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  1. Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China, A, Or, Surface is Illustion but So is Depth (1988 Video)

    Director
    Philip Haas
    Producer
    Philip Haas; David Hockney
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 47 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    David Hockney takes the viewer on a journey along a richly detailed 72ft-long 17th-century Chinese scroll tracing the Emperor Kangxi’s grand tour of his southern domains. Hockney shows how the perspective...

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  2. First Emperor of China, The (1994 Multimedia)

    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    Documents the finding of an entire army of 7000 pottery soldiers in Xian, China, guarding the tomb of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang Di (221-206 BC), who succeeded in unifying China and completing...

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  3. Caligula with Mary Beard (2013)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £12.99

    Professor Mary Beard presents this historical documentary about Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus: more commonly known as Caligula. After only four years in power Caligula was...

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  4. First Emperor, The: China’s Terracotta Army (2007)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 40 minutes), £15.99

    Made for the British Museum to accompany the exhibition of Chinese terracotta figures.Based on th4e latest research and including location photography at key sites in China, this film sheds new light on the...

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  5. First Emperor of China, The (1989 Video)

    Director
    Tony Ianzelo; Lui Hao Xue
    Producer
    Pan Han Ci; Barrie Howells
    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 42 minutes), £12.99

    Historical drama chronicling the life of Qin Shihuang, the founder and first emperor of China. Includes the first documentary footage of Qin’s life-sized terra cotta army, constructed for his tomb some...

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  6. First Emperor of China, The (2006)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £16.99

    Qin Shihuang was the First Emperor of China. He not only gave China its name but is responsible for founding the longest enduring nation state in the world. This programme chronicles the period of Qin...

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  7. Hirohito: Behind the Myth (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Anthony Geffen
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Journalist Edward Behr traces the life of Emperor Hirohito of Japan from a traumatic childhood to remote god-emperor and looks at how a skilled public relations operation turned one of the world’s most...

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  8. First Emperor, The: The Man Who Made China (2007)

    Director
    Nic Young
    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £17.99

    Combining re-enactments, expert commentary, and impressive graphic re-creations, Discovery Channel’s THE FIRST EMPEROR: THE MAN WHO MADE CHINA traces the ingenious and brutal rise of Qin Shi Huang, the...

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  9. Hirohito Documentaries (2007)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 120 minutes), $9.99

    Three documentaries on Emperor Hirohito who ruled Japan from December 25, 1926 until his death in 1989. His reign was the longest of any historical Japanese emperor, and he oversaw many significant changes...

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  10. Coi Collection: Vol 7: The Queen on Tour (2012)

    Subject
    Geography; History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 234 minutes), £19.99

    To coincide with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, this seventh compilation of films made by the Central Office of Information (COI) presents colour footage of the Queen and the Royal Family travelling the...

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