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  1. Life Story of David Lloyd George, The (2009 Film)

    Director
    Maurice Elvey
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 152 + 47 minutes), £18.99

    Maurice Elvey’s silent biopic maps out the life of British Prime Minister Lloyd George from childhood to the end of the Great War, using actors and hundreds of extras in studio and location scenes. In 1918...

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  2. Face to Face (2009)

    Subject
    Art; Film studies; History; Literature; Media studies; Politics & government; Psychiatry
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1050 minutes), £128.00

    All 35 episodes of the landmark FACE TO FACE series hosted by former politician John Freeman, broadcast between 1959-1962. Featuring guests from all backgrounds, the interview technique was insightful,...

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  3. Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain (2009)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.56

    An epic account of the events that have shaped our lives since the end of the Second World War. Using archive and stills, dynamic sequences of Andrew Marr’s journey across Britain, anecdote and analysis,...

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  4. Thirties in Colour, The (2009)

    Subject
    Anthropology; History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £15.65

    Offering powerful, poignant and often surprising insights into the pivotal years of the1930s, this BBC4 documentary series brings to viewers a global treasure trove of rare colour films - many of which have...

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  5. David Starkey’s Monarchy - The Windsors (2009)

    Subject
    History

    Dr David Starkey concludes his epic story of the British monarchy with a special programme on the history of the House of Windsor. Far from being stuck in the past, the story of the monarchy in the 20th...

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  6. Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930 - 1950 (2008)

    Director
    Paul Rotha; Arthur Elton; Basil Wright; Humphrey Jennings
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 720 minutes), £34.99

    A collection of 40 films from the British documentary movement during its period of greatest influence. These films capture the spirit and strength, concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before,...

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  7. Open Road, The (2007)

    Director
    Claude Friese-Greene
    Subject
    Film studies; Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £11.99

    In the summer of 1924 Claude Friese-Greene, a pioneer of colour cinematography, recorded life on the road between Land’s End and John O’Groats. This travelogue was conceived as a series of 26 shorts to...

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  8. This is England (2007)

    Director
    Shane Meadows
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (102 minutes), £19.99

    A look back at British working-class life in the early eighties through the eyes of young Shaun who becomes friends with a gang of older skinheads. All is well until the nationalist, Combo, comes on the...

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  9. Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The (2007 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £12.99

    Based on the definitive written work by William Shirer, the Berlin chief of CBS News who covered events in the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis via his radio broadcasts to the USA. Here graphically...

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  10. Look at Life: Swinging London (2006)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 132 minutes), £14.99

    Sixteen films from the colourful LOOK AT LIFE series, produced by the Rank Organisation every week for screening in Odeon cinemas between 1960 and 1969. Stories covered include the boutiques of Carnaby...

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