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  1. Cuba Si! (4 Parts) (1962 Film)

    Director
    James Hill
    Producer
    Tim Hewat
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Part 4: A study of Fidel Castro, his relations with the Communist bloc, and the possible effects on Latin America of the revolution as viewed at the time.

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  2. One Way to Change the World (1968 Film)

    Producer
    Brian Moser
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A look at the Cuban way of life in 1968. Examines the effects of Castro’s regime on the country, the economy and the people.

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  3. Cuban Missile Crisis, The (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Jeremy Bennett
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) pair

    Broadcast on BBC2 from 7/10/92.

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  4. 638 Ways to Kill Castro (2007)

    Director
    Dollan Cannell
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 140 minutes), £17.99

    Poison pens, lethal noxious gases, deadly model aircraft, toxic cigars, baseball grenades and exploding molluscs - just a sample of the hilariously outlandish 638 plots to kill the charismatic Cuban...

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  5. Heroes or Villains (1999 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 2 x 80 min., 1999 sale: £17.99 (inclusive) each

    Twenty-minute programmes using contemporary news and archive film from ITN, witnesses to the protagonists’ lives and the voices of commentators and historians to build up potraits of eight influential...

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  6. Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War (2012)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.99

    On October 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy informed the world that the Soviet Union was building secret missile bases on the island of Cuba, 90 miles off the shores of Florida. The events of the next 13...

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  7. Utopia 1 (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Lucy Carter
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to explore 20th-century ideologies. Shows Disneyland, Fidel Castro’s revolutionised Cuba, Hitler’s dream for Germany. the growth of communism in the USSR, Iran...

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  8. 12 Days to Save the World (1993 Video)

    Director
    Frank Stapleton
    Producer
    Catherine Tiernan
    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Economist Marcus Arruda analyses the UN Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The Cuban president Fidel Castro warned that man is in danger of disappearing because of the fast and progressive...

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  9. Politics of Violence (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Lucy Carter
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to illustrate political violence in the 20th century. Looks at Saddam Hussain in Iraq, the ‘Troubles’ in Ireland, Joseph Stalin in Russia, Adolf Hitler in Nazi...

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  10. General Idi Amin Dada (Autoportrait) (2007)

    Director
    Barbet Schroeder
    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

    A rare chance to see the real Idi Amin in this extraordinary documentary made with the full support and participation of the dictator himself. Through his anti-Semitic rages, fetish for military power, and...

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