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  1. This Week: Volume 1 (2014)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 400 minutes), £9.60

    THIS WEEK was the first weekly current-affairs programme aired on commercial television in the UK. Beginning in 1956 as a light, magazine-style show punctuated by more serious items, by the mid-1960s it...

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  2. How to Survive a Plague (2014)

    Director
    David France
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £12.99

    Filmmaker David France tracks the efforts made by activist groups ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) to convince the government and the pharmaceutical industry to speed up human trials of experimental...

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  3. Fire in the Blood (2014)

    Director
    Dylan Gray
    Subject
    Medical sciences; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £6.98

    FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south after 1996,...

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  4. Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir (2014)

    Director
    Andrew Braunsberg
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £8.16

    Film director Roman Polanski discusses his remarkable, often controversial, life and career with his longtime associate Andrew Braunsberg in conversations filmed during a time when Polanski was under house...

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  5. World in Action: Volume 4 (2014)

    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 628 minutes), £14.40

    This DVD collects a number of notable episodes from the ITV current affairs series which ran from 1963-1999. The Granada-produced series was trailblazing and hard-hitting, choosing subjects that other...

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  6. Three Sisters (2014)

    Director
    Laurence Olivier
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 158 minutes), £6.98

    Directed by Laurence Olivier and featuring a specially commissioned score by composer William Walton, this filmed production of Anton Chekhov’s play by London’s National Theatre Company is now...

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  7. Filmed in Supermarionation (2014)

    Director
    Stephen La Rivière
    Subject
    Television studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 114 minutes), £11.00

    Hosted by Lady Penelope and Parker themselves, and directed by Stephen La Rivière,'Filmed in Supermarionation’ features a wealth of previously unseen archive footage, interviews with the surviving casts...

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  8. Project Wild Thing (2014)

    Director
    David Bond
    Subject
    Environmental science; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 83 minutes), £15.99

    A documentary from David Bond, PROJECT WILD THING, explores the relationship of modern youngsters with nature. Bond’s first challenge is to try and get his own two children away from the TV screens, iPads...

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  9. Living on the Go (2014)

    Director
    Arjun Pandey
    Producer
    Nick Rance; Ambica Kapoor
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Film

    A team of researchers from the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) and the University of Sussex, have joined together to look at the impact of climate change on migration. This short film, based on their...

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  10. Tempo (2013)

    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Drama; Film studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £12.24

    ITV’s seminal arts programme, TEMPO ran for eight years through a decade which saw a creative explosion within all aspects of the performing arts. Its fluid style of presentation allowed an almost...

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