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  1. Mathematics and Culture (2015)

    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Mathematics

    Judith Grabiner describes how the 19th century saw radical change, producing new ideas of space, destroying the unchallenging authority of mathematics, revolutionising art, making relativity possible and...

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  2. Cathedrals of Culture (2014)

    Director
    Wim Wenders; Michael Glawogger; Karim Ainouz; Michael Madsen; Robert Redford
    Subject
    Architecture; Arts and Humanities
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 165 minutes), £11.34

    Six acclaimed filmmakers, including Robert Redford, Michael Glawogger and Michael Madsen, each explore the architecture and history of six iconic buildings; the Berlin Philharmonic, the National Library of...

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  3. High Art of the Low Countries, The (2013)

    Producer
    Basil Comely
    Subject
    Art; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

    Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the history of art, architecture and culture in the Low Countries, examining how the artists of Belgium and Holland were driven to search for anidentity in an area that was...

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  4. Look at Life: Volume 5 - Cultural Heritage (2012)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 640 minutes), £10.96

    This collection presents 64 films from the LOOK AT LIFE series encompassing Britain’s cultural heritage in all its forms and documenting a fascinating era of change - from the rebuilding of post-War...

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  5. Look at Life: Volume 6 - World Affairs (2012)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 720 minutes), £14.39

    This collection from the LOOK AT LIFE series presents films encompassing world affairs in the 1960s, from a visit behind the Iron Curtain to the fun and sun of Copacabana beach, from the plight of Tibetan...

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  6. Unity Through Culture (2011)

    Director
    Christian Suhr; Ton Otto
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

    Soanin Killangit is determined to unite the people and attract international tourism through the revival of culture on Baluan Island, Manus, Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific. He organises the largest...

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  7. Know the British in 1974 (2010)

    Subject
    Media studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £14.99

    An informative documentary film made in 1974 with the aim of educating American businessmen on the customs of 1970s Britain, as well as offering a definitive list of ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’. Aspects of...

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  8. Christopher’s Movie Matinée: Haphazard Adventures in Flower Power Cinema (1968)

    Director
    Mort Ransen
    Subject
    History; Social Studies

    In 1968, in Yorkville (Toronto), the NFB provided a group of hippies with cameras, film and a few NFB film crew members so they could make a film illustrating their lives and their world. The footage they...

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  9. Shakespeare’s Sonnets in Context (Multimedia)

    Subject
    Drama

    Podcast of a Thursday lecture held at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. Professor Russ McDonald proposes a new framework for examining the sonnets: Elizabethan visual design of the 16th...

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  10. A Disease Unto Death: Sadness in the Time of Shakespeare (Multimedia)

    Subject
    Drama

    Podcast of a Thursday lecture held at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. Cultural historian Erin Sullivan talks about the history of sadness in the sixteenth and seventeenth century with...

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