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  1. Bacillus Typhosus (Typhoid and Cholera Bacilli)

    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences

    This film illustrates the movement and agglutination of typhoid (2 mins 30 secs) and then cholera bacilli (2 mins 30 secs). Probably one of the earliest surviving film records of bacteriological research....

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  2. Knowledge is - A Short Film About Opening Up Access to Archives (2010)

    Director
    Michelle Pauli; Spiro Kyriacou
    Subject
    Film studies; Media studies

    A short film that makes the case for the opening up of film and sound archives, produced for the JISC Film and Sound Think Tank. Featuring students from Kingsway College alongside experts from top UK...

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  3. Collectivisation of Soviet Agriculture, The (1995)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 46 minutes), £60.00

    The film uses the substantial documentary film studies on the collectivisation in parts of European Russia by Ilya Kopalin between 1929 and 1931, including the first experimental sound documentary on the...

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  4. Reel Histories: The Film and Oral History Collections of the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge (2012)

    Subject
    Film studies; History

    Talk given by Dr Kevin Greenbank at the Royal Asiatic Society, South London, illustrated with film clips.

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  5. Cinema in the 21st Century, The: Art-Form or a Form of Life? (2012)

    Subject
    Film studies; Media studies

    The subject of Elsaesser’s lecture is the question of whether it makes sense to consider the cinema under a somewhat different aspect from the approaches that have dominated discussion in the first...

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  6. Trapped Inside the Wrong Body (1978)

    Subject
    Psychology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 26 minutes), £25.00

    1978 film about transsexuality. The participants discuss their transgender identity and the difficulties they have faced. The film also features footage of a class for men who are learning to live and behave...

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  7. Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940)

    Director
    D. I. Yashin
    Subject
    Biology; Science

    Controviersial Soviet medical film showing Dr Sergei S. Bryukhonenko using mechanical resuscitation techniques to induce clinical death in a dog which is then revived. Part of the film shows a seemingly...

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  8. Penelope (2011)

    Director
    Ben Ferris
    Subject
    Classical studies; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 80 minutes), £90.00

    A lyrical treatment of Homer’s tale of Penelope, depicting her psychological struggle as she waits twenty years for her husband to return from the Trojan War. It draws on the long-take filmmaking style of...

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  9. Idea of Freedom, The (1972)

    Director
    Michael Chanan
    Producer
    Noel Chanan
    Subject
    Philosophy
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Iris Murdoch and David Pears discuss ethics, freedom and determinism, and Freud.* (60 minutes)

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  10. Acceptable Levels (1984)

    Director
    John Davies
    Subject
    Film studies; Media studies

    A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to the family, has been hit by a stray plastic bullet fired by a...

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