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Medical Ethics: A Life Worth Living (1981 Video)

Director

Charles Kitchen

Producer

Andrew McLaughlin

Subject

Law; Medical sciences; Philosophy

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

A panel of medical and legal practitioners, including Sir Douglas Black, President of the Royal College of Physicians, and former High Court judge Sir Melford Stevenson, discuss the issues involved in...

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Founding of the Royal Society, The (1987 Video)

Producer

Andrew Barker

Subject

Mathematics; Science

Distribution

Out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Describes the various scientific groups that began to form in 17th-century England: at Gresham College, London, in 1645 and in Oxford in 1657, culminating with the founding of the Royal Society in 1660....

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Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier (1997)

aka: Race: The Floating Signifier

Director

Sut Jhally

Producer

Sut Jhally

Subject

Philosophy; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 62 minutes), $195.00

Stuart Hall offers an accessible and clarifying analysis of the social construction of race and racial difference. He explores how variations in people’s appearances come to be mistaken for essential...

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Wave-Particle Paradox, The (1980 Video)

Director

David Jackson

Subject

Physics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Demonstrates two famous paradoxes in physics: is light waves or particles and are electrons waves or particles? The discussion is set against the debate on whether truth is objective or subjective in the...

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K is for Karl: Revolution (2018)

aka: Revolution (Episode 3)

Director

Theopi Skarlatos

Subject

Philosophy

A series of five short films on the ideas of Karl Marx to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his birth. In the third episode of the series, Paul Mason travels to Paris, where Marx arrived on 8 March 1848...

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Rossellini’s History Films - Renaissance and Enlightenment: Blaise Pascal, The Age of the Medici, Cartesius (2009)

Director

Roberto Rossellini (1906-177)

Subject

French studies; History; Italian studies; Philosophy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 546 minutes), $59.95

"In 1963, Rossellini announced that he had abandoned cinema and would start working in television. He directed nine telefilms on historical subjects and six short documentaries, claiming TV could be used as...

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Gaea Girls (2002)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC, 106 min), £50.00 +VAT +p&p

A film about courage, transformation and dreams in the extraordinary world of Japanese women’s wrestling. Gaea Girls focuses on the hopes and fears of the beleaguered Gaea Japan squad, whose reputation...

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King: Montgomery to Memphis (1970 Film, Video)

aka: Montgomery to Memphis

Director

Ely Landau

Producer

Richard Kaplan; Ely Landau

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £50.00

Documents the activities of Dr Martin Luther King Jr in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s and discusses his philosophy of non-violence. Newsreel and television footage recall the civil rights...

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Abortion (2013)

Director

Joe Jenkins

Subject

Philosophy; Religious studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £65.00

This DVD includes three films exploring the ethical, legal and religious dimensions of the abortion debate. The first film, ABORTION: ANCIENT AND MODERN 1 (18 minutes) explores legal and ethical attitudes to...

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Reith Lectures 2002, A Question of Trust - Onora O’Neill (5 Lectures) (2005)

Subject

Philosophy; Politics & government; Psychology; Social Studies

We say we no longer trust our public services, institutions or the people who run them. Politicians, accountants, doctors, scientists, businessmen, auditors and many others are treated with suspicion. Their...

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