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  1. Out on a Limb: The Films of Caroline Leaf (1999 Video)

    Director
    Caroline Leaf
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 87 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    A compilation of films by American animator Caroline Leaf. 1: (1974, 8 min). Based on an Inuit story, illustrates the folly of marrying a creature who is not of one’s own kind. Leaf worked with Inuit crew...

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  2. Surviving Death: Stories of Grief (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 48 min., 1998 hire: £10.00 (+p&p +VAT) 1998 sale: £40.00 (+p&p +VAT)

    Examines how people renegotiate a new relationship with life after losing a loved one. Parents, children, siblings and friends talk frankly about how they have been affected by the death of someone close to...

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  3. Shylock (1998 Film)

    aka: Shylock for All Seasons

    Director
    Pierre Lasry
    Producer
    Kenneth Hirsch
    Subject
    Drama

    Documentary. A film which contends that hatred of Jews goes back 2,000 years, culminating with the near destruction of European Jewry. Argues that for the last 400 years, Western attitudes towards Jews have...

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  4. Sunrise over Tiananmen Square (1998)

    Director
    Shui-Bo Wang
    Subject
    Art; History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 29 minutes), Canadian $19.95

    Both an autobiographical work and an attempt to portray the new China, this collage film uses original art and family and archival photos to present a personal perspective on the Cultural Revolution and its...

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  5. Glimmer of Hope, A (1997)

    Director
    Charles Konowal
    Producer
    Joe MacDonald
    Subject
    Psychology; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 53 minutes), £29.00

    In an effort to come to terms with their loss and grief following their daughter’s murder, Don and Mary Streufert and their other daughter Emily arrange to meet the men who committed the crime, now in...

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  6. Toys (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 8 min., 1998 hire: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) 1998 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A short film without commentary with the message that war toys do not necessarily make warriors, but it is possible that they give a false glamour to war.

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  7. Anatomy of Desire (1995 Video)

    Director
    Peter Tyler Boullata; Jean-Francois Monette
    Producer
    Kenneth Hirsch; Jean-Francois Monette
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

    Looks at the growing debate surrounding the anatomical causes of homosexuality, tracing the historical relationship between medicine and same-sex desire and exploring how the ‘brain-sex/same-sex’ debate...

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  8. Canada Remembers (1995 Video)

    Director
    Terence Macartney-Filgate
    Producer
    Kent Martin
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 53, 54, 49 min.

    Three part documentary which looks at the key steps leading to the Allied Victory of the Second World War. Contains images from the Natinal Film Board of Canada’s newsreel and stock shot libraries and...

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  9. In My Own Time: Diary of a Cancer Patient (1995 Video)

    Director
    Joseph Viszmeg
    Producer
    Joseph Viszmeg
    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 45 min., 2000 hire: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Joseph Viszmeg was diagnosed with adrenal cancer which was spreading, but four years later he is still vibrantly alive. The film witnesses the ever-changing reality of a remarkable man; determination, gentle...

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  10. Lost Garden, The: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-BlachÉ (1995 Video)

    Director
    Marquise Lepage
    Producer
    Josée Beaudet
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Hire (film) Sale (video), Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 53 min.

    Biography of Alice Guy-Blaché, the world’s first woman film-maker who, from the moment she saw the Lumière brothers’ first moving picture, fell in love with movies and progressed to director of all...

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