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Battle of Chile, The (3 Parts) (1973 Video)

Director

Patricio Guzman

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 320 minutes), $440

A portrait of the passions of a people divided and a nation on the brink of civil war. Patricio Guzman shot the whole of his three-part film with a team of six people constantly on the spot with as many...

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Sadler Story, The (1986)

Subject

History; Philosophy

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 23 minutes), £10.00 (+p&p)

Jack Sadler was born in 1887 and died in 1960. During that time, the Tyneside pacifist lived through two World Wars, and refused to fight in either of them. His principled stand led to his imprisonment as a...

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Che Guevara As You Have Never Seen Him Before (2007)

Director

Manuel Parades

Subject

Politics & government; Spanish studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £14.99

October 9th 1967. La Higuera, Bolivia. Shots ring out and a man dies. A man, but not the ideals and principles he stood for. The execution ensured that Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna became, and remains,...

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Confessions of Winifred Wagner, The (1976 Film)

Director

Hans Jürgen Syberberg

Subject

Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Winifred Wagner was born in Hastings, England. Orphaned, she was adopted by Karl Klindworth, a friend of Richard Wagner. In 1914 she was taken to Bayreuth; one year later she married Richard Wagner’s son,...

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Kuhle Wampe (1932 Video)

aka: Wither Germany?

Director

Slatan Dudow

Producer

Georg M Hoellering; Robert Scharfenberg

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 68, 48 min., 2004 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A 68-minute feature film written by Berthold Brecht, focusing on the fortunes of a working-class family in depression-era Berlin and the disastrous consequences of poverty and mass unemployment which forced...

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Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973)

Director

Rene Vienet

Subject

Film studies; Philosophy; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 95 minutes), $14.99

"Directed" by the French situationist Rene Vienet, this film is an exercise in intellectual absurdity: A Hong Kong martial arts movie overdubbed with French political diatribes and philosophies which is...

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Jack Firestein, Only a Bookseller (2009)

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 55 minutes), £25.00

Jack Firestein was a bookseller with bookstalls outside the Camden Labour Centre, in Unity Theatre foyer and shops in the East End, Willesden and Soho. He was also a driver to Clive Jenkins, General...

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Winstanley (1975)

Director

Kevin Brownlow; Andrew Mollo

Producer

Kevin Brownlow; Andrew Mollo

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 96 minutes), £19.99

A story set during the period of the civil wars in England, telling of the commune of ‘Diggers’ set up in 1649 on St George’s Hill in Surrey under the leadership of the visionary Gerrard Winstanley....

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Alan Bush: A Life (1983)

Director

Anna Ambrose

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £50.00

Film about the life and work of socialist composer Alan Bush, whose career was dedicated to trying to "connect musical activity with real happenings in the world." This aim is exemplified both by the...

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Civil War: End Game (2002)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 30 minutes), £9.99 (CM)

In this course Tristam Hunt looks at what used to be thought of an an English civil war between Roundheads and Cavaliers - and shows that it was in fact a war between three kingdoms and two religions, and...

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