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  1. Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2011)

    Director
    Giles Penso
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £17.99

    Documentary which looks at the life, career and influence of Ray Harryhausen, a man deemed the grandfather of stop-motion animation. Famous for his work on films such as JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963) and...

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  2. Authentick and Ironicall Historie of Henry V, The (1996 Television)

    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    Drama; English language and literature
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution (2005), Television broadcast. col. 49 min.

    Explores the problematic relationship between event, text and performance in Shakespeare’s Henry V. Also focuses on the way war, and images of war, are presented on stage and on film. In five sections: 1)...

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  3. Great Sit Down, The (1978 Film)

    Producer
    Stephen Peet
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An account of how auto workers seized plants at General Motors in 1937 - a single incident which represented a turning point in the American Labour movement. Uses contemporary footage showing pickets,...

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  4. Before Hindsight (1977 Film)

    Director
    Elizabeth Taylor Mead
    Producer
    Jonathan Lewis
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An examination of the attitudes expressed by the non-fiction British cinema of the 1930s towards the events that led to World War 2, based on research into all the available material for the years 1931-1939...

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  5. Stand Up and Be Counted (3 Parts) (1977 Film)

    Director
    Michael Rabiger
    Producer
    Stephen Peet
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Reports on five unrelated protests and ‘concerns of conscience’ that moved people to protest during the years 1914-1936. Part 1: Reports on five unrelated protests and ‘concerns of conscience’ which...

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  6. Burston School Strike, The (1974 Film)

    Director
    Stephen Peet
    Subject
    Education; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In 1914 the children of Burston in Norfolk went on strike in protest against the sacking of their teachers Annie and Tom Higdon. The strike lasted 20 years. Mrs Higdon, head of the school, and Tom, her...

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  7. De Gaulle: The Man Who was France (1973 Film)

    Director
    Jonathan Gill; Philip Strick
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A study of General de Gaulle.

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  8. Lenin: Men of Our Time (1970 Film, Video)

    Producer
    Patricia Lagone
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Biography of Lenin using archive footage. James Cameron says, ‘If ever there was one man of our time who transformed our time, and who will necessarily live forever in the great, terrible, prodigious and...

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  9. Let My People Go (1961)

    Director
    John Krish
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 23 minutes), £20.00

    A polemical film which uses voiceover and reconstructed scenes intercut with newsreel material, including footage of the Sharpeville massacre, to present an indictment of the Apartheid system in South Africa.

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  10. Side by Side

    Director
    Chris Kenneally
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 99 minutes), £15.99

    Documentary looking at the current state of the film industry, as it finds itself in a transition period between traditional celluloid and the possibilities offered by new digital technology. The film...

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