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  1. Death (1992)

    Subject
    Medical sciences; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL)

    Reviews current knowledge about the biology of the causes of death, including the normal ageing process. Also discusses the legal and social response to death and how society’s institutions investigate and...

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Visions of Hope: The Near Death Experience (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 40 minutes), £20.00 (C, M))

    Explores the individual experiences of six people who have been clinically certified as dead. Each person underwent an extraordinary visionary experience which was to transform their life and remove the fear...

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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. Cot Death: A Special Kind of Grief (1992 Video)

    Director
    Ian Kelso
    Producer
    Ian Kelso
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 19 min., 1996 sale: £35.00 (inclusive)

    A interview with parents who have lost a child through cot death. It highlights the special circumstances and grief involved, and appeals to health professional to be more sympathetic in their handling of...

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  9. Cot Death (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Linda McDougall
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min., 2000 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Professor Peter Fleming, a leading British cot death scientist, has been working on the largest-ever study into cot death - the government’s Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths In Infancy....

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  10. Victorian Ways of Death (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Nick Levinson
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Visits cemeteries in Manchester, London and the Buckinghamshire countryside, to point out the evidence they provide of Victorian attitudes to death and burial. An examination of memorials, including some in...

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