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Library of 20th Century Newsreels, The (1997 Video)

aka: 20th Century Newsreels

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 203 min., 1997 sale: £19.99 (inclusive)

Film footage from British Movietone newsreels of events which made history in the 20th century. Covers a large number of stories world-wide, from the Boer War and Queen Victoria’s funeral through the...

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Visit Dundee

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 67 minutes), £12.99

A collection archive films about the city of Dundee. Imagine it’s war-time Dundee. You are in the audience in Green’s Playhouse for a film show about the city, beginning with a short film, The Opening of...

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Natural Disaster Films 1905-1973 (2005)

aka: Natural Disaster Films - Earthquakes, Floods, Tornados & Hurricanes

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 150 minutes), $19.95

A compilation of footage of earthquakes, floods, tornadoes & hurricanes. Includes: 1936 PITTSBURGH FLOOD (PART II - PART I MISSING) (1936, 2:49, Silent); A TRIP DOWN MARKET STREET BEFORE THE FIRE (1906,...

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Disaster 1 (1997 Video)

Producer

Tony Davies

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to illustrate large-scale disasters of the 20th century. Covers the sinking of the ‘Titanic’, the Tenerife air crash, the mud-slide in Aberfan in South Wales in...

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Igf God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise (2010)

Director

Spike Lee

Subject

American Studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 240 minutes), £15.90

Filmmaker Spike Lee returns to New Orleans, the scene of his post-Katrina documentary WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS (2006). On this occasion, he focuses mainly on the BP disaster, from the...

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Tides of War (1991 Video)

aka: Tide of War

Director

Michael McKinnon

Producer

Michael McKinnon; Malcolm Penny

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2000 sale: £12.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the ecological disaster in the Arabian Gulf resulting from the oil spills and burning oil wells of the conflict in the area that began in August 1990. Follows the progress of the oil slicks along...

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20th Century Disasters (1999 Video)

Subject

Engineering; Geology; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 60 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Footage from British Movietone newsreels and elsewhere. Shows air, road and rail crashes, buildings collapsing, fires, floods, tornadoes and earthquakes. Air crashes include: the Hindenburg explosion,...

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At the Coal Face (2003)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 59 minutes), £17.99

Two films from the 1940s on coal mining - THE CUMBERLAND STORY and RHONDDA AND WYE - combined on one tape.

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Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)

Director

Banksy

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £22.99

The world’s first street art disaster movie, EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP is the groundbreaking film from Banksy - the world’s most famous graffiti artist; a global phenomenon with a fiercely guarded...

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Next of Kin (1942 Film, Video)

Director

Thorold Dickinson

Producer

Michael Balcon

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The most powerful and realistic of all the ‘careless talk’ films. This feature film tells the story of a raid on a submarine pen on the North West coast of France. A well organised German spy ring, much...

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