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  1. Aim Higher - What’s It All About? (2007)

    Subject
    Education

    University is no longer just for people from wealthy families, as more students now progress to higher education with help from the Aimhigher initiative. Aimhigher provides a range of activities to help...

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  2. School Matters - Estelle Morris on the Attainment Gap (2007)

    Subject
    Education

    Estelle Morris, former secretary of state for education, visits schools in London and Sunderland that are successfully reducing the so-called "attainment gap" between groups of pupils. Talking to...

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  3. Family Life (2002)

    Subject
    Media studies; Mental Health and Counselling; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 103 minutes), £12.99

    A harrowing drama-documentary account of a teenage girl descending into schizophrenia. The film is an attack on contemporary psychiatric practices and the coldness of middle-class life in Britain.

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  4. Doon School Project Films (5 Parts) (2000)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Education
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 140, 110, 54, 100, 87 minutes), £50.00 each part

    A series of five films by David MacDougall on the Doon School, perhaps the most famous boys’ boarding school in India, located in Dehra Dun in Uttaranchal. The films were made over a period of three years....

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  5. Comrades (1986)

    Director
    Bill Douglas
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 175 minutes), £22.99

    Bill Douglas’s historical drama depicts the story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs: six agricultural labourers from Dorset who were transported to Australia for swearing an unlawful oath, as they gathered together...

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  6. Dread, Beat an’ Blood (1980)

    aka: Dread, Beat and Blood

    Director
    Franco Rosso
    Producer
    Franco Rosso
    Subject
    Literature; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (45 minutes), £50.00

    Profile of Linton Kwesi Johnson whose poetry is rooted very strongly in feelings of marginalisation and alienation found within urban black populations in the UK. Johnson, born in Jamaica in 1952, has...

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  7. Art we Deserve, The (1979)

    Director
    Jeremy Marre
    Subject
    Art; Social Studies

    The ART WE DESERVE is an film essay by Richard Cork about the gulf between minority art and mass culture. Examining the public’s preference for bland mass reproduction pictures which are traditional in...

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  8. Them and Us (1977 Film, Video)

    Producer
    Colin Richards
    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Examines the state of British industry and considers whether the class structure of an average factory has any bearing on poor performance. Shows the changes introduced by the firm of Tannoy Ltd of...

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  9. Not in Our Class, Dear (1966 Film)

    Producer
    John Percival
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An investigation of class barriers in Britain in the 1960s.

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  10. Servant, The (1963)

    Director
    Joseph Losey
    Producer
    Joseph Losey; Norman Priggen
    Subject
    Drama; Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111 minutes), £15.99

    Based on a novel by Robin Maugham, the drama is the story of a sinister manservant who insinuates himself into the life of his master and gradually reverses their respective roles. It captures the unease...

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