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Last Mitterand, The (2005)

aka: Promeneur du Champs de Mars, Le

Subject

French studies; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £19.99

A dramatised film based on the writing of Francois Mitterand’s memoirs, providing a glimpse of his life, times and legacy. The old man is dying from prostate cancer and knows he doesn’t have much time to...

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American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs (2017)

Director

Yale Strom

Subject

American Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 97 minutes), $295.00

Bernie Sanders has inspired a generation - but who inspired him? Most people in America do not know that the contemporary political movement to address income inequality began over 100 years ago with Eugene...

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Days of Hope (4 Parts) (1975 Video)

Director

Ken Loach

Producer

Tony Garnett

Subject

Drama; History

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 95, 100, 80, 135 min.

A dramatised documentary series interpreting British labour history from a socialist angle. After depicting the plight of conscientious objectors in the First World War, and a significant sideways glance at...

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Film Socialisme (2011)

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Subject

Film studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes)

An allegorical , semi-documentary cine-essay that is a meditation on the history, culture, philosophy and economics of modern Europe. Described by Godard as ‘a symphony in three movements’: THINGS SUCH...

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Hayek: His Life and Thought (3 Parts) (1985 Video)

Director

Cecil Petty

Producer

Eben Wilson

Subject

Economics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 3 x 25 min.

Friedrich Hayek, awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1974, talks about the major events in his life and the gradual refinement of his ideas. The interviews cover his contributions to economic and...

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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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