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Testimony (1998 Video)

Director

Ron Orders

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Moved by Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso’s story of 34 years in prison, singer Annie Lennox tells his story in a filmed conversation.

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Double Sentence (1973 Film)

Director

Christine Fox

Subject

Law; Social welfare

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Examines the situation of a young wife whose husband is sent to prison and the treatment she receives from society.

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Beautiful Sentence (2011)

Director

Suzanne Cohen

Subject

Literature; Social Studies

Female prisoners experience the liberating effect of creative writing with the help of inspirational poet Leah Thorn, writer-in-residence at HMP Bronzefield, a high security women’s prison in Middlesex....

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Gruvberget: Sweden’s Revolutionary Prison (1972 Film)

Subject

Law; Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Looks at a correctional institution, the aim of which is to rehabilitate prisoners. The inmates lead normal family lives and study courses designed to help them in the outside world.

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Carry on Escaping (Video)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1995 sale: £55.00 (inclusive)

How five |RA prisoners escaped from Whitemoor - supposedly Britain’s most secure prison.

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Burma Vj (2010)

Director

Anders Ostergaard

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £9.99

A remarkable documentary that tells the story of the Burmese photojournalists who secretly videotaped events during the Buddhist monks’ September 2007 uprising against the military regime, and who risk...

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Real Little Dorrit, The: Charles Dickens and Debtors Prisons

David Thomas examines the reality behind Charles Dickens’ fiction, using records from the National Archives as he explains what Victorian debtors’ prisons were really like and how accurate Dickens’...

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Little Dorrit (2008)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 480 minutes), £34.99

A television version of the novel by Charles Dickens adapted into fourteen episodes by Andrew Davies. When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, his curiosity is piqued by the presence...

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Malcolm X: El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (1991 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b/w. 60 min., 1997 sale: £19.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Traces the life of Malcolm X, from Harlem street hustler and prison inmate to militant Muslim convert, to self-made world leader who, before his suspicious death in 1965, found himself increasingly at odds...

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Nick Broomfield: His Big White Self Revisited (2006)

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

Nick Broomfield revists the South African neo-Nazi Eugene Terreblanche, newly released from prison for the reign of terror his AWB movement brought to South Africa in trying to uphold apartheid and oppose...

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