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  1. Street Fights Pave Way in Havana for Cuban Revolution

    Date released
    21 Aug 1933
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    220
    NoS ID
    004338
    Story no
    6 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Street Fights in Havana. DESCRIPTION: Unrest ending in flight of ex-President Machado is seen in first pictures. SHOTLIST: Aerials of Havana including shots of Palace. Military forces...

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  2. Cuba and the Cold War Collection: From Revolution to Missile Crisis (2009)

    Subject
    History

    At the height of the Cold War, on 1 January 1959, a guerrilla army led by Fidel Castro defeated the US-backed Batista government. Attempts by the US government to undermine Castro’s new administration,...

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  3. New additions to the Moving Image Gateway

    Date
    13 Mar 2015, 08:36
    Author
    Andrew Ormsby
    Post Type
    Post

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,650 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or...

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  4. Cuban Missile Crisis, The (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Jeremy Bennett
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) pair

    Broadcast on BBC2 from 7/10/92.

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  5. Compay Segundo

    Subject
    HISTORY & POLITICS CATALOGUES; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 min), £17.99

    Compay Segunda was filmed, in his nineties, singing his Cuban songs as he has done in Havana since the 1920s. His songs tell of promises of a brave new world following the revolution and life in Cuba before...

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  6. I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba) / Siberian Mammoth (2007)

    aka: Soy Cuba

    Director
    Mikhail Kalatozov; Vicente Farraz
    Subject
    Film studies; Politics & government; Spanish studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 230 minutes), £8.99

    A 2-disc set. Disc 1 : I AM CUBA, partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society. Moving from city to country...

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  7. World Revolutions for Students, Series (7 Parts) (2005)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 23 minutes each), £158 (set) £32.00 (each)

    This series of 7 programmes examines the underlying causes and dramatic effects associated with revolutions throughout world history. It explores the revolutionary philosophies and strategies of world...

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  8. Forbidden Voices: How to Start a Revolution with a Computer (2013)

    Director
    Miller Freeman plc
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 96 minutes), $395.00

    Documentary about three young women who use social media to document, denounce and combat violations of human rights and free speech in their countries. Yoani Sánchez, Zeng Jinyan and Farnaz Seifi are...

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  9. Review of 1933 (Trick Title)

    Date released
    28 Dec 1933
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    296
    NoS ID
    033019
    Story no
    3 / 3

    SHOTLIST: Review of 1933: trick title of the world revolving. Cuba, Havana: Scenes of Cuban revolution: SV field gun fixing shells and various shots of shells exploding and hitting hotel. Trick shot of world...

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  10. Great Events of the 20th Century (1999 Video)

    aka: Greatest Events of the 20th Century, The

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    DVD

    A collection of newsfilm covering 101 newsworthy events of the 20th century. Items are: 1) Opening credits; 2) Queen Victoria’s funeral; 3) Wright brothers’ first flight; 4) Suffragette dies under...

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