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Fighting to Fish / Un Siecle de Lutte (2004)

Director

Charles Menzies

Subject

Languages; Social sciences

Adapted from Dr. Charles Menzie’s book ‘Red Flags and Lace Coiffes’, this film uses animated archival images to tell the turbulent history of industrialisation and resistance over the last century in...

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Plenty (1985 Video)

Director

Fred Schepisi

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 119 min.

Feature film adapted by David Hare from his stage play in which a courageous and impulsive young Englishwoman returns home after fighting in the French Resistance to encounter the apathy of post-war England.

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Sweet France (1992 Video)

Director

Mogniss H Abdallah; Ken Fero

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., £20.00 (hire) £30.00 (sale)

Traces the experiences of the Arab community in France from the Algerian Revolution to the uprisings by Arab youg across the country in recent years. Although unemployment is a national concern, people...

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Secrets of War (2011)

Director

Alan Beattie; Charles Proser

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1300 minutes), £18.00

This award-winning series explores lesser-known aspects of the twentieth century’s major conflicts, offering insights into the hidden world of covert operations. Based on information that had been only...

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Samuel Beckett: As the Story was Told (1996)

Director

Seán Ó Mórdha

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £195.00

Biography of dramatist Samuel Beckett. Part 1 covers his formative years, his ill-fated love affair with his first cousin, the death of his father, his service with the French Resistance. Beckett had settled...

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Four Films After Shoah (1985)

Director

Claude Lanzmann

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 439 minutes), £24.99

Claude Lanzmann’s follow-ups to his landmark SHOAH, each of the four films explores in further depth specific aspects and events of the Nazis’ extermination programme. A VISITOR FROM THE LIVING (1997)...

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Frank Capra’s Why we Fight (1942)

Director

Frank Capra

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 403 minutes), £24.99

Forceful propaganda on the aims of democracy contrasted with fascism. Liberties are taken with the material but a good example of the best resources of Hollywood directed towards propaganda and patriotic...

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World Revolutions for Students, Series (7 Parts) (2005)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 23 minutes each), £158 (set) £32.00 (each)

This series of 7 programmes examines the underlying causes and dramatic effects associated with revolutions throughout world history. It explores the revolutionary philosophies and strategies of world...

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Nobel’s Greatest Hits: Science (2001)

aka: Understand Science: Nobel’s Greatest Hits Explained

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £15.99

Five 10-minute programmes from the series NOBEL’S GREATEST HITS on topics relating to advances in science and understanding that have brought us to the brink of controlling and destroying our world .

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