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  1. Frankenstein: The True Story (2014)

    Director
    Jack Smight
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 181 minutes), £15.99

    This made-for- television film, which was first broadcast in 1973, was co-scripted by Christoper Isherwood, and features a heavyweight cast, including John Gielgud, James Mason and Ralph Richardson. Less...

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  2. Disaster 1 (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Davies
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to illustrate large-scale disasters of the 20th century. Covers the sinking of the ‘Titanic’, the Tenerife air crash, the mud-slide in Aberfan in South Wales in...

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  3. Entertainment 1 (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Elaine Sharp
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to illustrate changes in the way leisure time has been spent during the 20th century. Looks at popular music, including Elvia Presley, the growth of cinema and...

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  4. Freedom (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Sasha Stewart
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to illustrate the struggles for freedom world-wide in the 20th century. Looks at apartheid in South Africa and the triumph of Nelson Mandela, East Germany and the...

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  5. Metropolis 4 (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Barry O’Riordan
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to illustrate the growth of cities and developments in communications and transport during the 20th century. Illustrations cover telehones, radio and television,...

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  6. Politics of Violence (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Lucy Carter
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to illustrate political violence in the 20th century. Looks at Saddam Hussain in Iraq, the ‘Troubles’ in Ireland, Joseph Stalin in Russia, Adolf Hitler in Nazi...

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  7. Utopia 1 (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Lucy Carter
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to explore 20th-century ideologies. Shows Disneyland, Fidel Castro’s revolutionised Cuba, Hitler’s dream for Germany. the growth of communism in the USSR, Iran...

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  8. Selling Hitler (1991)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 257 minutes), £19.99

    Mini-series adapted from the non-fiction book by Robert Harris about the Hitler Diaries hoax of the 1980s, starring Jonathan Pryce, Alan Bennett, Tom Baker, Alexei Sayle and Barry Humphries as Rupert Murdoch.

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  9. Passionate Pilgrim, The (1984 Film)

    Director
    Charles Wallace
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (24), 6.99

    Comedy short based loosely on Shakespeare’s The Passionate Pilgrim XV in which mad Lord Eric competes with Sir Tom for Lady Madeleine. Narrated by John Le Mesurier.

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  10. City of Death. Part 4 (Television)

    Director
    Michael Hayes
    Producer
    Graham Williams

    British science fiction television serial. The Doctor and Romana are on holiday in Paris in 1979 when they sense that someone is tampering with time. He, Romana and a private detective named Duggan are then...

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