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March, The (2013)

Director

John Akomfrah

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.99

John Akomfrah’s film tells the story of the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a watershed moment for the American civil rights movement which brought together a coalition of civil...

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Human value conference (1981)

Genre

Interview; News report; Vox pop

Report on the first international conference on Human Value. Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson and disabled protesters outside the conference comment. Female reporter not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Victory’s Review of the Year 1981 (1982)

1- Royal Wedding. 2- American hostages returned. Arrest of Peter Sutcliffe. Murder of parents by Andrew Alder near Chichester. 3- Cutbacks at Portsmouth Dockyard, 4 thousand jobs lost [60 percent of work...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Media Screen Roundup - April 2014

Date

9 May 2014, 16:04

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. A bit of a testosterone feel to this...

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Human Rights (2 Parts) (1986 Multimedia)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, 70 slides. col.

Part 1 deals with civil and political rights. Part 2 covers economic, social and cultural rights. Discusses the 1948 United Nations Charter of Human Rights and perennial issues such as freedom from hunger...

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Political repression in China (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with an Amnesty International spokesman about political repression in China. Male speaker and interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

King: Montgomery to Memphis (1970 Film, Video)

aka: Montgomery to Memphis

Director

Ely Landau

Producer

Richard Kaplan; Ely Landau

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £50.00

Documents the activities of Dr Martin Luther King Jr in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s and discusses his philosophy of non-violence. Newsreel and television footage recall the civil rights...

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Legacy 3 of a Dream (1975 Film)

Director

R Kaplan

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Takes a retrospective look at aspects of the civil rights movement in the USA in the 1960s. The second part of the film shows the growing political power of the black community personified by Congressman...

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Salute (2008)

Director

Matt Norman

Subject

Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

SALUTE tells the story of Peter Norman, the Australian athlete, who stood on the podium with African-American runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos, in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, during the award...

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Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (2015)

Director

Pratibha Parmar

Subject

History; Literature; Social Studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 84 minutes), $395

Feature film documentary. Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple. Her early life unfolded in the midst of...

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