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Soundbreaking (2017)

Director

Jeff Dupre; Maro Chermayeff

Subject

Music; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 391 minutes), £12.24

Featuring more than 150 original interviews with some of the most celebrated artists, producers and music industry pioneers, this eight-part series traces a century of sonic innovation and revolution,...

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Six Plays by Alan Bennett (2017)

Director

Stephen Frears; Giles Foster; Lindsay Anderson

Producer

Stephen Frears

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 414 minutes), £17.35

This DVD collects six Alan Bennett plays produced by Stephen Frears. Frears himself directs four of the six plays, with the remaining two directed by Giles Foster and Lindsay Anderson. ME! I’M AFRAID OF...

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Eighties, The (2017)

Producer

Tom Hanks; Gary Goetzman; Mark Herzog

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 344 minutes), £12.24

Produced by Emmy-award winning Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, ‘The Eighties’ is the third series in the acclaimed documentary strand chronicling American society and popular culture in the...

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Frighteners, The (2017)

Director

Gareth Davies; Mike Hodges

Subject

Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 390 minutes), £13.00

Television drama. This release consists of all 13 episodes of London Weekend Television’s 1972 anthology of half-hour psychological horror films. The release is the first in a range of DVDs presented by...

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Out of Town (2017)

Subject

Agriculture; Design

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 875 minutes), £19.50

Documentary series in which presenter Jack Hargreaves explores rural life in Britain, observing and reflecting on its character, traditions, history and folklore, and the skills that had passed from...

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Crunch and Other Stories, The: Three Plays by Nigel Kneale (2017)

Director

Michael Elliott; Roy Battersby; Herbert Wise

Subject

Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 158 minutes), £9.75

Television drama. Three plays written by Nigel Kneale for ITV. THE CRUNCH (1964) stars Harry Andrews as a prime minister attempting to avert a nuclear catastrophe in London; Maxwell Shaw, Anthony Bushell...

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Halas & Batchelor Short Film Collection, The (2016)

Director

John Halas; Joy Batchelor

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 139 minutes), £9.18

Animation. This collection of eighteen short films presents a necessarily selective view of the output of the British animation company, from 1948 - 1981. A useful range of extras includes ‘An Animated...

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Safe and Secure Water for Uganda (2016)

aka: Secure Safe Water in Uganda’s Chanching Climate

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Film

This short film looks at the impact of climate change on water and health by following the introduction of a payment-by-results pilot system in rural Uganda, whereby local private sector professionals earn...

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John Pilger: Breaking the Mirror (2015)

Director

David Munro

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 52 mins), £9.99

Documentary. Originally broadcast in 1997, the film considers the downfall of the newspaper Pilger worked on for 23 years: a popular, intelligent tabloid once read by a quarter of the British population and...

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Remapping Uganda’s Future (2015)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Film

Uganda is already experiencing the impacts of climate variability and associated economic losses and these impacts are expected to increase over the next 50 years. This short film examines the economic...

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