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  1. Stealing the Sun (1984 Video)

    Director
    Ashley Bruce
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min.

    Examines the low priority accorded to research into renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, water, and biomass. In the United States, funding goes to a few large projects rather than small-scale...

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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. Nicaragua: A Nation’s Right to Life (1983 Video)

    Producer
    Alan Lowery
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

    John Pilger visits Nicaragua and investigates the society in post-revolutionary times, in the context of the feudal role of the Samoza family which preceded the Sandinista takeover.

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  5. 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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  6. Truth Game, The (1983 Film, Video)

    Director
    David Munro
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Looks at worldwide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race, beginning with the dropping of two American atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, through the build-up of nuclear arms by Russia and America...

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  7. Troublemakers: Newlands (1983)

    Director
    Michael Houldey
    Subject
    Education; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £20.00

    What happens to children who play truant and are labelled ‘disruptive’? Newlands Education Guidance Centre in Birmingham is one of many units around the country which try to help. This documentary...

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  8. Troublemakers: Belinda (1983)

    Director
    Michael Houldey
    Subject
    Education; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £20.00

    Belinda Turner, 14, lives in Birmingham and attends a local comprehensive school - sometimes. When she does, her teachers are wary. For Belinda, they believe, is a troublemaker. This fictionalised...

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  9. 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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  10. Oi for England (1982 Video)

    Director
    Tony Smith
    Producer
    Sue Birtwistle
    Subject
    Drama; Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min.

    The play by Trevor Griffiths. ‘Ammunition’, a group of four white skinheads, play and sing protest music in an area torn by racial violence. Their environment and inability to find employment leads to...

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