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(Untitled record)

Date released

1944

Series name

Airfront Gen Operational Supplement

Issue no

1

NoS ID

000002

Story no

2 / 8

Fighter Support Spitfires over Channel shipping; first landing strip prepared in Normandy by D+4.

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What’s This Channel 4? (2005)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 75 minutes), £19.99

Starting with a ‘typical’ day at Channel 4, this series of three 25-minute programmes explores the way in which Channel 4 as a media institution works. The first programme (24 HOURS) takes the viewer...

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Spike TV - Dan (Television)

Director

David Shane

A promotional spot for Spike TV, ‘the first network for men’ US cable channel. Romeo and Juliet in costume in the death scene’. Juliet kills herself with a dagger, the tagline is ‘Dan hates...

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Grand Designs (Series 1 and 2)

Subject

Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 416 minutes series 1, 447 minutes series 2), £19.99 each series

A compilation of all 8 episodes from the first Channel 4 series, featuring highly ambitious people building their own properties from scratch or carrying out grand makeovers. DVD extras include six...

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Welcome to the Spiv Economy (1986)

Subject

Economics; Film studies; Media studies

Made during the industrial decline and rising unemployment of the 1980s, this documentary is a study of the burgeoning numbers of people in casual and temporary jobs, which indicates that the ‘gig’ or...

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Weather, Climate, River and Floods

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 7 x 20 minutes), £60.00

This secondary Channel 4 Learning compilation demonstrates the key physical processes affecting weather and climate. Topics include: Air Around Us; Temperature Differences; Rainfall and water cycle; Tropics;...

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Jump Britain (2005)

Subject

Sports science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 174 minutes), £12.99

A look at the physical sport of free running, a method of crossing a town or city by leaping between buildings and rooftops. Sebastien Foucan, the sport’s co-founder, and friends tackle some of Britain’s...

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Farewell to the Welfare State (1986)

Subject

Film studies; Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £31.90

A radical film examining the birth of the welfare system in the UK and its future under the Thatcher government. Archive material is used to show how poor the nation’s health was before the introduction of...

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Gulliver’s Travels (2002)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 206 minutes), £9.99

A star-studded television dramatisation of the satire by Jonathan Swift, adapted by Simon Moore. DVD extras include ‘The making of ...'

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Napoleon’s Waterloo (2004)

aka: War Against Napoleon - Napoleon’s Waterloo

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £13.99

A documentary examining not only the bloody conflict between the French and Coalition armies at Waterloo in 1815, but also the intense rivalry between Napoleon and his nemesis, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of...

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