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  1. 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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  2. Putting Art in Its Place (5 Parts) (1993 Video)

    Director
    Maggie Ellis
    Producer
    Trevor Boden
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. 5 x 25 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) each (VHS)

    Series looking at works of art commissioned for public places. 1: The city of Birmingham raised almost £1m to commission new art works for public spaces. Anthony Gormley’s ‘Iron Man’, cast in a local...

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  3. Mugabe and the White African (2009)

    Director
    Lucy Bailey (2); Andrew Thompson (2)
    Subject
    Law; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £4.99

    Mike Campbell is one of a handful of white farmers still left in Zimbabwe since President Robert Mugabe began enforcing his controversial land seizure program, an initiative intended to reclaim white-owned...

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  4. First Americans, The (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Simon Campbell-Jones
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Until recently, it was accepted that although the rest of the world was populated as early as 40,000 years ago, the first evidence of human activity in the Americas only dated from the end of the Ice Age...

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  5. Euthanasia (2011)

    Subject
    Law; Medical sciences; Philosophy; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £39.00

    Do people have the right to die? Should the state condone the deliberate killing of a person? This film investigates the various religious, moral and philosophical arguments surrounding euthanasia and...

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  6. Dennis Potter at London Weekend Television, Vol 1 (2005)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 250 minutes), £19.99

    A collection of three of Dennis Potter’s rarely-seen plays made for London Weekend Television in 1980: Blade on the Feather, Rain on the Roof and Cream in my Coffee.

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  7. Black Joy (1977)

    Director
    Anthony Simmons
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (95 minutes), £15.99

    Based on Jamal Ali’s stage play Dark Days and Light Nights, this film, which was nominated for the Golden Palm award at Cannes in 1977, tells the story of a naïve Guyanese immigrant who learns the hard...

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  8. Visit Perthshire (1943)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 67 minutes), £12.99

    A collection archive films about the County of Perthshire. FREEDOM OF ABERFELDY (1943). Aberfeldy hosts troops from the Dominions during World War II. Running time 9 mins b/w. Produced by Campbell Harper...

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  9. Waverley Steps (1949 Video)

    Director
    John Eldridge
    Producer
    Paul Fletcher
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 72 minutes), £20.41

    An unusual official film, made with the co-operation of the people of Edinburgh, with something of the feel of the old German films of the twenties. It captures the bold outlines of the grey-stoned city and...

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  10. Rugged Islands, The (1934)

    Director
    Jenny Brown; Werner Kissing
    Subject
    Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 85 minutes), £19.99

    Four rare films from the 1930s and 1950s depicting various aspects of island life in some of Scotland’s most remote communities. Includes the following four films: THE RUGGED ISLAND - A SHETLAND LYRIC...

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