, this programme shows what would actually happen if a one megaton warhead burst a mile above St Paul’s cathedral in the centre of London. Within 30...

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John Hersey’s Hiroshima (1948)

Subject

Health & safety; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 20 minutes), £19.50

Soon after the war, The New Yorker, bore a light-hearted cover of a summer picnic in a park. There was no hint to what was inside. Hersey’s article began where the magazine’s regular "Talk of the Town"...

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People’s Flag, The (5 Parts) (1987)

Director

Chris Reeves

Producer

Lin Solomon

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 300 minutes), £60.00

A series of five programmes offering an alternative socialist history of Britain in the 20th century. Part 1: looks at how the Labour Party developed at a time when the British Empire was still strong. It...

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