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  1. Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism (2016)

    Subject
    Architecture

    Jonathan Meades investigates the architecture of Mussolini’s Italy. He finds a dictator caught between the forces of modernism and a revivalism that harked back to ancient Rome.

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  2. Europe’s Far Right, Democracy and the European Elections (2014)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government

    Podcast of a public event held to debate the rise of far right parties and neofascist organisations across Europe, focusing on reasons for discontent, including immigration, unemployment and poor economic...

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  3. Mussolini: The History of Italian Fascism (2013)

    Director
    Folco Quilici
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 480 minutes), £19.99

    Documentary looking into the Italian politician and leader of the National Fascist Party Benito Mussolini and the rise of Fascism in Italy. The DVD features little-seen footage from the Italian...

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  4. Russian Revolution and Fascism in Colour, The (2013)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 180 minutes), £17.83

    RUSSIAN REVOLUTION IN COLOUR Cold, hungry and disillusioned, the Russian factory workers of Petrograd staged a demonstration about a lack of bread during the winter of 1917. Incredibly, this small show of...

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  5. Wave, The: Afterschool Special (2011)

    Director
    Alexander Grasshoff
    Subject
    History; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 44 minutes), $7.49

    A US television dramatised reconstruction of the real experiences of a high school class in Palo Alto, California In April, 1967. When high school teacher, Ron Jones, struggles to explain to his pupils why...

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  6. Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Sicilia!, Une Visite Au Louvre (2010)

    Director
    Daniele Huillet; Jean-Marie Straub
    Subject
    Art; Music; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 202 minutes), £17.99

    CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH covers the years of Bach’s life from his marriage to Anna Magdalena to his death in 1748. ‘It is at once a love story, a documentary, a socio-political statement, and a...

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  7. Wave, The (2008)

    Director
    Dennis Gansel
    Subject
    Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £17.99

    Film dramatisation, transposed to modern-day Germany, of an actual experiment in which American high school teacher Ron Jones attempted to engage his students in politics, by taking the controversial...

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  8. 1900 (2007)

    aka: Novecento

    Director
    Bernardo Bertolucci
    Subject
    Film Studies; History; Italian studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 326 minutes), £15.99

    Bertolucci’s epic film of the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century. It chronicles the lives of two men born on the same day in 1900. Depardieu plays the bastard...

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  9. Battle of Cable Street (2006)

    Director
    Yoav Segal
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 10 minutes), free for academic use

    Blurring the line between live action and animation, this is a remarkable re-telling of a seminal event in Anglo-Jewish history. A young boy is taken inside the magical world of his own sketchbook by his...

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  10. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001)

    Subject
    Drama; English language and literature; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 127 mins), £19.99

    Drama set in the Greek islands at the time of the Italian occupation during World War II.

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