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  1. Birds and the Bees, The (2011)

    aka: Joy of Sex Education, The

    Subject
    Health Education; History; Media studies; Medical sciences; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 338 minutes), £19.99

    From the impenetrably euphemistic to the breathtakingly explicit, this intriguing anthology of 16 films takes us through 60 years of sex education in Britain from the 1910s to the 1970s. All ‘unmentionable...

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  2. Paris - The Luminous Years: Toward the Making of the Modern (2011)

    Director
    Perry Miller Adato
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 120 minutes), $24.99

    A storm of Modernism swept through the art worlds of the West in the early decades of the twentieth century, uprooting centuries of tradition in the visual arts, music, literature, dance, theatre and beyond....

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  3. Anger, The (2011)

    aka: Rabbia, La

    Director
    Pier Paolo Pasolini; Giovanni Guareschi
    Subject
    Film studies; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 104 minutes), $29.98

    THE ANGER (made in 1963) taps into topics from the 1950s and the early 1960s, such as racism, the Middle East, Cuba, Stalinism, the Atomic bomb, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. The directors of the film -...

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  4. Dear Uncle Adolf: The Germans and Their Fuehrer (2011)

    Director
    Michael Kloft
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.95

    More than any other documents, it is the personal, private letters written by the German people to Adolf Hitler that provide the most intimate details of the Third Reich. A treasure trove of more than...

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  5. Town (2011)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 4 x 60 minutes), £17.00

    Nicholas Crane visits four British towns, each with their own unique personality and a history from the Vikings to hundreds of homes equipped with solar panels.: Scarborough, a survivor perched on the edge...

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  6. John Betjeman: Thank God It’s Sunday (2011)

    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £6.99

    Double bill of BBC films featuring narration from the poet John Betjeman. THANK GOD IT’S SUNDAY (1972) takes a look at how Londoners spend their Sundays. SUMMONED BY BELLS (1976), based on Betjeman’s...

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  7. Filthy Cities (2011)

    Producer
    Sam Starbuck
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

    Presenter Dan Snow traces the evolution of three of the world’s major cities, from the perspective of their unhygienic pasts, looking at how Paris, London and New York have evolved into paradigms of the...

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  8. Jobless (2010)

    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £75.00

    As the unemployment statistics start to climb once more, multi BAFTA winning film-maker Brian Woods goes behind the numbers to the people they represent, and presents his take on the recession. Filmed...

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  9. Genius of Design, The (2010)

    Subject
    Design
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 243 minutes), £19.99

    This five-part series tells the story of design from the Industrial Revolution through 20s modernism, the impact of war and freedoms of a post-war world, the swinging 60s, the designer 80s and up to the...

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  10. Not Just a Game: Power, Politics & American Sports (2010)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies; Sports science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $250.00

    A powerful new documentary based on the book by Dave Zirin, The People’s History of Sports, in which he argues that far from providing merely escapist entertainment, American sports have long been at the...

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