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Faiz: Poet in Troubled Times (1986 Video)

Director

Faris Kermani

Producer

H O Nazareth

Subject

English language and literature; Politics & government

Distribution

Out of Distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

Looks at the development of modern politics in Pakistan through the eyes of its premier poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz who died in 1984. The story is told through interviews, poems, songs and cinema clips.

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Video Recordings Act 1984

Date

28 Aug 2009, 18:37

Author

bufvcsergio

Post Type

Post

It has been announced that the 1984 Video Recordings Act, which governs the role of the BBFC in classifying and censoring home video releases in the UK, was never referred to the European Parliament and thus...

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Dole Not Coal: The 1984 Miners’ Strike: The Strikers’ Story

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

This film pays testimony to the people and politicians supporting the strike, together with the cause and effect to the striking miners in a dispute unimaginable in modern Britain, but one that has seemingly...

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1984 (BBC) (2004)

aka: Nineteen Eighty Four

Subject

English language and literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes)

A restored version of the classic 1954 BBC dramatisation of George Orwell’s 1984. One of the earliest surviving television dramas, it was recorded at the time using modified tele-cine machines and this...

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Still the Enemy Within (2014)

Director

Owen Gower

Producer

Owen Gower

Subject

Politics & government; Social sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 mins), £12.49

The film tells the story of the 1984-85 British miners’ strike. Thirty years on, this is the first-hand experience of those who lived through Britain’s longest strike. In 1984, a conservative government...

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Our Friends in the North (2 Parts) (1996)

Director

Pedr James

Producer

Charles Pattinson

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 623 minutes), £34.99

A nine-part television series depicting the varying fortunes of four friends - Nicky, Geordie, Mary and Tosker - from the optimistic times of 1964 to the uncertainties of 1995. Taking nine pivotal years...

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English Eccentrics (1985 Video)

Producer

Gavin Nettleton

Subject

Crafts; Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 45 min.

A documentary of fashion designer Helen Littman and her company English Eccentrics. She tells her story from childhood through her education, her early days in fashion to the time the programme focuses on,...

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In the Nick of Time (1987 Video)

Subject

Law

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min.

A drama designed to inform young people of their rights under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.

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Online Storage and Retrieval (1984 Video)

Subject

Information technology; Librarianship

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videodisc. Philips Laservision VP705 or VP835. BBC Model B microcomputer with disk drive (40 track).

An interactive videodisc describing the storage and retrieval of bibliographic information. It is based on a conventional training course for online searches. A ‘to camera’ presentation, set in a...

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Tuc Equal Pay Archive (2007)

Subject

Social Studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £15.00

The TUC Equal Pay oral history archive consists of eight filmed interviews with women and union representatives who have won important equal pay victories in the last 50 years. Each of the stories has...

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