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  1. Mark Tully’s India (1997 Audio)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Audiocassette. ? min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

    Mark Tully looks back on more than two decades as the BBC’s correspondent in India. With additional observations recorded separately, this compilation represents a record of his broadcasts that provides...

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  2. Son Nica (1986 Video)

    aka: Nicaragua: My Country

    Director
    Walter Marin; Jackie Reiter; Wolf Tirado
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 34 min.

    Nicaragua’s first free elections were held in 1984 with seven political parties participating. Looks at the new democratic processes by focusing on two women members of the new National Assembly, one an...

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  3. 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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  4. Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark (2011)

    Subject
    Geography; Politics & government

    Bahrain: An island kingdom in the Arabian Gulf where the Shia Muslim majority are ruled by a family from the Sunni minority. Where people fighting for democratic rights broke the barriers of fear, only to...

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  5. Dateline: San Salvador (1986 Video)

    Director
    Pamela Cohen
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Video cassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min.

    After years of government repression, 80,000 people risked their lives on May 1st 1976 to take part in a protest march and demand an end to the civil war. Documents that march and explores the peoples’...

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  6. Miners’ Film, The (1974)

    Subject
    Film studies; History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 49 minutes), £8.00

    Documents the industrial action taken by miners in the winter of 1973-4 which helped to bring down Edward Heath’s Tory government. The strike is seen as part of the successful opposition against the...

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  7. 100 Years of Making the News (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Kim Lyon; Leon Martindale; James Vollmar
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1997 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Covers the hundred years of news since the first edition of the Kettering ‘Evening Telegraph’ was published on 3 October 1897. Looks at events of this period - the death of Queen Victoria, the first...

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  8. Election Night 2001 (2001 Video)

    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., £13.99 (inclusive)

    Highlights of ITN’s 2001 General Election night programme, presented by Jonathan Dimbleby. Also includes behind-the-scenes footage.

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  9. Monsenor: The Last Journey of Oscar Romero (2010)

    Director
    Ana Carrigan; Juliet Weber
    Subject
    Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 96 minutes), $13.99

    In El Salvador in the late Seventies, one man was the voice of the poor, the disenfranchised, and the Disappeared - all struggling under the corrupt Salvadoran government. Appointed Archbishop in early 1977,...

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  10. New Sun is Born, A (2 Parts) (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p) pair

    1: A study of the Portuguese revolution, first examining events of 1974-76 to set the context for specially recorded personal accounts of the experience of living through a revolutionary period. Presents a...

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