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‍English girl learning about French pronunciation, in particular ‘r’ and the word ‘rien’.

The Zambouley brothers are having a bad day, a bad hair-hook in hell kinda day. Weenie Cornutti, a slick, scum of the earth type gangster from way back in the day, stole a particular necklace created by one young artist who went by the name of Leonardo DaVinci, problem for our lads was, that this particular necklace had been created using some very dark mojo indeed.

Theobalds is a garden. A boy accompanies his father there to work.

A new pair of shoes leads to a nervous breakdown.

A broadcast classical concert brings together an estranged couple as memories of their shared past are stirred.

Comedy drama about a security guard who is destroyed by the building he is supposed to be guarding.

A young girl's uncle gives her a coin with the power to grant wishes.

Learn to read the fun way with Postman Pat in two lively animated stories: 'Postman Pat's Sleepy Days' and 'Postman Pat's Three Wishes'.

Graphic and disturbing degraded video signal experiment of faux snuff gore set to an industrial noise soundtrack.

A Scotland Against Drugs public information film.

What kind of world will the next generation of children be born into?

Unless we put an end to the thoughtless exploitation of our natural resources there will be nothing left for anyone...

The following group of films highlights the major environmental problems facing our planet today. In particular they focus on waste, pollution and energy use.

The following group of films highlights the major environmental problems facing our planet today. In particular they focus on waste, pollution and energy use.

Rembrandt van Rijn has been described as the greatest artist of the Dutch school of the Seventeenth Century. Thoughout his life he obsessively painted a series of self-portraits which now act as a visual autobiography.

Strange comedy, whereby aliens crashland on Earth.

At a strange houseparty, people don costumes and interact with one another in surreal ways.

A book opens up, revealing extinct and potentially endangered species.

A chicken and its coop are taken to a chicken factory, where horror awaits them.

Documentary about the eccentric sculpture artist Hazel Jones.

Visual poetry set to Christina Rossetti's sensuous poem of sisterly redemption

Cyberflake from Tokio Corporation - a short film that spoofs advertising. A strange head acts as the mascot for the synthetic cereal product.

This drawn animation portrays the growth cycle of plants and vegetables over a single season. It uses close-up shots throughout to convey detailed perspectives on the shapes and colours of the plants and seeds.

Ancient vampires preying on heroin addicts in Edinburgh. Lost for 20 years, the only remaining copy of Blood Junkies was recently found on a long forgotten cutting-copy video tape hidden in a crew member's attic. Missing a few reels, it is now finally available to stream - for free via Tartan Features.

Baby is a tiny doll who lives in the perpetually dark Niteworld. The only light place left is the theme park Welcomeworld, the creation of Baby's long lost father. Baby travels to see him and wreaks havoc with the help of her special powers, a supply of jelly beans and her mysterious friends. Can she destroy the ultra-powerful, mega-rich 'nice-guy-in-a-sweater'? This film takes place in a dystopian world slightly different from our own, where houses are made out of candy, Michael Jackson is an ice-cream man, and Reality TV stars face consequences for their actions.

Take the ultimate walk down Memory Lane as we visit the Newcastle Upon Tyne of yesteryear. Produced with the assistance of the Tyne and Wear Archive Service and using rare film footage from its splendid collection, this production presents a unique insight into the changing face of the city during the 20th Century.

Banaba is a remote and tiny island in the Pacific Ocean, about 50-miles South of the Equator, at the Western limit of the Republic of Kiribati. Once it was known as Ocean Island, named after ship that “discovered” it. Once it was the colonial capital of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and one of the British Empire’s richest sources of phosphate, the raw material for the fertiliser that enriched the soil of Australia and New Zealand. From 1900 to 1979, phosphate mining devastated Banaba, leaving a landscape of barren coral outcrops and rusting machinery. Most Banabans now live in Fiji, two thousand miles away from Banaba, on Rabi Island (pronounced ‘Rambi’) to which the British exiled them in 1945, after three years of intense suffering under Japanese occupation. In July 1997, a small group of Banabans and ex-miners made a return journey to the island that was once their home. This documentary tells the story.

Doug - a couch-based, self taught 'electrical engineer' - passes on some of his painfully won knowledge regarding the mystery of electricity. This is the filmmaker's Royal College of Art first-year film.

The story of two miners' wives who met and fell in love during the 1984 miners' strike. It provides a humorous and candid view of repression and freedom. With voice-over narration and considerable use of amateur film.

During the 1980s the Guatemalan army launched ruthless counter-insurgency campaigns against indigenous communities, killing or displacing thousands. This film documents the struggle of a group of Maya-Q’eqchi’ villages to reconstruct their communities and come to terms with their violent past.

Following a day in the life of Sneinton Market in Nottingham prior to a planned redevelopment.

Four women settle down to a game of poker. Throughout the evening in a heady atmosphere of alcohol, cards, bluffing and cheating, they each reveal more than the cards they hold.

An examination of sexuality and humiliation.

