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  1. Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (2015)

    Director
    Pratibha Parmar
    Subject
    History; Literature; Social Studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 84 minutes), $395

    Feature film documentary. Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple. Her early life unfolded in the midst of...

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  2. Tales out of School: Four Films by David Leland (2011)

    Director
    Alan Clarke; Edward Bennett; Jane Howell; Mike Newell
    Subject
    Drama; Education
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £14.40

    This anthology brings together the four films written by David Leland and screened originally in 1983 - the films are: BIRTH OF A NATION, FLYING INTO THE WIND, R.H.I.N.O. and MADE IN BRITAIN, all of which...

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  3. Face to Face with Annie Machon (2011)

    Subject
    Politics & government

    Interview in the Face to Face series made for local Canadian television channel ICTV, which aims to provide viewers with information not ordinarily shown on corporate television. In this programme Annie...

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  4. Big River/King Corn (Classroom Version) (2010)

    Director
    Aaron Woolf
    Subject
    Agriculture; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 27 + 50 minutes), $295.00

    BIG RIVER is a companion film to KING CORN about the ecological consequences of industrial agriculture. This DVD contains a shortened (50 minute) classroom version of KING CORN (the full version is available...

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  5. Science in Focus Special: The Virtual Body (2004)

    Subject
    Physics; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

    This series of five 20-minute programmes explains the workings of the human body using advanced virtual technology. Presented from inside the body, body functions are viewed close up and functions are...

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  6. Science in Focus Special: Beyond the Square Window (2003)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 2 x 20 minutes), £19.99

    Based on the Faraday Lecture, 2001, these two 20-minute programmes were made in collaboration with the Institution of Electrical Engineers and are sponsored by the Independent Television Commission. After...

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  7. Quest for the Lost Civilisation (3 Parts) (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Timothy Copestake; David Wickham; Stefan Wickham
    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 3 x 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive) each 1999 sale: £17.99 (inclusive) set of three

    Writer Graham Hancock on a global search for evidence to prove this theory that the Nazcan civilisation existed some 10,000 years ago and remains of its legacy are still evident. 1: Hancock travels to Egypt...

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  8. View to a Kill, A (1996 Video)

    Director
    Rod Williams
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows the Kelley family of Texas, who exercised a new state right to watch the execution of the man who brutally killed their children Kara and Mark in 1988. Shows their week leading up to the execution,...

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  9. Means of Grace (1996)

    Director
    J. Clements
    Subject
    Mental Health and Counselling; Social Studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $99 [Institutional rate]

    Ann Clements Conger was an ambitious journalist in the 1940’s. In the 1950’s she became a mother, and torn between her domestic roles and her career, she began a frightening journey into the world of...

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  10. Bhopal: The Second Tragedy (1995 Video)

    Director
    Sunandan Walia
    Producer
    Sunandan Walia
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 51 min.

    Mark Tully investigates the Bhopal disaster of 1984 and its continuing devastation on the city’s inhabitants. Ten years after methyl isocyanate gas from a Union Carbide chemical factory leaked over the...

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