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  1. Kate Plays Christine (2016)

    Director
    Robert Greene
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 minutes), £9.99

    Documentary by Robert Greene about the on-air suicide of American newsreader Christine Chubbuck. Chubbuck, who was a news reporter for a local television station in Florida shot herself live on air in 1974....

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  2. Arbor, The (2011)

    Director
    Cleo Barnard
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

    Blending the borders of narrative and documentary filmmaking, artist-cum-director Clio Barnard reconstructs the story of troubled British playwright Andrea Dunbar and her tumultuous relationship with her...

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  3. Last Days of the Raj (2007)

    Subject
    History

    This drama-documentary, filmed entirely on location in India, charts the events of six traumatic months in 1947 that saw the end of the British Raj. Lord Louis Mountbatten arrived in India in March 1947 as...

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  4. 30s Britain Volume 2: North Sea (2006)

    Director
    John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 86 minutes), £12.99

    Collection of films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘North Sea’ (1938) directed by Harry Watt. An Aberdeen trawler in trouble gets assistance from Wick coastguard radio station, operated by the GPO. The first...

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  5. Alien Worlds (2005)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

    Two-part series exploring the possibility of habitable planets and alien life forms outside our solar system. Experts believe that, with the launch of a new generation of telescopes, new planets and new life...

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  6. Great Authors: Charles Dickens (2003)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 510 minutes (3 discs)), £29.99

    A 3-part DVD set exploring the life, times and work of Charles Dickens, using a mixture of drama and dramatised documentary from the BBC archives. His is a fascinating story - from rags to riches, complete...

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  7. Brave Don’t Cry, The (1952)

    Director
    Philip Leacock
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 179 minutes), £16.33

    A reconstruction of a disaster at Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery, Ayrshire, in 1950, dramatises the tense events of the rescue of miners trapped underground after a pit shaft was flooded and nine men were...

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  8. Tinker (1949)

    Director
    Herbert P. J. Marshall
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 73 minutes), £12.99

    A drama documentary (1949) about a young gypsy boy who enrols in the training school of the newly nationalised coal industry. The film was shot on location in the Durham mining villages with a...

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