A drama which addresses the prescriptions of the Quran on "deviant" sexuality and its admonition that lesbians must be confined until their death.

Nicaragua is known for the Sandinista Revolution, an inspiring struggle for national liberation. What has never been told before is the story of how homosexuals, in the teeth of a machista Roman Catholic culture, battled for their own space inside the Revolution. What really happened when the Sandinistas found their soldiers and revolutionary comrades falling in love with the wrong sex?

This documentary looks at lesbian and gay participation in sport; the excitement, the sense of achievement, and the pressures of being "out" in the sporting world.

A kung fu spoof film from Yorkshire

Bondage in Belfast.

A saint in the city.

The Fractal Experience will introduce you to a new dimension of entertainment combining the awesome power of computers, ambient music and the fantastic world where chaos and order co-exist. There are two different versions of this film; both the UK and USA editions feature entirely different soundtracks from one another.

A magical, vivid and poetic exploration of damaged human relationships. Nine passengers on a train must confront their fears, solitude and emotional emptiness.

Seventeen-year-old Chris Needham is Loughborough's leading heavy-metal philosopher. He's putting together a band - but Manslaughter's bassist has no bass, the drummer can't play and Chris's mum says he's got to be in bed by nine o'clock. His confident public face often collapses, leaving him depressed, confiding in the video camera. Hilarious but touching, his diary is the inside story of so many bored and energetic youths who hang around the shopping arcades and dream of becoming rock stars.

Ed and his friends have a night out. While they are out his cartoon creations come to life causing mayhem.

Fading love affair between two women.

With a top speed of 100 mph, the hourly InterCity trains normally cover the 115 miles between the capital of East Anglia and London's Liverpool Street Station in well under 2 hours. One feature of note is the single line swing bridge built at the time of electrification to Norwich in 1987. It is one of only a handful of operational swing bridges in the world provided with overhead line equipment. Our InterCity express calls at Diss, Stowmarket and Ipswich. South of Ipswich, Anglia trains are joined by those of GER, and at Colchester by Clacton services - all squeezed onto just two tracks signalled for bi-directional working. Relief comes at Shenfield where the Southend lines provide an additional pair of tracks. With freight traffic to Felixstowe and Harwich a wide variety of trains rush past.

The line follows the coastal contours through Invergordon to Tain and heads inland via Lairg. After Rogart we pass through the long-since closed "Mound" station, still with it's platform for the Dornoch branch derelict but intact. We take a look at the remains of this erstwhile line and discover Dornoch station building still surviving. At Golspie the line became the "Duke of Sutherland's Railway" - one of the longest-ever privately built lines. Dunrobin Castle station is next on route. Here we learn a little about the Third Duke, from his great great grandson Lord Strathnaver. By the time the train reaches Helmsdale, the coast has become more rugged than ever. From there it proved absolutely impossible to drive the railway any furthe ralong the coast, so our "Sprinter" heads inland again, this time through the remote Strath of Kildonan for 25 miles to Forsinard. At least there is a road along the valley but from there to Georgemas the railway is quite alone. Filmed in 1991

Minutiae was made for the BBC 2 programme The Late Show, and was filmed in the same studio. The aim was to make an event-specific work that would contrast with the way the studio appeared on TV.

Some footage, interview answers, music & performance preexisting. With: Sepultura, Anthrax, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Thin Lizzy, Exodus, Death Angel and Testament.

Ex-'Eastenders' regular Mike Reid turns the air blue in this live stand-up set filmed at the Palladium in London's West End.

Live concert video filmed at Brixton Academy 1991 gig. Includes new commentary by Jim Bob and Fruitbat Surfin' USM Re-Educating Rita Midnight On The Murder Mile My Second To Last Will And Testament Rubbish Say It With Flowers A Prince In A Pauper's Grave Bloodsport For All Billy's Smart Circus A Perfect Day To Drop The Bomb This Is How It Feels Rent G.I. Blues Sheriff Fatman

The Terrance Higgins Trust released this strange animated PIF to cinemas in 1990 to promote safer sex.

A series of poetic images set to the lyrics of Paul Robeson’s "South In My Soul".

A woman drives her taxi round the streets of Glasgow and picks up a troubled man with whom she begins a conversation.

Counting's as easy as 1-2-3 with this fun video specially designed by expert animators and educationalists. With cartoons and humourous verses, numbers come to life from One Fat Hen to Ten Green Bottles.

Two women in chairs enjoy hypnotic induction.

‘Diary, a haunting short film by Peter Todd, crafter of poetic ruminations about ordinary life….just a camera trained on nondescript surroundings, made poignant by the soundtrack’s medley of voices and the director’s sensitivity to the layers of emotions that shape the most ordinary lives.’ Geoff Brown. The Times. 1998.‘Or different voices, still lives: Todd’s short is a poeticrather melancholy meditation on memory and the difficulty of expressing love, which counterpoints evocative images of London with a familial litany of questions and confessions. Moody and intriguing.’ Geoff Andrew. Time Out. 1998.