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  1. Sheri Headley on Eddie Murphy (1988)

    Genre
    Interview

    Shari Headley, who stars alongside Eddie Murphy in the new film, Coming to America, discusses how she got the role, and what it is like working with Eddie Murphy. She explains what Murphy is like off...

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  2. Reagan Latin American foreign policy (1983)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Labour Party deputy leader Denis Healey on the implications of a broadcast by US President Ronald Reagan about increasing Soviet influence in Latin America and possibility of using US troops...

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  3. America in the Fifties: The Beat (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Looks at the beginnings of pop music and pop culture, strongly influenced by Elvis Presley and Beat poet Jack Kerouac. However, the country’s underlying racist disregard for civil rights comes to...

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  4. From Handcraft to Mass Production: The Gun Industry in America (1984 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    In America the gun industry was the first to move from handcrafting to mass production, a development which is re-created here with the help of a gunsmith, a museum of early machine tools and a late...

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  5. 500 Nations (2006)

    Director
    Jack Leustig
    Producer
    Kevin Costner
    Subject
    Anthropology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 390 minutes), £29.99

    An eight part American television documentary series which explores the history of the indigenous peoples of North and Central America, from pre-Colombian times, through the period of European contact and...

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  6. US breakfast television choice (1980)

    Genre
    News report; Special; Advertisement

    Andrew Manderstam reports on the choice available to television viewers in the United States as regards breakfast-time programmes including ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today. Includes excerpts...

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  7. Putting Training to Work. Part 1: Britain and America (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

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  8. Ronald Reagan has audience with Pope (1982)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Report on the visit of US President Ronald Reagan to the Vatican, to talk to Pope John Paul II about Latin America, the Middle East and Poland. Includes excerpts of speeches by Reagan and the Pope. Male...

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  9. Shakespeare and the American Dream. Part 2 (2016 Radio)

    aka: Shakespeare in Obama’s America

    Series
    Compass: Shakespeare in the World
    Producer
    Maggie Ayre

    Radio broadcast, Writer Robert McCrum goes to America to assess Shakespeare’s appeal. In Washington he discovers that his plays are used to discuss ideas of power and politics. He meets Stephen Sondheim...

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  10. Inside America: The Quiet Persuader (2011)

    Subject
    Media studies; Social Studies

    First transmitted in 1965, this programme looks at Steve Frankfurt, a New York advertising executive working in an industry worth 14 billion dollars in the US alone. Used to spending thousands at a time with...

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