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  1. 30s Britain Volume 2: North Sea (2006)

    Director
    John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 86 minutes), £12.99

    Collection of films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘North Sea’ (1938) directed by Harry Watt. An Aberdeen trawler in trouble gets assistance from Wick coastguard radio station, operated by the GPO. The first...

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  2. Shaktima No Veh (2006)

    Director
    Jayasinhji Jhala
    Subject
    Anthropology; Drama; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 60 minutes), $195.00

    The Goddess Shaktima is the most popular goddess in the region of Saurashtra (Western India) known as Jhalavad. This documentary presents the story of Shaktima as performed by the traditional muslim Bhavai...

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  3. Pattern of Britain, The (2006)

    Director
    Ralph Keene; Ken Annakin; Charles de Latour; Humphrey Swingler
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £16.33

    Four films about the farmlands of rural England made between 1944-1947, looking at the countryside after the war and how it was changing fast as old ways were dying out, In each of the films, past, present...

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  4. Racism: It’s Still Happening (2005)

    Director
    Gillian Neish
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 15 minutes), £100.00

    Nine people from different black communities, who have experienced racism simply because of the colour of their skin and being visibly different, discuss their personal experiences, which are neither...

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  5. I for India (2005)

    Director
    Sandhya Suri
    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £15.99

    In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the UK. The first thing he did was buy two Super-8 cameras, one of which he sent home to his family in India. For the next 40 years, the family exchanged...

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  6. 24 Square Miles and Harting - An English Village (2005)

    Subject
    Geography; History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 62 mintues), £19.99

    Two films from the 1940s depicting rural life in Oxfordshire and Sussex at the time.

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  7. Where Words Prevail (2005 Video)

    Director
    Steven Budlong; Salvatore Rasa
    Producer
    Steven Budlong; Salvatore Rasa
    Subject
    Drama

    Documentary exploring the acclaimed work of Cicely Berry, Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. From rehearsals at the RSC in Stratford-on-Avon, to workshops and Master Classes in Seoul, New York,...

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  8. Detroit: Ruin of a City (2005)

    Director
    Michael Chanan; Ralph Steiner
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 92 minutes), £115.00 [University rate]

    Once an industrial powerhouse and the hub of the American automobile industry, Detroit is now in serious decline and one of the poorest, most segregated cities in the USA. With the participation of Detroit...

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  9. Fighting to Fish / Un Siecle de Lutte (2004)

    Director
    Charles Menzies
    Subject
    Languages; Social sciences

    Adapted from Dr. Charles Menzie’s book ‘Red Flags and Lace Coiffes’, this film uses animated archival images to tell the turbulent history of industrialisation and resistance over the last century in...

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  10. Roman Mosaic - Lopen, The (2003)

    Subject
    Archaeology; FE
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 42 minutes), £12.00

    The story of a chance discovery in 2001 of a large Roman mosaic in a small Somerset village. The film is in three parts and documents the discovery of the Lopen mosaic, the re-creation of a panel of the...

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