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  1. Great Britain: Britain’s Noblemen

    Date released
    1938
    Series name
    The March of Time 3rd Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    352183
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: report on the hard times of noblemen due to death duties.

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  2. Death Penalty (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 8 min., 1996 sale: £6.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the extensive use of the death penalty in China and at what crimes can lead to this ultimate sanction.

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  3. Shakespeare and Death (1964 Radio)

    Series
    This Mortal Coil
    Producer
    T. S. Gregory

    Radio broadcast. First in a group of three talks in which H. V. D. Dyson, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, considers Shakespeare’s treatment of death. This episode traces ‘an evolution in...

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  4. Media Screen Roundup - June 2015

    Date
    13 Jul 2015, 12:45
    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. This issue opens with a rather morbid...

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  5. I’m Sorry Your Baby is Dead but I Can’t Tell You Why (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 33 min.

    Several parents with recent experience of cot death are interviewed. They relate how they felt at the time of the discovery and the way they coped immediately following the death. General information about...

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  6. Death Row, One Woman Band (1986 Video)

    Subject
    Law
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 45 min.

    Looks at the death penalty in the USA and describes the work of Marie Deans, who secures the help of attorneys to argue for those on death row, usually with positive results. Includes interviews with inmates...

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  7. Between Life and Death (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Thomas
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 51 min.

    Looks at the near-death experience and the scientific researh that has attempted to explain how people who have technically died can make astonishing recoveries and remember inexplicable encounters or...

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  8. Death by Design (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Jean-Francois Brunet; Peter Friedman
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    Uses microphotography to look at the world of the cell inside the human body, a world where each individual cell is programmed to die. The notion that cell death gives birth to life has major implications...

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  9. Life and Death in Rio (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Vic Lockwood
    Subject
    Development studies; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Rio de Janeiro has the reputation of being the world’s most glamorous city, but nine million people who live there are subject to infectious diseases and malnutrition. Death rates are high and life...

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  10. Alejandro Mamani: A Case Study in Psychological Anthropology (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Alejandro Mamani, an elderly Aymara Indian, is the subject of this ethnographic study of mental illness and the approach of death.

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