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Christopher’s Movie Matinée: Haphazard Adventures in Flower Power Cinema (1968)

Director

Mort Ransen

Subject

History; Social Studies

In 1968, in Yorkville (Toronto), the NFB provided a group of hippies with cameras, film and a few NFB film crew members so they could make a film illustrating their lives and their world. The footage they...

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Cracking the Maya Code (2008)

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.95

This is a look back at how a handful of pioneers deciphered the intricate system of hieroglyphs developed by the Maya. This one-hour program is divided into five chapters for online viewing: The Forgotten...

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Tribute to the World of Myth, A: Ovid and Holkham Hall (2010)

Subject

Art; Classical studies

How do the themes of classical mythology come to be refashioned through the ages? Holkham Hall in Norfolk, England, is the estate of an 18th century gentleman, Thomas Coke - a scholar of epic classical...

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Mathematics and Culture (2015)

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Mathematics

Judith Grabiner describes how the 19th century saw radical change, producing new ideas of space, destroying the unchallenging authority of mathematics, revolutionising art, making relativity possible and...

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Erasing Memory: The Cultural Destruction of Iraq (2006)

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 28 minutes), £19.95

Part of a 13-part series entitled SHOCKING AND AWFUL, produced by independent video activists and distributed in the US on Free Speech TV and community access channels. The series addresses the implications...

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High Gothic to Hi-Tech: A Short History of British Architecture (1997)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 27 minutes), £65.00

The architecture of our towns and cities can, at first sight, seem a bewildering jigsaw puzzle of different styles from different ages. This film explains the evolution and development of British...

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Great Depression, The (1977)

Director

P Stead

Producer

Harley Jones

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £60.00

Examines the slump of the 1930s and its social consequences, within the context of general political and cultural change. Examines the Depression both as a national and international phenomenon: its impact...

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History of History (2010)

Subject

History

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the writing of history has changed over time, from ancient epics to medieval hagiographies and modern deconstructions. In the 6th century AD, the bishop of Tours began his...

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Our Hitler: A Film from Germany (2007)

aka: Hitler: Ein Film aus Deutschland and Hitler: A Film from Germany

Director

Hans Jürgen Syberberg

Subject

Drama; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 450 minutes), $79.95

"The most extraordinary film I have ever seen," says Susan Sontag of director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg’s epic nightmare rumination on Adolf Hitler, the cultural mechanisms underlying his mythic rise, and the...

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Being British (2010)

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

Amid growing concern about cultural division in the UK and the sense of national pride being lost, the British Government has encouraged schools to investigate diversity in the UK and develop an awareness of...

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