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Fifty Years of Cinematography

Date released

12 Jun 1944

Series name

War Pictorial News

Issue no

162

NoS ID

156298

Story no

1 / 1

Early development of cinematography: Lumiere, William Fox-Talbot, William Freise-Greene, Edison. Early newsreel (eg: Edward VIII as a child, Mrs Pankhurst). Early stars of the silent screen, Mary Pickford,...

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Second World War, Series (21 Volumes) (2005)

Subject

History; Military Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 120 minutes each vol), £9.99 each vol

Robert Hardy presents a condensed chronology of WWII. The first two volumes deal with the events leading up to WWII and the political background. The later volumes concentrate mainly on the major campaigns...

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Zeit ist aus den Fugen, Die (1991 Television)

aka: Time is out of Joint, The

Director

Christoph Reuter

Documentary about the work of Heinrich Müller, Ulrich Mühe and the ensemble of the Deutsches Theatre in East Berlin on the production of Hamlet/Hamlet Machine which became increasingly intertwined with the...

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Look back at the political year (1979)

Genre

Documentary; Parliamentary debate; Speech

A look back at the parliamentary and political events in 1979. The main events of the year included a General Election win for the Conservative Party; referendum on devolution in Wales and Scotland;...

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Iranian Cinema: A Political History

Date

31 Mar 2014, 10:27

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Iranian Cinema: A Political History by Hamid Reza Sadr (I.B. Tauris, September 2006), 320 pages, ISBN: 101845111478 (paperback) £16.99; ISBN 978-1845111465 (hardback) £45.00 About the reviewer: Dr...

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20-S (2018)

Director

Jaume Roures

Subject

Politics & government

The idea that democracy should be about dialogue and compromise seems to have recently disappeared from many countries including the US, Hungary and Turkey. In Spain the prime example of this new political...

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Terror in Moscow (2003)

Subject

Geography; Politics & government

Documentary about the siege in a Moscow theatre in October 2002 when Chechen rebels held the terrified audience hostage for 57 hours. It all ended in controversial circumstances when Putin ordered in his...

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Benn Tapes, The (1994 Audio)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 115 min., 2000 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

Each night for over 25 years, Tony Benn, the Labour MP and former Secretary of State, dictated on to tape his account of the daily events at the heart of government, unburdening himself of the pressure and...

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Slow Burn (2017)

Subject

American Studies; Politics & government

This podcast takes a fresh look at recent political history. In Season One, writer Leon Neyfakh, focuses on the Watergate scandal. The podcast draws parallels between the administration of Richard Nixon and...

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Burma Vj (2010)

Director

Anders Ostergaard

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £9.99

A remarkable documentary that tells the story of the Burmese photojournalists who secretly videotaped events during the Buddhist monks’ September 2007 uprising against the military regime, and who risk...

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