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John Pilger: Documentaries That Changed the World (2007)

Director

John Pilger

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 644 minutes), £12.00

DVD set brings together twelve of John Pilger’s most hard-hitting and inspirational films. Drawing extensively on eye-witness testimony, Pilger has been a foreign correspondent and a front-line war...

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Chinese Schools (2008)

aka: Chinese School

Subject

Education; Geography; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £17.00

Documentary series about the hopes and dreams of a group of children at three schools in the small Chinese town of Xiuning, in rural Anhui. The programmes focus on the lives of a group of families, teachers...

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Science is Fiction/ The Sounds of Science (2007)

Director

Jean Painlevé

Subject

Biology; Film studies; Music; Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £24.99

Before David Attenborough and Jacques Cousteau - there was Jean Painlevé, Poetic pioneer of science films, Painlevé explored a twilight realm of vampire bats, seahorses, octopi, and liquid crystals. In...

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Whose Town is It Anyway? (8 Parts) (1984 Video)

Director

Tony Freeth

Producer

Michael Jackson

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 30 min.

A series of eight programmes focusing on the economic and political crises facing British towns and cities and looking at how local councils, voluntary groups and the communities most affected struggle to...

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Birth of Impressionism, The (2002)

Director

Alain Jaubert

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 min), £19.99

Three films from the Palettes series devoted to great works in painting history. Thanks to recent developments in video animation technique, secrets of these images are revealed like thrilling adventures of...

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Heroes: The Films of John Pilger 1970 - 2007 (2008)

Subject

History; Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 2538 minutes), £30.00

"HEROES..." is the first, definitive collection of ground-breaking documentaries from John Pilger’s career as a world renowned film-maker, author and investigative journalist. The title, Heroes, is taken...

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Early Russian Cinema (1991 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, 10 videocassettes. VHS. b&w. 45, 55, 58, 55, 45, 94, 95, 104, 100, 72 min., 1995 sale: £165.00 (+p&p) set

An anthology in ten volumes of Russian filmmaking from the early years of the 20th century. The films were rediscoved at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in 1989. This selection was made by Ian Christie...

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Century of the City Box Set (2011)

Director

Marije Meerman; Bregtje van der Haak; Rob Schröder

Subject

Architecture; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 205 minutes), 25.95 euros

The four DVDs in this box set are part of the cross-media festival Centuries of the City that the VPRO held in association with the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam in September/October 2009 on...

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Voices of History 1 (2004)

Subject

History; Media studies; Politics & government; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 145 minutes), £16.00

This two-CD set features historic recordings from the Sound Archive of some of the most famous and influential people active from the early days of sound recording to the middle of the 20th century. Forty...

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