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Historical Disasters: Black Christmas (2012)

Subject

History

This documentary tells the story of the Pretoria Pit Disaster of 21 December 1910 in which 344 men and boys died, after an explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit, near Bolton, Lancashire. The film...

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R.W. Paul - The Collected Films 1895-1908 (2006)

aka: R.W. Paul - The Complete Surviving Films 1895-1908

Director

Robert W Paul

Subject

Film Studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 148 minutes), £14.99

Robert W Paul is justly celebrated as the leading pioneer of British film and one of the founders of world cinema. This collection of 62 films brings together for the first time the collected output of R W...

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Bells of Chernobyl, The (1986 Film)

Director

R L Sergiyenko

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shot in the Chernobyl region during the months following the nuclear disaster in April 1986. It covers the huge clean-up operation and shows the evacuated village of Pripyat and interviews evacuees. Also...

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Brave Don’t Cry, The (1952)

Director

Philip Leacock

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 179 minutes), £16.33

A reconstruction of a disaster at Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery, Ayrshire, in 1950, dramatises the tense events of the rescue of miners trapped underground after a pit shaft was flooded and nine men were...

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Nuclear War in Britain: Home Front Civil Defence Films (2012)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 284 minutes), £24.99

A compilation of public information films made by the British government between 1951 and 1987, many of which have not been available for public viewing for many years. The DVD includes the following films:...

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Six Films by Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Director

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

DVD

Nikolaus Geyrhalter is one of world cinema’s most renowned and celebrated documentary filmmakers. Famous for his style which draws on calm, carefully framed wide shots with an eye for geometric...

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Hunt for the Doomsday Asteroid (1995 Video)

Producer

Tim Haines

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Discusses the thousands of asteroids orbiting the sun that are on a potential collision course ith earth. A warning of a possible disaster was given when a huge comet the size of Australia smashed into...

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The Good, The Bad (2001)

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 10 minutes), £ 15 per item or £ 100 for the whole set (inclusive)

One of a series of 13 short films about remarkable scientific discoveries by Nobel prizewinners and their colleagues. This film looks at the discovery of radioactivity by the three French Nobel Prizewinners...

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Health and Safety DVD Collection (2010)

Subject

Environmental science; Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £999.00

A collection of ten health and safety films. 1. TAKING LIBERTIES: A FATAL ERROR. In 1989 a British Midland plane crashed into the embankment of the M1 near Kegworth in Leicestershire with the loss of 47...

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Secret, The (1918 Film)

Director

E P Kinsella; Horace Morgan

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

One of the Ministry of Information propaganda trailers that were distributed through commercial newsreel companies and reached a massive audience. This one discloses how to make suet dumplings without...

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