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  1. Citizenfour (2015)

    Director
    Laura Poitras
    Subject
    Media studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 114 mins.), £15.99

    In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted emails from someone...

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  2. Turned Toward the Sun (2015)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £6.98

    Documentary about the true-life story of British writer and poet Micky Burn. Born in Mayfair in 1912, his father worked for the Royal family. He became the lover of the communist spy Guy Burgess, and would...

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  3. Now It Can Be Told (2014 Video)

    aka: School for Danger

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), £19.99

    Studies the work carried out during World War 2 by Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents who were trained to assist resistance groups in their fight against Hitler. Two actual British agents, Captain...

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  4. M.I.5: The First Ten Years, 1909-1919 (1998 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    Digitised images of the newly released (November 1997) records dealing with the first ten years of the British Counter-Intelligence Security Service at the Public Record Office, with a fully searchable...

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  5. Spies: Subversion / Fight for the Cold War (1995 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, 2 videocassettes. VHS. b&w/col. 180 min., 1997 sale: £16.99 (inclusive)

    Shows how the cold war developed between East and West after the USA developed the atomic bomb, using MI5, MI6, CIA, KGB, FBI and STASI sources and case files and using archive film, interviews with...

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  6. Spies: Wartime Espionage / Infiltration and Assassination (1995 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, 2 videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 202 min., 1997 sale: £16.99 (inclusive)

    Made with access to intelligence sources and case files from around the world, and using archive film and interviews with intelligence personnel, follows intelligence operations surrounding World War 2: how...

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  7. Dreyfus Affair, The (1983 Video)

    Director
    Peter Coltman
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 36 min., 1999 sale: £17.50 (+VAT +p&p)

    An account of and assessment of a miscarriage of justice which divided French society and the effects of which are still felt today. Looks at the Dreyfus case of alleged espionage, how it became the...

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  8. Next of Kin (1942 Film, Video)

    Director
    Thorold Dickinson
    Producer
    Michael Balcon
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The most powerful and realistic of all the ‘careless talk’ films. This feature film tells the story of a raid on a submarine pen on the North West coast of France. A well organised German spy ring, much...

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  9. Dangerous Comment (1939 Film)

    Director
    John Paddy Carstairs
    Producer
    Michael Balcon
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    One of three CARELESS TALK films. Professionally made, but even on release it was felt to be remote from the lives of ordinary people, its heroes too upper class and its traitors too inevitably working...

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  10. Julius Shakespeare (Video)

    Director
    Nicholas Hytner
    Subject
    History; Shakespeare

    When Julius Caesar returns to Rome in triumph, his rapturous welcome by the people is noted and deplored by his enemies. As highly educated and privileged as they are treacherous, Caesar’s handful of...

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