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Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach (2016)

Director

Louise Osmond

Subject

Film studies; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 93 minutes), £9.99

Portrait of film director Ken Loach, looking back on his career, as he prepares to release his latest film ‘I, Daniel Blake’. Features interviews with Loach’s friends and collaborators including...

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Ken Dodd: In His Own Words (2017 Television)

aka: Ken Dodd: My Life - In His Own Words

Director

Liam Carroll

Producer

Liam Carroll

Reflecting on his long and varied career in show business; British comedian, Ken Dodd, describes his forays into Shakespeare. Fellow actor and friends describe his talent for Shakespearean theatre focussing...

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Mick McGahey on Shrewsbury Two (1975)

Genre

Speech

Speech at the TUC Congress, 1975, by Mick McGahey, Scottish miners leader, on the Shrewsbury Two, pickets jailed for criminal conspiracy as a result of incidents at the 1972 building strike. The Shrewsbury...

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We Need to Talk About Dying

Date

10 May 2013, 10:47

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Article

Someone in Britain dies every minute but many risk missing out on having their end of life wishes met due to a reluctance to talk about dying, death and bereavement. Joe Levenson, of the Dying Matters...

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Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets (2011)

Subject

Law; Politics & government

Distribution

Available on BetaSP/DVcam videotape

A film re-examining the political events surrounding the arrest of 24 Shrewsbury building workers and the imprisonment of three of them, six months after the successful 1972 building workers’ strike. The...

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Hillsborough (1996)

Subject

Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £4.67

This film follows the stories of three victims’ families, from the initial excitement of match day to the legal battles that followed the tragedy. Jimmy McGovern’s dramatisation of personal grief and...

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Ken Loach Collection Vol 1 (2007)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 768 minutes), £59.99

This collection brings together many of Ken Loach’s most celebrated films, along with some that are ripe for rediscovery. Featured titles are Poor Cow (1967), Kes (1969), The Gamekeeper (1980), Riff Raff...

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Dockers 1 (1999 Video)

Director

Bill Anderson; Solon Paradopoulos

Producer

Eric Harwood; Sally Hibbin

Subject

Drama; History

Distribution

DVD

Drama based on true events surrounding the Liverpool dockers’ dispute, which began in 1995, preceded by a documentary recounting of how a group of sacked Liverpool dockers joined with Jimmy McGovern and...

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Big Stories, Small Flashes (2004)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

Nine short films by new directors, all sponsored by the Film Council’s New Cinem Fund. In addition to the films the DVD includes biogrophies of the direrectors, filmographies, interactive menu, scene...

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