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Coal Face (1935 Video)

Director

Alberto Cavalcanti

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Hire (film - BFI), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 10 min.

Coalmining in Britain in the 1930s - conditions and state of the industry in the economy at that time. Set to verse by W H Auden, with music by Benjamin Britten.

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Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930 - 1950 (2008)

Director

Paul Rotha; Arthur Elton; Basil Wright; Humphrey Jennings

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 720 minutes), £34.99

A collection of 40 films from the British documentary movement during its period of greatest influence. These films capture the spirit and strength, concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before,...

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They Also Serve (1940 Film)

Director

Ruby Grierson

Producer

John Taylor

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A tribute to the British housewife. Set in the format of a day in the life of a ‘typical’ household, shows how the housewife/mother has in her own way contributed much to the war effort. Unlike many of...

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Britain in the Thirties (1939 Video)

aka: British Avant-Garde: The Thirties

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. silent/sound. 177 min., 2000 sale: £19.99 (inclusive)

A compilation of short British avant-garde films from the 1930s - a decade marked by both the birth of British realism, and a surrealist influence from Europe.

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Home Front Britain with Jim Carter (2011)

Director

Humphrey Jennings; Ruby Grierson; Jack Lee; Brian Desmond Hurst

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 270 minutes), £19.99

The six-part documentary series, Home Front Britain With Jim Carter, looks at the British home front during World War II. Presented by British actor Jim Carter, the series explores the archives of British...

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Dreamcatcher (2015)

Director

Kim Longinotto

Subject

Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £9.99

DREAMCATCHER profiles activist, and former prostitute, Brenda Myers-Powell and looks at the hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking through the eyes of one of its survivors, A former teenage...

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Night Mail/West Highland (2004)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 55 minutes), £19.99

A compilation of two classic films on steam trains

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From the Sea to the Land Beyond (2013)

Director

Penny Woolcock

Producer

Mark Atkin

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 73 minutes), £19.99

Using footage taking from four main sources at the British Film Institute - the Mitchell and Kenyon collection; Topical Budget newsreels; public information films from the COI collection and travelogues from...

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30s Britain Volume 2: North Sea (2006)

Director

John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 86 minutes), £12.99

Collection of films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘North Sea’ (1938) directed by Harry Watt. An Aberdeen trawler in trouble gets assistance from Wick coastguard radio station, operated by the GPO. The first...

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Young in Heart (2009)

Subject

Engineering; Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

A compilation of five archive films from the Films of Scotland Collection on aspects of industrial development. RIVERS AT WORK (1958, 20 mins) - The story of the electrification of the Highlands by the...

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