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Selling the Secret (1990 Video)

Director

Ross Wilson

Producer

Paul Murricane

Subject

Technology

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 sale: £20.00

Follows the first steps taken by the Soviet Union to sell its exploitation of outer space to the West. Also captures the reactions of a group of Western businessmen in the Soviet Union to the environment in...

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Media Screen Roundup - March 2015

Date

17 Apr 2015, 10:52

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. The Red Shoes and Soviet film feature in...

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Soviet Courts of Justice (1980 Film)

Subject

Law; Russian studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Discusses courts of lustice in the Soviet Union. Includes a court sequence dealing with a road accident and an interview with the Minister of Justice. The election of judges and people’s assessors is also...

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Shto Novovo (What’s New?): An Elegy for the Union (2004)

aka: What’s New?

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes), £10.00

A documentary about post-Soviet transition in Kyrgyzstan after a decade of structural reform. While illustrating the traditional pastoral life of the Kyrgyz (animated by Kyrgyz music) the film addresses...

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Age Seven in the Ussr (1992)

Director

Michael Apted

Subject

Anthropology; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £40.00

A portrait of the former Soviet Union painted by seven-year-old children from the length and breadth of the USSR. At a time of breathtaking and devastating political and economic change, how do Soviet...

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Red Army (2015)

Director

Gabe Polsky

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 85 minutes), £7.99

Feature documentary about the Soviet Union and the most successful dynasty in sports history: the Red Army ice hockey team.

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Russia’s Secret War (1996 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1998 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Presents evidence that Stalin was involved in the Korean War and over 70,000 members of the Soviet Union’s armed forces took part.

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Winter War in Its European Context, The (1974)

Director

George Brandt

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £60.00

Deals with the character of Soviet-Finnish relations after the Second World War in comparison with other European neighbours of the Soviet Union, and examines the Winter War of 1939-40. First part considers...

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View from Moscow, The (1986 Video)

Producer

Roger Penfound

Subject

History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Gives the Soviet view of the nuclear weapons dilemma. Filmed in Moscow, it shows senior Soviet spokesmen, academics, journalists and military representation, talking about and responding to key issues in the...

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Soviet Newsreel No. 69 (November 1943) (1943 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The five items depict the repair and rebuilding of villages and industry destroyed by the Germans. In Stalinogorsk the coalmine, deliberately flooded during the occupation, is once again productive. At...

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