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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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The Miners’ Gala at Durham, 1947

Date released

Jan 1948

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

5

NoS ID

334737

Story no

2 / 2

NoS synopsis: The miners of Durham come together for their demonstration and gala day. Shots of the crowds and the banners and bands. This was the first rally under nationalization, so it also included...

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World, The: A Television History (Parts 14-26) (1983 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC), $39.49 (including parts 1-13)

Based on ‘The Times Atlas of World History’, the series of 26 30-minute programmes presents the history of mankind on a global scale. It uses specially designed animated maps, computer-generated graphics...

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People’s Flag, The (5 Parts) (1987)

Director

Chris Reeves

Producer

Lin Solomon

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 300 minutes), £60.00

A series of five programmes offering an alternative socialist history of Britain in the 20th century. Part 1: looks at how the Labour Party developed at a time when the British Empire was still strong. It...

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Cartoons Make a Mint (2003)

Subject

Economics; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 56 minutes), $9.99

Five of John Sutherland’s classic Technicolor economic/industrial information films in one compilation. The films are from the series FUN AND FACTS ABOUT AMERICAN BUSINESS, which were 9 animations made "to...

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