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  1. Coi Collection: Vol 6 - Worth the Risk? (2011)

    Subject
    Health & safety; History; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 215 minutes), £19.99

    This sixth compilation of films made by the Central Office of Information examines the issue of ‘risk’ in our everyday lives. Complimenting the safety messages in Volume Four, STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!, the...

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  2. Coi Collection: Vol 5 - Portrait of a People (2011)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 291 minutes), £19.99

    The fifth volume in the COI collection, PORTRAIT OF A POEPLE, proudly looks at Britain and its people. Promoting an idealised notion of Britain has often been at the forefront of COI film production: from...

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  3. Coi Collection: Vol 3 They Stand Ready (2011)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 291 minutes), £19.99

    This third compilation of COI films helps paint a positive picture of life in the Services. The films include morale-boosting documentaries, propaganda items and numerous recruitment films, which placed...

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  4. Coi Collection: Vol 1 - Police and Thieves (2010)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 296 minutes), £19.99

    The first volume in a series of DVD compilations of films made by the Central Office of Information. Established in 1946, the Central Office of Information (COI) was a successor to the wartime Ministry of...

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  5. Coi Collection: Vol 2 - Design for Today (2010)

    Subject
    Architecture; Design
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 296 minutes), £19.99

    Established in 1946, the Central Office of Information (COI) was a successor to the wartime Ministry of Information and was responsible for producing thousands of films which celebrated Britain, its people...

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  6. 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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  7. Alice in Wonderland (2003)

    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £19.99

    Jonathan Miller’s 1966 television adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic story. His vision of the story was a picture of upper-middle-class Victorian society, pompous, irascible, stuffy and addicted to...

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  8. Yang and Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1996 Video)

    Director
    Stanley Kwan
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    VHS Out of Distribution, 1997 sale (VHS): £15.99 (inclusive)

    Film director Stanley Kwan traces the evolution of his identity as a gay man through the films he grew up with, demonstrating that Chinese cinema (from Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China) has dealt with...

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  9. Throne of Blood (1957 Film, Video)

    aka: Throne of Blood

    Director
    Akira Kurosawa
    Producer
    Akira Kurosawa
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £14.99

    The story of MACBETH transposed to medieval Japan, with Macbeth as a samurai and drawing on traditions from Noh drama. Toshiro Mifune is Macbeth. In Kurosawa’s masterly interpretation of MACBETH ‘the...

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