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  1. 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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  2. Flying into the Wind (1983 Video)

    Director
    Edward Bennett
    Producer
    Margaret Matheson
    Subject
    Drama; Education
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 2011), £30

    A television play in which the parents of a brother and sister who do not attend school got to court to have them education at home. A just spends a day with the children to decide whether the parents’,...

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  3. Made in Britain (1983 Video)

    Director
    Alan Clarke
    Producer
    Margaret Matheson
    Subject
    Drama; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £30

    David Leland’s play about unemplyment and racism. A teenage skinhead is determined to reject other people before they reject him, and the play traces his increasing confrontation with the authorities...

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  4. R.H.I.N.O. (1983 Video)

    Director
    Jane Howell
    Subject
    Drama; Education
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £30

    A drama about a black teenage girl in conflict with the educational system. R.H.I.N.O. stands for ‘Really Here in Name Only’, a reference to a pupil who is never at school. The 15-year-old girl plays...

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  5. Birth of a Nation (1982 Video)

    Director
    Mike Newell
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £30

    A play made for television that looks at the conflict between the old, authoritarian methods of school teaching and the more relaxed methods favoured by progressive teachers. Features an idealistic master...

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  6. Penda’s Fen (1974)

    Director
    Alan Clarke
    Producer
    David Rose
    Subject
    Drama; Television studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £19.99

    Set in the village of Pinvin in Worcestershire and set to the music of Edward Elgar, Penda’s Fen tells the story of Stephen, a vicar’s son, and his sexual awakening via a series of visions and mystical...

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  7. Julius Caesar (1970) (1970 Film, Video)

    Director
    Stuart Burge
    Producer
    Peter Snell
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region A, 116 minutes), $29.95

    A feature film which grew out of Stuart Burge’s experience in directing a BBC television version of the play in 1959, as well as a subsequent London stage production. The pedestrian production was...

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