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  1. In Search of Stability (1986 Television)

    Series
    Africans: A Triple Heritage, The

    Series on Africa written and presented by Professor Ali A. Mazrui. Episode 6 looks at the history of governance in Africa. Includes an extract (5 mins) in which an actor delivers Mark Antony’s funeral...

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  2. Tools of Exploitation (1986 Television)

    Series
    Africans: A Triple Heritage, The

    Series on Africa written and presented by Professor Ali A. Mazrui. Episode 4 traces the colonial economic legacy, the development of slavery, and European control of Africa’s natural resources, with...

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  3. Secret Honor (1984 Film)

    aka: Secret Honour

    Director
    Robert Altman
    Producer
    Robert Altman

    Feature film. Speculative one-man drama from the stage play by Stone and Freed. Former President Nixon, alone in his private office, dictates his thoughts into a tape recorder. His only company is a...

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  4. C. L. R. James Lectures: Shakespeare (1983 Video)

    Director
    Christian Wangler

    The West Indian historian C L R James talks about King Lear and why Shakespeare, ‘the most political writer that Britain has ever seen in regard to the creative arts’, was ‘no racist’. He quotes...

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  5. This Sceptered Isle (1979 Film)

    Director
    Reg Lancaster

    An experimental short, shot on Super 8, by amateur British filmmaker Reg Lancaster. The film is inspired by the public sector workers’ strike in 1978-79 which brought about the downfall of Callaghan’s...

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  6. Coriolanus: Politics and Tragedy (1976 Audio)

    A discussion between John Goode, University of Warwick and Dr Terry Eagleton, Wadham College, Oxford. The reverse of tape contains Antony and Cleopatra: Politics, Myth and Theatre.

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  7. Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 12, 1973 (1973 Television)

    Recording of Senator Sam Ervin (Democrat) at the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, aka Senate Watergate Committee. In a debate with Herbert L. Porter (Nixon’s campaign aide)...

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  8. Richard III (1970 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare Audiotapes
    Director
    Peter Thomson

    Terence Hawkes (University College Cardiff) and W. Moelwyn Merchant (University of Exeter) describe Richard III as one of Shakespeare’s most modern plays in its political consciousness and interpretation....

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  9. Coriolanus: The People’s Choice (1969 Film)

    Series
    Explorations in Shakespeare
    Producer
    Kurt Reis; Ed Moser

    Educational series. One in a twelve-part series of films made by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (now TV Ontario). The aim was to relate ‘Shakespeare’s timeless ideas and understanding...

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  10. Gori, Gori, Moja Swesda (1969 Film)

    aka: Shine, Star, Shine!

    Director
    Alexander Mitta

    Feature film. A heroic comic fantasy about an artist’s destiny at the tumultuous time of social transformation three years after the October Revolution. In a town square, a solo-performance based on...

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