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Tahar Ben Jalloun: Moorish Fantasies on the Left Bank (1992 Video)

Director

Greg Lanning

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Profiles Tahar Ben Jelloun, a Moroccan novelist whose controversial work has won the French Prix Goncourt. Ban Jelloun is interviewed in Paris and extracts of his work are dramatised.

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UPITN - September 1973: A Month in the Life

Date

16 Apr 2014, 08:08

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Article

A new digital resource from BUFVC examines the entire output of the global television news agency UPITN for one month. Linda Kaye, BUFVC Research Executive, explores the significance of the agency in our...

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Bank, The President and the Pearl of Africa, The (2 Parts) (1998 Video)

Director

Peter Chappell; Philip Wearne

Producer

Greg Lanning

Subject

Development studies; Economics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 2 x 50 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (inc VAT +p&p) pair

Two fly-on-the-wall documentaries filmed at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC, and among President Yoweri Museveni’s government in Uganda showing how decisions made in Washington impact on the...

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Marc Chagall (1985)

aka: Chagall

Director

Kim Evans

Producer

Kim Evans

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 52 minutes), 317.99

Explores the life and work of Russian painter and printmaker Marc Chagall (1887-1985), who spent most of his long working life in France. Looks at his work through the eyes of a young painter whose curiosity...

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France Libre ActualitÉs. No 15 (1944 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This issue of the post-liberation newsreel released in December 1944 shows: 1) French towns devastated during battles and deliberately destroyed by retreating Germans; 2) an indoor rally commemorates the...

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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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Space on Earth, Series (6 Parts) (1985 Video)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 25 min.

The six programmes survey aspects of modern architecture and show many of the most striking and controversial buildings of the 20th century. 1: Looks at the reasons for public dissatisfaction with modern...

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Great Events of the 20th Century (1999 Video)

aka: Greatest Events of the 20th Century, The

Subject

History

Distribution

DVD

A collection of newsfilm covering 101 newsworthy events of the 20th century. Items are: 1) Opening credits; 2) Queen Victoria’s funeral; 3) Wright brothers’ first flight; 4) Suffragette dies under...

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Architectures (5 Disc Series) (2009)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 160 mins each disc approx), £12.99(each disc) £40.00 (set)

A series of 29 programmes on five DVDs each consisting of five or six individual 26-minute films which present a privileged and unprecedented look at the work of leading architects and some of their most...

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