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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Alabama 40 Years on (1979 Film)

Director

Carol Bell

Producer

Alan Yentob

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

At the height of the American depression in the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975) travelled south to Alabama. They lived with a family of poor white white farmers...

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Sacred Harp Singers (1984 Video)

Director

Mark Brice

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 85 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A moving portrait of harp singers Leonard and Mazine Lacy. Sacred harp music is a kind of harmonised plainsong practiced in rural America. This film was shot in Sand Mountain, Alabama.

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Martin Luther King Jr: Been to the Mountaintop (2008)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 71 minutes), £17.99

Seen and heard in this original footage are highlights of dramatic speeches and conversations of Martin Luther King Jr spanning 1956 to 1968, including his last address on April 3, 1968, the night before his...

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Incident at Brown’s Ferry (1977 Film)

Producer

Robert Richter

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Examines the question of nuclear power plant safety, based on an accidental fire at Brown’s Ferry, Alabama in 1975.

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Brecht’s Songs (1991 Audio)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

out of distribution, Audiocassette. ? min., 1998 sale: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the importance of Brecht’s songs in their dramatic context with epecial emphasis on ‘Mother Courage’. Includes a discussion of how Brecht composed ‘The Alabama Song’ with Kurt Weill.

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To Kill a Mockingbird (2002)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £39.90

Filmed on location in Monroeville, Alabama, the real-life setting for the fictional Maycomb in Harper Lee’s novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and the author’s home town. The video contains interviews...

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Eyes on the Prize (1988 Video)

Producer

Orlando Bagwell

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 6 x 60 min., 1995 sale: £22.99 each part, £122.00 set (inc. VAT +p&p)

The story of the US civil rights movement from 1954 to 1965, when the struggle for social justice became a mass movement that transformed American society. The films use news footage and interviews to...

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Martin Luther King Jr: I Have a Dream (2008)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 71 minutes), £17.99

This historical compilation features original footage of highlights of major speeches given by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1. Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. - August 28, 1963 2. Brown Chapel,...

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Our Mockingbird (2016)

Director

Sandy Jaffe

Subject

Literature; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 65 minutes), $295.00

OUR MOCKINGBIRD is a documentary that uses Harper Lee’s 1960 novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ as a lens to view race, class, gender and justice, then and now. Woven through the film is the story of two...

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War, The (2013)

aka: War, The: A Ken Burns Film

Director

Ken Burns

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 900 minutes), £39.99

Ken Burns’ seven part documentary series film focuses on World War II in a bottom-up fashion, viewing the conflict through the experiences of four quintessentially American towns: Luverne in Minnesota,...

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