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  1. Brits Who Made the Modern World (2009)

    Subject
    Engineering; Technology

    Series of six 30-minute programmes in which Peter Snow looks at the untold stories of British scientists and engineers who developed some of the modern world’s most incredible technology. The series covers...

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  2. Russian Revolution in Colour (2005)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £9.99 (GU); £12.99 m(P)

    The Russian Revolution of 1917 changed the world forever. Almost overnight, an entire society was destroyed and replaced with one of the biggest and most radical social experiments ever seen. Within a...

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  3. Great Scientists (2004)

    Subject
    FE; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £19.99

    Oxford historian Professor Allan Chapman presents a series on five great scientists. The programmes combine location filming, animation, comedy and drama to challenge many existing notions about these thinkers.

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  4. Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547 (2003)

    aka: Glory of Gothic, The

    Subject
    Architecture; Art; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £19.99

    An introduction to the art of late medieval England and the early years of the Renaissance. This is the age of the Hundred Years’ War, the Wars of the Roses and the early Tudors. Under kings from Henry IV...

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  5. Romance of the Far, Fur Country, The (1920)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 120 minutes), $35.00 (home use)

    'The Romance of the Far Fur Country’ was first released in 1920, two years before the ‘Nanook of the North’. It is a silent documentary depicting Arctic fur trappers in 1919 and was made to commemorate...

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  6. Evening with Hamlet, An (Television)

    Director
    Ozzie Nelson
    Producer
    Ozzie Nelson
    Subject
    Drama

    Television sitcom. Ozzie decides to read Hamlet aloud to the family because David is studying the play at school. Before the reading begins a mysterious stranger, Whitfield, appears. With his help, the...

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