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  1. Private Joseph Kay (2018)

    Director
    Matt Kay
    Subject
    History; Literature

    Jackie Kay’s poem Private Joseph Kay is dedicated to her grandfather who fought at the Somme. This short film, made by award-winning director Matthew Kay, responds to the poem and the themes it raises. [7...

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  2. Ted Hughes Dreamtime (2015)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £9.99

    Ted Hughes was one of the major poets of his generation. His older brother Gerald Hughes wrote a memoir of their relationship called ‘Ted and I’. The two brothers were close all their lives. This DVD is...

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  3. Teenage (2014)

    Director
    Matt Wolf
    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 78 minutes), £17.99

    Documentary about the emergence of the ‘teenager’ at the turn of the 20th century. With the end of child labour a new transitionary stage between childhood and adulthood emerged. During these teenage...

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  4. I was There: The Great War Interviews (2014)

    Director
    Detlef Siebert
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    In the early 1960s, the BBC, in partnership with the Imperial War Museum, conducted a series of interviews with First World War veterans, for the television series THE GREAT WAR. Most of these interviews...

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  5. Great War Poets, The (2014)

    Director
    Bob Carruthers
    Subject
    History; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 46 minutes), £11.00

    Documentary about the First World War poets, including Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon and A.E.Housman.

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  6. Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene (2013)

    Director
    Thomas P. O’Connor
    Producer
    Thomas P. O’Connor
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 66 minutes), $24.99

    The documentary uses Graham Greene’s own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and film clips, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The...

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  7. A Royal Occasion: From Victoria to Elizabeth II (2012)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 287 minutes), £19.99

    To coincide with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the BFI has put together a collection of films from the the BFI National Archive on a range of royalty-related subjects, beginning as far back as 1896. The...

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  8. China: The Long March - Historic 1986 TV Expedition (2012)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 48 minutes), $7.49

    China was only just opening up to the west when this Sydney Australia TV crew were given access, uprecedented to foreigners until that date, to document, film and photograph the entire epic 8,000 mile length...

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  9. British Space Programme: Projects Cancelled 1962 (2012)

    Subject
    History; Space science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 76 minutes), £11.99

    Whilst the achievements and exploits of the Soviets and Americans in space exploration are well documented, the story of the British Space Programme is much less well known. Beginning in 1962 with the...

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  10. William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin: The Spoken Word (2012)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Audio (CD, 66 minutes), £10.00

    This collection of recordings features the American writer William S Burroughs and the British-born artist Brion Gysin: the man Burroughs credited with the invention of the ‘cut-up’ literary technique....

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