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  1. Big History (2014)

    Subject
    History; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 435 minutes), £24.99

    American documentary series narrated by Bryan Cranston which attempts to show how major events or resources have had an effect on the progress of civilisation.

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  2. Slavoj Zizek: Towards a Materialist Theory of Subjectivity (2014)

    Subject
    Philosophy

    Audio recording of lecture given by Slavoj Zizek at Birkbeck College on 22 May 2014 [112 minutes].

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  3. Squares: Ideas from Plato’s Republic (2014)

    Subject
    Mathematics; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 31 minutes), £15.00

    This film introduces the (so-called) ‘two worlds’ aspect of the theory of forms, and the mathematical route to understanding the forms; it considers in what way democracy may be said to be irrational; it...

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  4. Action Bill (2014 Film)

    Director
    Gareth Whitte
    Producer
    Justin Butler; Rachel James

    A Lego stop-motion animation film about William Shatner travelling back in time via a giant robot to kill William Shakespeare. Patrick Stewart (voice) comes to Bill’s rescue.

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  5. Out of the Unknown (2014)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1323 mins), £69.99

    A 7-disc box set of the classic anthology BBC science fiction series from 1965-1971. The series drew from writers of the calibre of Frederick Pohl, E.M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury and John Wyndham....

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  6. Thief of Baghead (2014 Television)

    Director
    Edmund Fong
    Subject
    Drama

    American adult animated science-fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening. The series follows the adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly...

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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. Precision: The Measure of All Things (2013)

    Director
    Mike Cunliffe
    Producer
    Mark Woodward
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £41.99

    Series in which Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores why we are driven to measure and quantify the world around us and why we have reduced the universe to just a handful of fundamental units of measurement....

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  9. Code Breaker: The Alan Turing Story (2013)

    aka: Codebreaker: The Alan Turing Story

    Director
    Clare Beavan
    Subject
    Drama; Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £15.99

    Docudrama directed by Clare Beavan that explores the life of British mathematician Alan Turing and the events that led up to his death in 1954, when he ate an apple laced with cyanide following his...

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  10. Science Britannica (2013)

    Subject
    Science

    Three part series in which Professor Brian Cox looks at British scientists and their contributions to the modern world.

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