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Historical Disasters: Black Christmas (2012)

Subject

History

This documentary tells the story of the Pretoria Pit Disaster of 21 December 1910 in which 344 men and boys died, after an explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit, near Bolton, Lancashire. The film...

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Free Cinema (1957 Video)

Director

Lindsay Anderson; John Fletcher; Karel Reisz

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

DVD

Three short documentary films about British working-class life produced by the ‘Free Cinema’ movement. The compilation consists of EVERY DAY EXCEPT CHRISTMAS, WE ARE THE LAMBETH BOYS, and THE SATURDAY...

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Dance for the Camera 2 (1994 Video)

Director

Tom Cairns

Producer

Sophie Gardiner; Debra Hauer

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale (video only), Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1997 sale: (VHS video): £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Four 15-minute dance programmes made for television, attempting to confront and extend the boundaries of dance on television: ‘Outside In’, choreographed by Victoria Marks with dancers from the CandoCo...

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My Family and Me (1986 Video)

aka: H Oikogenia Mou Kai Ego

Director

Colette Piault

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £24.00

Examines family relationships in the context of migration. Thanassakis, a 13-year-old boy, is staying with his grandparents in their Greek village in Epirus, while his parents are staying with his younger...

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Battle for Music (1943)

Director

Donald Taylor; Len Lye; Ralph Keene; Ralph Bond; John Banting; Dylan Thomas; Charles de Latour

Subject

History; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 186 minutes), £14.99

Dramatised documentary about the trials of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II. The year is 1939. Following the liquidation of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the players form a new...

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Home Front Through Home Movies, The (1998 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 100 min., 1999 sale: £19.99 (inclusive)

Five 20-minute programmes using amateur film footage together with eyewitness accounts to show ways in which ordinary people filmed everyday life in Britain and Germany during the war years 1939-45: 1) The...

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London Can Take It: The British Home Front at War

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £12.00

Seven wartime films looking at the city of London, specifically life during the Blitz. Includes Humphrey Jennings and Harry Watt’s LONDON CAN TAKE IT (1940).

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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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Bridging the Gap: Shift (2011)

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

DVD (Region 0 PAL, 58 minutes), Free

Six new directors and short films on the theme of "Shift" commissioned by Scottish Documentary Institute. NIGHT SHIFT: Anne Wallace once had a dream to help Glasgow’s working women. Soon after she had a...

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How to Be Eccentric: The Selected Films of Richard Massingham (2015)

Director

Richard Massingham

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 170 minutes), £19.99

Contents: Dr Massingham says... Tell Me If It Hurts (1934) | Coughs and Sneezes (1945) | Jet-propelled Germs (1948) | Handkerchief Drill (1949) | Another Case of Poisoning (1949) | The Cure (1950) |...

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