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Cabinet in Conflict: The Loan from the Imf (1977 Video)

Director

Roger Graef

Producer

Brian Lapping

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. U-matic. col. 60 min.

A group of eight journalists, taking the roles of Cabinet Ministers, re-create the arguments in the Cabinet in 1976 over the terms of a loan from the International Monetary Fund. In September 1976 Chancellor...

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Chung Kuo (1972)

aka: China

Director

Michelangelo Antonioni

Subject

Film studies; Geography; History; Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 208 minutes), £7.99

In 1972, during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, Michelangelo Antonioni was invited by the People’s Republic of China to direct a documentary about the New China. His eight-week travels with a crew...

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Egypt: Children of the Revolution

Director

May Abdalla

Subject

Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

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

International investigative documentary series. In February 2011, millions of Egyptians came together to bring down President Hosni Mubarak in what became the defining moment of the Arab Spring. This...

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Men Who Filmed for Hitler, The (1983 Video)

Director

Hans-Günther Stark

Producer

Tony Stratton-Smith

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 83 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Stories behind Third Reich newsreel footage, as told by Hitler’s personal cameraman, Walter Frentz, and other film makers working under the Nazi regime. Four hundred of the 1200 cameramen put into the...

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Speeches That Changed the World (2010)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

A collection of famous and notorious speeches beginning with the anti-Semitic ravings of Joseph Goebbels and his exhortations to encourage students to burn thousands of books banned by the Nazis, followed by...

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Days of Hope (4 Parts) (1975 Video)

Director

Ken Loach

Producer

Tony Garnett

Subject

Drama; History

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 95, 100, 80, 135 min.

A dramatised documentary series interpreting British labour history from a socialist angle. After depicting the plight of conscientious objectors in the First World War, and a significant sideways glance at...

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Alan Plater at ITV (2011)

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 355 minutes), £20.41

This anthology celebrates the diversity of Alan Plater’s work for ITV, featuring performances by Helen Mirren, Kenneth Branagh, James Bolam, Alison Steadman, Michael Gambon, Dennis Waterman and Ray Brooks,...

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Not Just a Bad Day: Living with Bipolar Disorder (2010)

Subject

Mental Health and Counselling; Psychiatry

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £40.00

This documentary explores the lives of four people living under the shadow of one of the most commonly misunderstood and diagnosed mental illnesses, bipolar disorder. The young mother, the party boy, the...

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Monetarism and Coal (1986 Video)

Producer

Clare Falkner

Subject

Economics; Politics & government

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Examines the economic theory of monetarism looking at its application to the nationalised coal industry. Contains extracts from a 1976 ‘Newsday’ interview with Professor Milton Friedman. How his ideas on...

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Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974)

Director

Stuart Cooper

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111 minutes), £19.99

This chillingly dark comedy, based on the 1965 stage play by David Halliwell, was filmed in bleak, wintry Oldham in 1974 and has rarely been seen in almost 40 years. Expelled art student Scrawdyke leads his...

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