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Haig: The Unknown Soldier (1996 Video)

aka: Unknown Soldier, The

Producer

Helen Bettinson

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min. Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive) (retail) 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) (BBC)

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Oh! What A Lovely War

Date

28 May 2014, 13:26

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Joan Littlewood’s stage production Oh! What a Lovely War has long been a favourite with students and teachers. Long unavailable on home video, Richard Attenborough’s 1968 film adaptation in now out on as...

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Unknown Soldier, The (1996 Video)

aka: Haig: The Unknown Soldier

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1998 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

On the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, reappraises the character and role of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig in the light of new historical evidence. Looks at the battles he fought, and some of...

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Great Generals of the 20th Century, The (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

Portraits of 20th-century military figures: Eisenhower, Haig, Montgomery, Patton, Rommel, Schwarzkopf, Sharon and others, with 15 generals discussed in depth and 45 additional biographies.

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Foetal Attraction (1995 Video)

Producer

Teresa Hunt

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Investigates a radical new theory on pregnancy and its complications, advanced by David Haig, and Australian biology, suggesting that the father’s genes are responsible for many of the illnesses and...

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El Salvador: Another Vietnam (1981 Video)

Director

Glenn Silber; Tete Vasconcellos

Producer

Glenn Silber; Tete Vasconcellos

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 50 min.

Investigates the origins of the civil war in El Salvador and the involvement, historical and contemporary, of the USA. For fifty years, El Salvador was ruled by an oligarchy supported and effectively...

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Artificial Life: The Tufts Symposium (1997 Multimedia)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

CD-ROM

Covers key issues discusses in the Artificial Intelligence and Darwinism Symposium held at Tufts University in March 1995, chaired by Professor Daniel Dennett. Examines how the study of the way in which...

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Western Front, The (1999 Video)

Director

Steven Clarke; Keith Sheather

Producer

Mark Fielder

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col/b&w. 180 min., 2000 sale: £17.99 (inclusive)

Series in which military historian Richard Holmes examines how World War 1 was fought in trenches, forts and bunkers, with the aim of highlighting the contrasts on the battlefields where ‘ancient ideas of...

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Talking Heads (Complete) (1988)

Director

Alan Bennett; Stuart Burge; Giles Foster; Tristram Powell

Producer

Innes Lloyd

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 428 minutes), £24.99

Twelve short monologues written by Alan Bennett. 1) A CHIP IN THE SUGAR (dir. Stuart Burge): Alan Bennett as a middle-aged man who lives with his mother, and finds her taking up with an old flame; 2) A CREAM...

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Great War, The, Series (1964 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £ 99

A definitive history of the 1914-1918 war, narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave and employing the voice skills of other leading actors including Sir Ralph Richardson (as Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig) and...

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