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Decline of Tsarism, The (1988 Video)

Producer

Ian Thompson

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Uses a variety of sources including a series of early colour photographs commissioned for Nicholas II and a painting by Il’ya Repin entitled ‘Religious Procession in the Kirsk Gubernia’, to show how...

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Russian and British Troops in Iran

Date released

20 Oct 1941

Series name

War Pictorial News

Issue no

29

NoS ID

156032

Story no

2 / 3

The modern city of Teheran; street scenes; peasants. Strategic importance of Iran - link between Russia and ports of Persian Gulf- artery for supplies from Britain and the US. Temporary Allied occupation of...

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Triumph of the West (13 Parts) (1985 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 13 x 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £390.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series tracing the story of western civilisation and looking at the impact it continues to have on the rest of the world. 1: Visits China, Japan and India, where western forces remain far stronger than...

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Soviet Offensive

Date released

16 Feb 1942

Series name

War Pictorial News

Issue no

42

NoS ID

156057

Story no

1 / 1

General Sikorski arrives in the Soviet Union and is met by Monsieur Kotz, the Polish Ambassador to Russia, the Vice Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars and the Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs...

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Moving on (1999 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale - see BEYOND RED, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., See: BEYOND RED

Three 8-minute films: 1) AIRPORT: A new wave of hostile nationalism is driving ethnic Germans from Kazakhstan, where they have lived for over 100 years. This film shows German families departing for Germany...

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Health (1999 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale - see BEYOND RED, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Three 8-minute films: 1) FIGHTING AIDS: The thriving industrial town of Verkhnaya Salda has been devastated by an AIDS epidemic. Economic crisis has led to the total collapse of social welfare systems and...

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Moscow Elegy - Alexander Sokurov (2007)

aka: Moskovskaya Elegiya

Director

Alexander Sokurov

Subject

Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £24.99

Originally intended to mark the 50th birthday of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. However, disagreements within the Soviet Professional Union of Cinematographers about the style and content of the film...

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Soviet Influence, The: Battleship Potemkin / Drifters (2012)

Director

Sergei Eisenstein; John Grierson

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 124 minutes), £19.99

The second in the BFI’s series looking at the influence of silent Soviet films on British filmmakers of the 1930s pairs Sergei Eisenstein’s 1929 film BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN) with John...

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Elegy of the Land - Maria/Last Day of a Rainy Summer (2007)

Director

Alexander Sokurov

Subject

Agriculture; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 40/30 minutes), £24.99

Two shorts by Alexander Sokurov about the significance of the land to Russia, where it has an almost spiritual meaning. Both films are embued with the director’s signature moody melancholy. MARIA, made in...

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Russian Revolution and Fascism in Colour, The (2013)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 180 minutes), £17.83

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION IN COLOUR Cold, hungry and disillusioned, the Russian factory workers of Petrograd staged a demonstration about a lack of bread during the winter of 1917. Incredibly, this small show of...

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