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Philosopher and author Alain de Botton investigates the possibility that people are as concerned by status in modern society as they are by wealth. He travels to the United States to test his theory that the...
Based on the whistle-blowing novel by Bethany McLean, the film is a searing examination of the Enron accounting scandal, revealing the psychology of greed and corporate corruption that facilitated the...
A film directed by John Mackenzie dramatising the life of Jimmy Boyle who was reputed to be Scotland’s most violent man. After a hard upbringing he was twice charged and cleared of murder but was finally...
PRIDE OF PLACE was made as as a first project while Longinotto was a student at the National Film and Television School. As a teenager, she had been sent to a girls’ boarding school in an old, isolated...
The Theatre Girls Club was a hostel for homeless, destitute and alcoholic women in Soho, London. Run by six paid workers, it was the only hostel in London which to take any women at any time. The filmmakers...
With the birth of punk rock came a popular interest in anarchism. While the early punk scene used anarchist imagery for its shock value, the band Crass went on to lead the Anarcho-Punk movement - taking the...
From World War Two onwards, thousands of American service personnel were posted to Great Britain. Before they came, they were shown films designed to familiarise themselves with the country and its...
In this classic 1989 lecture world-renowned cultural theorist Stuart Hall traces the social, intellectual, and institutional environment from which cultural studies emerged. An introduction to the issues...
An irreverent look at why so many Americans are obese and what happens if you eat nothing but fast food for a month. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock does just this whilst providing a look at the food culture in...
A collection of 89 American television commercials made in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Volume 1 includes: 89 classic American television cigarette commercials from the 1950s-60s. For full details see the...
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