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  1. Mixed Manners

    Date released
    6 Nov 1930
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    492
    NoS ID
    332573
    Story no
    6 / 6

    NoS Summary - Old fashioned minuet contrasted with a wild Charleston. NoS synopsis: "Once upon a time the dancing world was ruled by the stately minuet, and girls were coy and swains gallant..." M/S of group...

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  2. Life and Death Row (2014)

    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

    Life and Death Row is a striking three part series telling the story of capital punishment through the eyes of the young people whose lives have been shaped by it. Going inside prison walls and meeting...

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  3. Welcome to Death Row (2008)

    Subject
    Business studies; Music; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £12.99

    Music label Death Row Records has, since its inception in the early ‘90s, become synonymous with American hip-hop culture. Formed by ex-bodyguard Suge Knight, the label once boasted an impressive roster of...

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  4. 14 Days in May (1987 Video)

    aka: Fourteen Days in May

    Director
    Paul Harmann
    Producer
    Paul Harmann
    Subject
    Law
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., 1999 sale: £6.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Records the last 14 days in the life of death row inmate Edward Earl Johnson, up until 15 minutes prior to his execution in May 1987. Shows how a scheduled execution affects prisoners, prison personnel and...

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  5. Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1993 Video)

    Director
    Nicholas Broomfield
    Producer
    Nicholas Broomfield; Rita Oord
    Subject
    Media studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 85 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    A documentary about Aileen Wuornos, claimed to be the world’s first convicted female serial killer, who is currently on Death Row in the Florida State Penitentiary. It raises the question of whether the...

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  6. Smallpox on Death Row (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Bettina Lerner
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Although officially eradicated as a disease, the last samples of the smallpox virus, now held in the two top security laboratories in the USA and Siberia, are to be destroyed. But a debate has erupted over...

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  7. Chimps on Death Row (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Sam Roberts
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the fate of chimpanzees used for scientific experiments, now no longer needed. In the past, they were used to develop aircraft ejection seats, undergo space travel experiments, and test vaccines...

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  8. Thin Blue Line, The (1988)

    Director
    Errol Morris
    Producer
    Mark Lipson
    Subject
    Film studies; Law
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £15.99

    While researching another project, filmmaker Errol Morris became fascinated by the case of Randall Dale Adams, a man on death row for the murder of a policeman in 1976. Convinced of his innocence, Morris...

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  9. Death of a Princess (1981 Video)

    Director
    Antony Thomas
    Producer
    Martin McKeand; Antony Thomas
    Subject
    Law
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 120 min.

    Ostensibly about the execution for adultery in 1977 of the Saudi Princess Mis’ahl, but the film became the subject of a major diplomatic row between Britain and Soudi Arabia. Its importance lies both in...

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