Results

Burnley... Memories of the 1930s and 1940s: The Films of Sam Hanna

Director

Sam Hanna

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), £14.99

Sam Hanna pioneered the use of film in schools as a means of instruction. In 1932 he started to film life and events in his home town Burnley, as well as capturing dying local crafts for posterity on movie...

DVD Find Other To order

Best (2017)

aka: George Best: All by Himself

Director

Daniel Gordon

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £9.99

Documentary about George Best, which explores the life of the footballer from his explosive debut as a teenager for Manchester United to his final years as an alcoholic.

DVD Find Other To order

Saturday Morning Pictures: Best of the Children’s Film Foundation, Vol 2 (2002)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 123 minutes), £9.99 (inclusive)

Two films made by the Children’s Film Foundation. The DVD contains 2 extra programmes from THE MAGNIFICENT 6 1/2 series.

DVD Find Other To order

Ben Culey’s Thetford (1993 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 40 min., 1996 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

Events in the town filmed by Ben Culey who owned the Palace Cinema. Sequences include carnivals, football, sports days, the old fire brigade, floods, Armistice Day, the 1951 Festival of Britain celebrations...

DVD Find Other To order

Trouble on the Terraces (1994 Video)

Subject

Psychology; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £9.99 (Sanctuary)

Dubbed the ‘English Disease’ in the 1970’s, by the early 1990’s football hooliganism was thought to be on the wane. The footballing authorities believed that improved crowd control measures and the...

DVD Find Other To order

Turbulent Landscapes: Chico Buarque’s Brazil (1992 Video)

Director

Alex Anderson

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Chico Buarque is a Brazilian singer/songwriter, who has also written for the theatre and cinema and is the author of a best-selling novel. Here he talks and sings about carnival in Rio, football, and his novel.

DVD Find Other To order

Modelling and the Modelling Cycle (1986 Video)

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Introduces the modelling cycle with two examples of its application: 1) shows how British Rail uses a modelling cycle to fit a football special into its regualr timetable; 2) shows a far more complex example...

DVD Find Other To order

Mitchell & Kenyon Edwardian Sports (2007)

Director

Sagar Mitchell; James Kenyon

Subject

Film studies; History; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 108 minutes), £19.99

The collection of films on this DVD offers an unparalleled opportunity to see and learn about sporting action at the beginning of the twentieth century. Over a century ago, filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and...

DVD Find Other To order

Scenes of Norfolk Life (1993 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 55 min., 1996 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

Looking at life in the county from 1902, with scenes of town, village and country life. Also lifeboats, a steam engine rally, Norwich City football team 1913, holidays at Caister 1972, and Norwich through...

DVD Find Other To order

Social Scientists at Work (1996 Video)

Producer

Jack Leathem

Subject

Economics; Sociology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at four examples of social science research - at the people conducting the research and the methods they use. Examples of both quantitative and qualitative research are illustrated by Gallup polls,...

DVD Find Other To order