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  1. Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-Shen Chern (2011)

    Director
    George Paul Csicsery
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 60 minutes), $25.00

    Biographical documentary examining the life of Shiing-shen Chern (1911-2004). Chern is one of the fathers of modern differential geometry. The film traces his life and accomplishments through interviews with...

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  2. Time Flies (1944 Film)

    Director
    Walter Forde
    Producer
    Edward Black

    Feature film comedy. Tommy Handley and friends are transported back in time to Elizabethan England. Among various encounters with Elizabethans, Susie Barton enters the Globe theatre and finds William...

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  3. Cynthia Payne on Hayes programme (1987)

    Genre
    Interview; Phone-in; Advertisement

    Brian Hayes interviews Cynthia Payne, English sex party hostess, about her life and work and her recently released biographical film, Personal Services, written by David Leland; and the public phone in with...

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  4. Recently added to the Moving Image Gateway

    Date
    9 Jul 2013, 09:24
    Author
    Andrew Ormsby
    Post Type
    Post

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes nearly 1,400 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new...

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  5. Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2016)

    Director
    Peter Greenaway
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £15.99

    Biographical drama about the Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein. Focusing on the time that Eisenstein (Elmer Bäck) spent in Mexico in 1931 filming his drama ‘Que Viva Mexico!', the film examines the...

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  6. Body of Work (2011)

    Director
    Jo Ann Kaplan
    Producer
    Fiz Oliver
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 119 minutes), £21.00

    This collection of films by Jo Ann Kaplan comprises a selection of her most personal work, as well as her biographical film about Maya Deren. MAYA DEREN: INVOCATION is narrated by Helen Mirren, with original...

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  7. Dexter Gordon - More Than You Know (1996 Video)

    Director
    Don McGlynn
    Subject
    Media studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 52 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

    A biographical documentary on the jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon. Using a wide range of material including performances and interviews, Gordon narrates his own life. The film includes performances from...

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  8. Poets and People (3 Parts) (1987 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30, 45, 45 min.

    Part 1: Douglas Dunn reads his poems to a mixed-age audience at a community school on a deprived housing estate outside Edinburgh. An account of Dunn’s background is illustrated by stills of places...

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  9. Letters from Baghdad (2017)

    Director
    Zeva Oelbaum; Sabine Krayenbuhl
    Subject
    Archaeology; History; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £7.00

    Biographical documentary about the explorer, cartographer, photographer, archaeologist and ethnographer Gertrude Bell, who travelled widely in Arabia before being recruited by British military intelligence...

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  10. Terrible Beauty, A: Ireland’s Struggles (2001)

    aka: Terrible Beauty, A: Two Films About the Irish Uprising

    Subject
    HISTORY & POLITICS CATALOGUES
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 146 min), £21.99 inc

    Two films by Kenneth Griffith on the Irish Uprising of 1916.

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