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Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) (Video)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 35 minutes), £13.74

Franz Kafka was born in Prague, still under the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was well educated and from an early age he determined to become a writer. He worked in an insurance company and in his ample free...

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News Briefs: Compassionate Leave

Date released

16 Jan 1958

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1493A

NoS ID

022148

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Compassionate Leave. DESCRIPTION: The Army Barracks at Como in Northern Italy where Private Giullio Comparini is doing his National Service. And Shirley Holmes, the English girl born...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Two Interviews (2012)

Subject

Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 90 minutes), $298.00

Two interviews, recorded 16 years apart, illuminating the historic role, personality and thoughts of the novelist, philosopher and political activist who paved the way for Second-Wave Feminism. In the first...

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Royal Film Performance

Date released

17 Mar 1966

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1919A

NoS ID

026367

Story no

4 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Film Performance. DESCRIPTION: At the Odeon, Leicester Square, the Royal Film Performance of Born Free. Accompanying Her Majesty the Queen was the Duke and Duchess of Kent....

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Coi Collection: Vol 5 - Portrait of a People (2011)

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 291 minutes), £19.99

The fifth volume in the COI collection, PORTRAIT OF A POEPLE, proudly looks at Britain and its people. Promoting an idealised notion of Britain has often been at the forefront of COI film production: from...

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Free Cinema (DVD) (2006)

Subject

History; Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 314 +161 minutes), £29.99

A compilation, on three discs, of 16 documentary films about British working-class life produced by the ‘Free Cinema’ movement. This highly influential but critically neglected movement in British...

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Democracy: The Basics (3 Parts) (2009)

Subject

Philosophy; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1), $109 each part

A three-part series, containing contemporary footage from around the world, archival art works and photographs. The programmes are sold separately and the scripts are available free on the Hawkhill website...

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Ten YEARS ON: ROOF CONTROL

Date released

Jun 1956

Series name

Mining Review 9th Year

Issue no

10

NoS ID

345917

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: changes in the technique of roof support systems over the past ten years NCB Commentary - No branch of mining is more important than roof control underground. The pit is always slive with...

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Afghan Star (2010)

Subject

Media studies; Music; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £6.99

When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 1996, among their many edicts was banning popular music, considering it a corrupting and sacrilegious influence. Though Taliban was swept from power in 2001,...

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History of Britain by Simon Schama, A (Set 2) (2002)

aka: Simon Schama - A History of Britain

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 940 minutes), £59.99

The last eight episodes episodeds of Simon Schama’s 15-part history of Britain. The full 15 parts are available together on DVD with extras including two interviews with Simon Schama plus satellite link...

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