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  1. Coi Collection: Vol 4 - Stop! Look! Listen! (2010)

    Subject
    Health & safety; History; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 237 minutes), £19.99

    STOP! LOOK! LISTEN is the fourth volume released in the BFI’s series of films made by the Central Office of Information. It includes films looking at health, welfare and safety messages for the public...

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  2. 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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  3. Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post-War Britain 1951-1977 (2010)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 830 minutes), £34.99

    This 4-disc set contains 32 films and brings together for the first time almost 14 hours of film material preserved in the BFI National Archive, telling the previously untold story of British documentary...

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  4. Marriage in the 1950s and 60s: from Wedding Vows to Happily Ever After? (2010)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies; Women’s studies

    After World War II, during which most women worked outside the home as part of the war effort, everything changed. As the men went back to their jobs, the women were expected to return to their role as...

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  5. Alistair Cooke: The Essential Letters from America: 2000 - 2004 (2010)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 300 minutes), £18.35

    This last selection of Cooke’s letters focuses on the turbulent times in the US in the first years of the new millennium, covering the famously controversial 2000 election, in which George W. Bush narrowly...

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  6. 7 - 49 Up (2009)

    Director
    Michael Apted
    Producer
    Claire Lewis
    Subject
    Media studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £48.92

    A 6-disc set of the all the programmes in Granada’s landmark documentary series. The original SEVEN UP was broadcast in 1964 as a one-off WORLD IN ACTION special, featuring children who were selected from...

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  7. Victorian Farm (2009)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Archaeology; History; Veterinary science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £19.99

    A six-part television series which challenged a group of experts, including a food historian and two archaeologists, to rediscover the skills and tools of the mid-19th century and run a mock-Victorian farm...

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  8. Of Time and the City (2009)

    Director
    Terence Davies
    Subject
    Film studies; Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £19.99

    Acclaimed British filmmaker Terence Davies revisits the city of his youth in the elegiac documentary OF TIME AND THE CITY. Connecting a deeply personal biographical lens to the universal notion of time,...

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  9. 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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  10. Britain at War (2009)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 840 minutes), £26.99

    This collection of ten documentaries features testimonies of remaining veterans from the army, navy and airforce and civilian organisations who lived through WW2. The programmes contain rare archive film and...

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