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  1. Visions of Change: The Evolution of the British TV Documentary Vol. 1: BBC 1951-1967 (2016)

    Subject
    Broadcasting; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 382 minutes), £34.99

    An extensive collection of television films made during the 1950s and 1960s, covering a range of topics, and including films by such influential directors as Denis Mitchell, Philip Donnellan, Ken Russell,...

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  2. Dinosaur 13 (2015)

    Director
    Todd Miller
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

    Documentary which follows the progress of a ten year battle over the fossilised skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex discovered in South Dakota by palaeontologist Peter Larson and his team from the Black Hills...

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  3. TV Family: Behind the Scenes of the First Reality Television Program (2015)

    Director
    Ethan Thompson
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 56 minutes), $275

    In 1960, NBC transmitted what is widely considered to be the first "reality television" show in American broadcast history. Hosted by Jane Wyatt, and billing itself as a "new kind of visual reporting," it...

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  4. Missing Picture, The (2014)

    Director
    Rithy Panh
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £13.99

    In this documentary, Rithy Panh uses archival footage and clay figures to recreate the terrible acts that Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge committed under the dictatorship of Pol Pot between 1975 and 1979.

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  5. Big Melt, The (2014)

    Director
    Martin Wallace
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £19.99

    A special commission as part of the 100 Years of Stainless Steel celebrations, THE BIG MELT is a feature length elegy to the men and women who toiled in Sheffield’s steelworks and a hymn to Britain’s...

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  6. Chris Marker Collection, The (2014)

    Director
    Chris Marker
    Producer
    Anatole Dauman
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £24.99

    Eleven films directed by Chris Marker. Includes; SUNDAY IN PEKING (DIMANCHE A PEKN, 1956); LETTER TO SIBERIA (LETTRE DE SIBERIE, 1958); DESCRIPTION OF A STRUGGLE (DESCRIPTION D’UN COMBAT, 1960); THE SIXTH...

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  7. Night Will Fall (2014)

    Director
    André Singer
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £19.99

    When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had...

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  8. Bridging the Gap: Independence (2014)

    Subject
    Film studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), Free

    Four Films on the theme of "Independence" commissioned by Scottish Documentary Institute. DIRECTED BY TWEEDIE: (dir. Duncan Cowles) CHAPPIN’: (dir. Igor Slepov) TOUCH LIFE: (dir. Leo Bruges) CAILLEACH:...

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  9. 112 Weddings (2014)

    Director
    Doug Block
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £4.99

    For the past two decades, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Doug Block (51 Birch Street, The Kids Grow Up) has helped support himself by shooting weddings. Hired for his intimate documentary style, he found...

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  10. Future Shock! The Story of 2000ad (2014)

    Director
    Paul Goodwin
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes), £12.00

    First published in 1977 at the height of the punk era, UK Sci-Fi comic 2000AD was violent, anti-authoritarian, darkly funny and distinctly British. With such iconic characters as Strontium Dog, Nemesis and...

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