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  1. Still the Enemy Within (2014)

    Director
    Owen Gower
    Producer
    Owen Gower
    Subject
    Politics & government; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 mins), £12.49

    The film tells the story of the 1984-85 British miners’ strike. Thirty years on, this is the first-hand experience of those who lived through Britain’s longest strike. In 1984, a conservative government...

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  2. World in Action: Volume 4 (2014)

    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 628 minutes), £14.40

    This DVD collects a number of notable episodes from the ITV current affairs series which ran from 1963-1999. The Granada-produced series was trailblazing and hard-hitting, choosing subjects that other...

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  3. Historical Disasters: Black Christmas (2012)

    Subject
    History

    This documentary tells the story of the Pretoria Pit Disaster of 21 December 1910 in which 344 men and boys died, after an explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit, near Bolton, Lancashire. The film...

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  4. Miners’ Hymns, The (2011)

    Producer
    Bill Morrison
    Subject
    History; Music; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £16.00

    This elegy, in film and music, to the coal mining history of north east England, is the product of a collaboration between filmmaker Bill Morrison and musician and composer Johann Johannson. Collaged from...

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  5. Portrait of a Coalminer (2009)

    Subject
    History; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 347 minutes), £24.99

    This two-disc DVD collection brings together over five hours of short films exploring the lives of the British coal miner. Remastered drama-documentaries, cartoons and news footage, all produced by the...

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  6. Portrait of a Miner : The National Coal Board (Vol 1) (2009)

    Subject
    Engineering; Film studies; History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 347 minutes), £24.99

    This 2-disc collection showcases and celebrates the extraordinary work of the National Coal Board Film Unit - operating between 1947-1984 - producing films to inform, entertain and galvanise working people...

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  7. Miners’ Strike, The: Twenty Years on (2009)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government

    The Miners’ Strike arouses debate like few other contemporary political events. The 25th anniversary re-opened old divisions, with arguments still raging around the miners’ leadership, the motives of the...

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  8. Miners’ Campaign Tapes, The (2009)

    Subject
    History; Media studies; Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £9.74

    These six short films, released for the first time, are a crucial document of a cataclysmic episode of British history 25 years ago. A testament to solidarity and activism, the Miners’ Campaign Tapes...

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  9. Coal House, The (2008)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £13.99

    Three families experience life in the south of Wales coalfield of the 1920s. The families swap their modern luxuries for the harsh reality of daily life of a coalmining family, living in coalminers’...

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  10. Battle of Orgreave, The (2006)

    Director
    Mike Figgis
    Subject
    Art; Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 63 minutes), £19.99

    The Battle of Orgreave was a re-enactment of one of the most violent confrontations of the 1984/5 miners strike, when police mounted a cavalry charge through the mining village of Orgreave in south...

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