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Thank God and the Revolution (1981 Film)

aka: Gracias a Dios y a la Revolucion

Director

Roberto Borgus; Jackie Reiter; Wolf Tirado

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Focuses on the role of the church in the Nicaraguan revolution, and includes interviews with a nun, the Minister of Social Welfare, and veteran Sandinistas who defended their country against American...

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Thomas Paine: The Most Valuable Englishman Ever (1982)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 47 minutes), £12.99

Kenneth Griffith tells the story of Thomas Paine, an 18th century Sussex customs officer who played a central role in both the American and French revolutions. Son of a Norfolk corset maker he wrote the...

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Romanticism and Revolution (1770 - 1870)

Subject

History; Literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 23 minutes), £39.00

Investigates the Enlightenment roots of the American Revolution and examines its influence on the French Revolution. Illustrates how revolt became a romantic idea during the period-a passionate outburst by...

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Alistair Cooke’s America (2004)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 650 minutes), £49.99

The British-born American journalist, Alistair Cooke, traces the history of America from the eve of discovery to the early 1970s in this classic television series.

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Friedrich Schiller: Poet of the American Revolution (1984)

Subject

Drama; German studies

Distribution

DVD (Region 1 NTSC), $25.00

Friedrich Schiller, Germany’s "Poet of Freedom," brought the ideas and the spirit of the American Revolution and the European Renaissance to Germany, inspiring the founding of the modern German...

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Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2016)

Director

Stanley Nelson

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 113 minutes), £5.99

THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION is the first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political...

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Devil’s Disciple, The (1959)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 83 minutes), $15.00

Hollywood adaptation of Shaw’s play set during the American Revolution. NB This title is currently only available in America (on NTSC video) and can thus only be purchased by individuals for personal use...

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Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War (2003)

Producer

Harvey Lilley; Georgina Harvey; Colin Thomas

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £780.00

In this four part series, historian Richard Holmes gives a revisionist account of what he calls America’s first civil war. The popular view is that the War of Independence was the American people’s...

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Architecture - Quo Vadis? (1986 Video)

Producer

Peter Adam

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

Looks at some of the most influential buildings of the 1980s including the Humana Building in Louisville by Michael Graves, the neighbouring American Life Building by Mies Van der Rohe, Arata Isozaki’s...

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Compay Segundo

Subject

HISTORY & POLITICS CATALOGUES; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 min), £17.99

Compay Segunda was filmed, in his nineties, singing his Cuban songs as he has done in Havana since the 1920s. His songs tell of promises of a brave new world following the revolution and life in Cuba before...

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