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  1. Albert and the Story of Olaudah Equiano (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Drama; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 70 min.

    David Oddie’s theatre performance of a play by Jane Newton-Chance play about the travels of an 18th-century Nigerian as seen by a museum caretaker in south-west England.

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  2. Changing China (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 100 min., 1999 sale: £19.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

    A series of five programmes examining the stagggering pace and scale of change in the People’s Republic of China - both in the cities and in remote villages. Asks who gains and who may be getting left...

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  3. Talking Television: Pity the Poacher (1988 Video)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

    A video-based pack that provides teachers with a range of materials for a practical and investigative study of television. The video PITY THE POACHER is taken from the TVS current affairs series ‘Facing...

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  4. Winter Journey, A (1976)

    Director
    Clive Gunnell
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 40 minutes), £10.00

    Clive Gunnell’s film depicts an incident in Thomas Hardy’s novel ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ during which Tess goes on a long walk through the Dorset countryside looking for her husband. The film...

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  5. Too Close to Heaven: A History of Black Gospel Music (3 Parts) (1996 Video)

    Director
    Alan Lewens
    Producer
    Leo St Clair
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassettes. VHS. col. 180 min., 2000 sale: £25.00 (inclusive)

    Professor Horace Boyer traces the development of gospel music, using footage of live performances and interviews, from it West African roots and the spirituals sung by slaves in the American South through to...

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  6. Biology at War (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 115 min.

    2 (55 min): Explores the history of biological warfare from World War 2 until 1969, when President Nixon renounced American use of biological weapons, and examines current research in the West. Notes that...

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  7. Hawk and a Handsaw (1995 Television)

    Series
    Due South
    Director
    George Bloomfield
    Producer
    Paul Haggis

    In episode 12 of Season 1, Fraser investigates strange occurences in a private mental institution by posing as a madman. Hamlet’s "I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk...

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  8. Tribal Eye (2007)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 350 minutes), £19.99

    In one of his first series after resigning as Controller of BBC2 and returning to programme-making, David Attenborough looks at art in tribal societies. During the eight programmes he visits a cliff-dwelling...

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  9. Land is Bad, The: The Mursi (1991 Video)

    Director
    Leslie Woodhead
    Producer
    Leslie Woodhead
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    This is Leslie Woodhead’s fourth DISAPPEARING WORLD film made with the Mursi of south-west Ethiopia since 1985. He has filmed the continuing story of a people as they fight to maintain their identity...

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  10. Reopening Night (2021 Television)

    Director
    Rudy Valdez
    Producer
    Meghan Schale

    Documentary charting the development of Merry Wives, the Black-led 2021 Shakespeare in the Park adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor set in a community of West African immigrants in South Harlem. The...

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