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  1. People’s Century (Parts 13-15) (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Jennifer Clayton; Charles Furneaux; Bill Treharne Jones
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 165 min.

    A history of 20th century in 26 parts as seen from the point of view of ordinary people who have lived through the events. Includes interviews and extensive archive footage. 13 (producer: Jennifer Clayton):...

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  2. Holidays by the Sea (1987 Video)

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

    Charts the uneven development of Blackpool through the 19th century, from a small genteel town into the first and largest resort for the industrial working class. With the advent of railway came day...

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  3. Children of Chernobyl (1991 Video)

    Director
    Clive Gordon
    Producer
    Clive Gordon
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 49 minutes), £33.93

    One of the first documentaries to assess the full impact of the explosion at the Chernobyl power station. Mothers and doctors speak out about the grim reality of life five years after the world’s worst...

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  4. Work = Force X Distance (1989 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1998 sale: £28.75 (+VAT +p&p)

    Uses demonstrations, graphics and illustrative footage to explain the formula: work = force x distance. Shows: work to waste energy (stopping a car by various means); forces in stopping: W=FS becomes F=W/S...

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  5. Major Disasters (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering; Geology; History
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 58 min.

    Footage from British Movietone newsreels. Shows man-made disasters featuring plane, train, boat and helicopter crashes, ships sinking and bridges collapsing. Natural disasters covered include floods,...

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  6. Chernobyl Sarcophagus (1996 Video)

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

    Ten years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion in the Ukraine, survivors of the mission to enter the plant in 1991 explain how things have changed, but the optomistic mood of the workforce...

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  7. To Engineer is Human1 (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Alex Nisbett
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows how engineeering science is subject to human limitations. Professor Henry Petroski contends that structures can fail in ways that have been dismissed as virtually impossible. Uses footage of some of...

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  8. Vanished Brilliance (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Through recent observations made by radio telescopes scientists are now beginning to understand the origin of the universe, which had a hot and explosive beginning. As a result galaxies were formed during...

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  9. 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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  10. Belmonte (2003)

    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), 19.99

    This is a revised (1991) modern ballet production of Belmonte (originally performed in 1988), by the Gelabert/Azzopardi Dance Company. It explores the theme of death in bull-fighting, and became a landmark...

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