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  1. School That Turned Chinese, The (2015)

    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 3 x 50 minutes each), £585.00

    This BBC documentary series follows five teachers from China as they take over the education of 50 teenagers in a British school. After four weeks, the Chinese and British systems go head to head with the...

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  2. From the Sea to the Land Beyond (2013)

    Director
    Penny Woolcock
    Producer
    Mark Atkin
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 73 minutes), £19.99

    Using footage taking from four main sources at the British Film Institute - the Mitchell and Kenyon collection; Topical Budget newsreels; public information films from the COI collection and travelogues from...

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  3. Empire (2012)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 290 minutes), £24.99

    Jeremy Paxman presents this five part documentary series exploring the influence the British Empire still has over modern Britain. The series traces its historical rise and fall, whilst revealing its lasting...

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  4. Statute Law: Making Legislation (2010)

    Subject
    Law; Politics & government
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL), free

    This series of short audio/video interviews followed by a lecture, recorded in November 2010, provides a unique insight into the process by which legislation is created in the United Kingdom. All the...

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  5. We Are the People We’Ve Been Waiting for (2009)

    Director
    Daryl Goodrich; Caroline Rowland
    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 77 minutes), free

    This independent documentary is based on an idea by Lord Puttnam and Michael Barber. It follows the lives of five Swindon-based teenagers and the challenges they face during their education. It reveals the...

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  6. Meet the Immigrants (2008)

    Subject
    Geography; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180), £17.99

    This DVD contains the six programmes from the BBC1 observational documentary series which looks at the lives of several members of the new wave of inward migration into the UK. It takes the audience into...

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  7. Lost World of Friese-Greene, The (2006)

    Director
    Claude Friese-Greene
    Subject
    Film Studies; Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 177 minutes), £19.99

    In the mid-1920s, Claude Friese-Greene drove from Land’s End to John O’Groats making a series of films en route. These remarkable films captured the life and people on his journey in colour, at a time...

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  8. Your Job in Great Britain (2006)

    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes), £12.99

    From World War Two onwards, thousands of American service personnel were posted to Great Britain. Before they came, they were shown films designed to familiarise themselves with the country and its...

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  9. Our Country and the Dim Little Island (2005)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 55 mintues), £18.99

    Two films reflecting life in Britain in the 1940s.

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  10. Britain 1750-1900 (2000 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 100 min., 2000 sale: £7.50 (inclusive)

    Series looking at the response to industrialisation and exploring how the day-to-day lives its people changed as Britain transformed into an industrialised nation. In five parts, covering: migration and...

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