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  1. Skin and Coal (1987 Video)

    Director
    Claudine Boothe
    Producer
    Claudine Boothe
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 53 min.

    Tells the story of black miners and their families in Doncaster, Leeds and Nottingham. Black miners have now established themselves within most jobs in the industry although, until relatively recently, some...

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  2. Handsworth Songs (1986)

    Director
    John Akomfrah
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, DVD (PAL, 59 minutes), £120.00

    A film essay on the concepts of race and civil disorder in contemporary Britain. Filmed in Handsworth and London during the riots of 1985 and using extensive archive footage, the film attempts to examines...

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  3. Territories (1985 Film)

    Director
    Isaac Julien
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A kaleidoscopic presentation challenging traditional ways of looking at black cultures. Includes images from 1976 to 1984, from West London to Northern Ireland, covering carnival, colonialism, surveillance,...

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  4. Struggles for Black Community (1984)

    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 38 minutes), £23.00

    A record of the unity and continuity of the Black struggle in Britain. These films record the unity and continuity of black struggle in Britain and the richness and variety of black resistance. In the...

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  5. Riots and Rumours of Riots (1981 Video)

    Director
    Imruh Caesar
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 33 min.

    A history of immigration from the Caribbean from the time of World War 2 upt o the 1958 Notting Hill riots, viewed from the perspective of today (1980). Using archive material - photographs, posters,...

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  6. Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Joanne Grant
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Using the life of Ella Baker as a connecting thread, traces the history of the US civil rights movement from the 1940s to the 1960s. Ella Baker’s political career was intertwined with most of the events of...

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  7. South Africa Belongs to Us (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Chris Austin; Peter Chappell; Ruth Weiss
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The struggle of black women in South Africa. Secretly shot with the help of two black women journalists, features portraits of ordinary women and interviews with women leaders, including Fatimah Meer, the...

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  8. Black Teachers (1977 Film)

    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A group of black teachers and children discuss the ways in which they consider that black children are discriminated against in schools and what they and black parents can do about it. In particular they...

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  9. Step Forward Youth (1977 Film, Video)

    Director
    Menelik Shabazz
    Producer
    David Kinoshi; Menelik Shabazz
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Interviews on race relations with teenage West Indians from Brixton and Notting Hill in which the London-born blacks describe their affinity with the West Indies and their hostility to the white man’s...

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  10. Black Joy (1977)

    Director
    Anthony Simmons
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (95 minutes), £15.99

    Based on Jamal Ali’s stage play Dark Days and Light Nights, this film, which was nominated for the Golden Palm award at Cannes in 1977, tells the story of a naïve Guyanese immigrant who learns the hard...

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