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Sneyd Pit Disaster

Producer

Ray Johnson

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

This documentary is dedicated to the memory of the 57 men and boys who lost their lives on New Year’s Day, 1942. The explosion at Sneyd is put into the context of wartime, explained by experts at Apedale...

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Address, The (2014)

Director

Ken Burns

Subject

Education; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

Ken Burns’ documentary interweaves the history of the Gettysburg Address with a chronicle about a special school in the small New England town of Putney, Vermont. Each year, fifty students, boys from the...

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Open Road, The (2007)

Director

Claude Friese-Greene

Subject

Film studies; Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £11.99

In the summer of 1924 Claude Friese-Greene, a pioneer of colour cinematography, recorded life on the road between Land’s End and John O’Groats. This travelogue was conceived as a series of 26 shorts to...

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Badlands (1993 Video)

Producer

Marc Sigsworth

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Britain’s industrial heritage has left a legacy of contaminated, some of it poisonours. In 1990 the government announced proposals to register all such land, but those with a stake in development and the...

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Steel: A Century of Steelmaking on Film (2013)

Director

Jack Cardiff; Jenny Woodley

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 416 minutes), £24.99

Steel provides the backbone of Britain’s industry and society. It was a driving force behind the second Industrial Revolution and shaped many regions of the UK. In its heyday over 450,000 people were...

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Three by Rambert (2002)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 min), £19.99

Three dances recorded at The Studio in Denmark Intimate Pages: The musical and thematic basis for choreographer Christopher Bruce’s ballet "Intimate Pages" was the String Quartet No. 2 by the Czech...

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Amazing Lives: Coma Miracle (2007)

aka: My Shocking Story: My Coma Miracle

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £20.00

Part of the AMAZING LIVES series of a groundbreaking medical documentaries,featuring the stories of people living with rare conditions and life-threatening illnesses. Each story involves cutting-edge new...

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They Came to a City (1944)

Director

Basil Dearden

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (78 minutes), £14.99

Nine disparate Britons are transported to a mysterious city where, according to their class and disposition, they find themselves either in an earthly paradise of peace and equality or a hell starved of...

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England’s Oldest Borough (1994 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Preview, 4 videocassettes. VHS. col. 837 min.

The building of a new downstream bridge in Barnstaple, Devon, changes the landscape of one of the oldest boroughs in England. Interviews with owners of the town’s family businesses describe how these...

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Dylan Thomas: The War Films Anthology (2006)

Subject

Film Studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 106 minutes), £15.99

The world-renowned poet Dylan Thomas made a little-known but valuable contribution to Britain’s war effort scripting powerful propaganda films for the Ministry of Information. This anthology collects...

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