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  1. Home Front, The: 1939-1945 (1982 Multimedia)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, 30 slides. b&w.

    A selection of cartoonists’ graphic images designed to closely examine the Home Front during World War 2. Cartoons drawn for the major newspapers and opinion-forming journals are compared and contrasted to...

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  2. Song of the Shirt, The (1979 Film)

    Director
    Susan Clayton; Jonathan Curling
    Subject
    Economics; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An investigation into the position of working women in the 1840s, the effects of protectionist philanthropy and the resistance to it. Deals with a group of women working in the new ‘sweated’ clothes...

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  3. Hard Times (1970 Film)

    Director
    Richard Broad
    Producer
    Ian Martin
    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Discusses poverty in Britain in the 1970s. Old age pensioners, unsupported mothers and disabled people describe their difficulties.

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  4. Harvest of Shame (1962 Film)

    Producer
    David Lowe
    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A report revealing the terrible conditions suffered by many thousands of migratory workers who harvest the crops in the richest country in the world.

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  5. Heart of Britain (1941 Film)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Attempts to convey the enormous capacity for endurance that ordinary people had during the war when faced with seemingly intolerable situations. Of special interest because it looks at the whole country’s...

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  6. Grapes of Wrath, The (1940 Film)

    Director
    John Ford
    Producer
    Darryl F Zanuck
    Subject
    Literature; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 129 minutes), £15.99

    Feature film based on the novel by John Steinbeck. An impoverished dustbowl family’s struggle to reach the orchards of California, and the exploitation which awaits them.

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  7. Britain 1935 Jubilee Year (1935 Film)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Comment on the depression and the contemporary conception of progress.

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  8. A Propos de Nice (1930 Film)

    Director
    Jean Vigo
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Reveals the reality below the surface of life on the fashionable beaches and boulevards of Nice.

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  9. Louis Malle Documentary Collection, The

    Director
    Louis Malle
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 818 minutes), £51.86

    Malle’s little known body of work as a documentary filmmaker shows both the discerning eye of a true artist and the investigatory skills of a great journalist. This collection includes: VIVE LE TOUR...

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