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  1. Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (2013)

    Director
    Oliver Stone
    Producer
    Oliver Stone
    Subject
    American Studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 581 minutes), £19.50

    Ten-part documentary series directed and produced by Oliver Stone and co-written by Stone and historian Peter Kuznick. The series looks back at human events that at the time went under-reported, but that...

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  2. Alistair Cooke’s America (2004)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 650 minutes), £49.99

    The British-born American journalist, Alistair Cooke, traces the history of America from the eve of discovery to the early 1970s in this classic television series.

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  3. African Americans, The: Many Rivers to Cross (2013)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 360 minutes), $29.99

    This film, presented by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and...

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  4. 500 Nations (2006)

    Director
    Jack Leustig
    Producer
    Kevin Costner
    Subject
    Anthropology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 390 minutes), £29.99

    An eight part American television documentary series which explores the history of the indigenous peoples of North and Central America, from pre-Colombian times, through the period of European contact and...

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  5. Prohibition (2011)

    Director
    Ken Burns; Lynn Novick
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 360 minutes), $34.99

    Three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the...

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  6. We Shall Overcome: Martin Luther King Jr. (2010)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 48 minutes), £13.90

    A selection of Martin Luther King’s most famous speeches. The subjects include: 1. The Protests 2. John F. Kennedy Lyndon Baines Johnson 3. The Violence vs. Non-Violence Debate 4. Racism and Injustice 5....

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  7. March, The (2013)

    Director
    John Akomfrah
    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.99

    John Akomfrah’s film tells the story of the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a watershed moment for the American civil rights movement which brought together a coalition of civil...

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  8. Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War (2003)

    Producer
    Harvey Lilley; Georgina Harvey; Colin Thomas
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £780.00

    In this four part series, historian Richard Holmes gives a revisionist account of what he calls America’s first civil war. The popular view is that the War of Independence was the American people’s...

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  9. Csa: The Confederate States of America (2006)

    Director
    Kevin Wilmott
    Producer
    Spike Lee
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £13.99

    An exercise in counterfactual history which explores what might have happened had the South won the American Civil War. Supposedly produced by a British broadcasting company, the feature film is presented as...

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  10. Dragonwyck (1946)

    Director
    Joseph L Mankiewicz
    Producer
    Ernst Lubitsch
    Subject
    American Studies; Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B)

    The directorial debut of American director Joseph L Mankiewicz, the film is a melding of Gothic chills and baroque melodrama. A Connecticut farm girl (Gene Tierney) finds herself embroiled in a conspiracy of...

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