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I was a Soldier (1970)

Director

Michael Grisby

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 93 minutes including extras), 20 euros

One of the first films to deal with the experiences of Vietnam vets returning home, first shown on ITV in 1970. Michael Grigsby travelled to a small town in Texas and spoke to three men who had recently...

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Laura Knight (1877-1970) (1989 Film, Video)

Director

Jane Jackson

Producer

Jim Berrow

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Laura Knight tells her story through radio and film interviews recorded in her lifetime; it is illustrated by her paintings. Her favourits subjects were the ballet, gypsies and the circul. During World War 2...

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Au Soleil et ‡ L’Ombre de la Pac (1993 Video)

Director

Jacqueline Bonnamour; Jean-Louis Tissier

Subject

Agriculture; French studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL or SECAM). col. 20 min., 1995 sale: 200FF

Shows how agriculture has evolved in France between 1970 and 1990 under the influence of the Common Agricultural Policy, using a study undertaken by the Centre for Rural Geography at the Ecole Normale...

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Massey Ferguson Farm Implements and Machinery: Part 2 1970 - 77 (2012)

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £16.95

Part 2 looks at the period 1970-1977, when Massey Ferguson was responding to the drive for increased agricultural output. The programme features a range of seven different ploughs from and MF 40 2-furrow to...

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Anton Chekhov Collection, The (2008)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 1094 minutes), £33.58

A 6-disc set of BBC television productions of Chekhov’s plays. Contents: PLATONOV with Rex Harrison in the title role (Play of the Month, 1971); THE WOOD DEMON with Ian Holm in the lead role (1974); THE...

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Alan Clarke at the BBC: Vol. I: Dissent (1969-1977) (2016)

aka: Dissent and Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969-1989)

Director

Alan Clarke

Subject

Drama; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 978 minutes), £69.99

This box set brings together all of the surviving standalone BBC TV dramas that Alan Clarke directed between 1969- 1977, including such neglected classics as Horace, ‘Penda’s Fen’, ‘Diane’ and...

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Three Generations of Children (1982 Video)

Director

Michael Hall

Producer

Michael Hall

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 55 min.

Great Britain is unique in having started three national birth cohort or longitudional studies of children at intervals of 12 years, over a period of 24 years. These studies have provided the opportunity to...

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Bukowski at Bellevue (1970 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 60 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

Amateur footage of a poetry reading by Charles Bukowski at Bellevue (Washington) Community College in 1970.

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Masterworks of American Avant-Garde Experimental Film 1920-1970

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 418 minutes), €50.00

This collection includes 37 films, restored to high-definition, from some of the foremost experimental filmmakers of the 20th century. Commencing in 1920 with Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand’s creative...

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Conversations with Philip Guston

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), on request

Art historians and critics talk with Philip Guston about his ideas and new work of the 1970’s. Filmed during the making of "PHILIP GUSTON: A Life Lived". With the participation of Roberta Smith, Jan...

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