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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Harlan County (1976)

    Director
    Barbara Kopple
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £14.99

    A re-release on DVD of one of the seminal films of the US documentary movement. Barbara Kopple’s 1976 Oscar winner profiles a miners’ strike in Kentucky that saw a corporation playing hardball against...

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  6. Miners’ Film, The (1974)

    Subject
    Film studies; History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 49 minutes), £8.00

    Documents the industrial action taken by miners in the winter of 1973-4 which helped to bring down Edward Heath’s Tory government. The strike is seen as part of the successful opposition against the...

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  7. World in Action: Volume 3

    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 454 minutes), £7.64

    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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  8. Dole Not Coal: The 1984 Miners’ Strike: The Strikers’ Story

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

    This film pays testimony to the people and politicians supporting the strike, together with the cause and effect to the striking miners in a dispute unimaginable in modern Britain, but one that has seemingly...

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