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14 Days in May (1987 Video)

aka: Fourteen Days in May

Director

Paul Harmann

Producer

Paul Harmann

Subject

Law

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., 1999 sale: £6.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Records the last 14 days in the life of death row inmate Edward Earl Johnson, up until 15 minutes prior to his execution in May 1987. Shows how a scheduled execution affects prisoners, prison personnel and...

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Sudan: A Nation Scarred (1995 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 31 min., 1999 sale: £6.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

An account of human rights violations perpetrated both by government forces and the various factions of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army. Includes testimonies from victims of human rights abuses, some of...

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Diary of a Maasai Village, The (5 Parts) (1984 Video)

Producer

Melissa Llewellyn-Davies

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 50 min.

How the Maasai live today. The programmes are structured as a film diary of a seven-week visit to a single village, with each part covering a period of a week to ten days following several events.

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Cathedrals of Culture (2014)

Director

Wim Wenders; Michael Glawogger; Karim Ainouz; Michael Madsen; Robert Redford

Subject

Architecture; Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 165 minutes), £11.34

Six acclaimed filmmakers, including Robert Redford, Michael Glawogger and Michael Madsen, each explore the architecture and history of six iconic buildings; the Berlin Philharmonic, the National Library of...

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Black Sheep of Whitehall, The (1984 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 27 min.

On 23rd March, 1984, a young British civil servant was sentenced to six months in prison for disclosing secrets to a daily newspaper. She maintained that revealing the documents, which dealt with the arrival...

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Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner and Other Poems

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 80 mins approx), £10.00

Tapes in the Critical Archive series are are designed for those who have read the relevant text and who have it in front of them; the poetry tapes take "close reading" as their method. Aimed primarily at...

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Glimmer of Hope, A (1997)

Director

Charles Konowal

Producer

Joe MacDonald

Subject

Psychology; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 53 minutes), £29.00

In an effort to come to terms with their loss and grief following their daughter’s murder, Don and Mary Streufert and their other daughter Emily arrange to meet the men who committed the crime, now in...

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Call Me Kuchu (2013)

Director

Katherine Fairfax Wright; Malika Zouhali-Worrall

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £9.99

David Kato, Uganda’s first openly gay man, is one of the few who dare to publicly protest state-sanctioned homophobia. A new ‘Anti-Homosexuality Bill’ proposes death for HIV-positive gay men, and...

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Is He My Brother?

Subject

History; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 28 minutes), £10.99

This film is about two Kenyans - one black, one white. Stanley Kinga was in the Mau Mau, a secret society formed to liberate the country from British colonial rule. Alan Knight, a farmer, was commandant of a...

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Zimbardo Speaks (2008)

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £49.00

Recording of a talk given by Dr Philip Zimbardo at a psychology conference for sixth form students organised by South West Conferences in 2008 in which he talks about his recent work. He tackles key topics...

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