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Battle of Rorke’s Drift, The (1996 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min.

Uses re-enactments, dramatised eye-witness accounts, period images and photographs to tell the story of the handful of British Redcoats who successfully defended Rorke’s Drift against more than 4000 Zulu...

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War Against the Zulus, The (1996 Video)

aka: Zulu Wars 1879 - The Disaster at Isandlwhana

Subject

History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min.

Uses battle reconstructions from the film ZULU DAWN, further reconstructions and re-enactments, dramatised eye-witness accounts, and 3-D mapping techniques to tell the story of the slaughter at Isandlwhana,...

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When Ireland Starved: An Gorta Mór, The Great Famine (1992)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 98 minutes), 14.99 Euros

This four part series examines the causes and effects of poverty in Ireland, which led to the Great Famine of the 1840s, during which around a million people died. The episodes are as follows: 1. Causes of...

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Slaves and Noble Savages: Equiano and the Enlightenment (1991 Video)

Producer

Robert Philip

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Born in the 1740s, Olaudah Equiano was kidnapped by slavers in West Africa and subsequently spent many years in the British Navy, before eventually buying his freedom and becoming famous through his...

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Four Feathers, The (1939 Video)

Director

Zoltan Korda

Producer

Irving Asher; Alexander Korda

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 110 min.

Feature film. A disgraced young British officer redeems his honour by helping to put down the Khalifa’s revolt in the Sudan in 1898.

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