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Miners Leaving Pendlebury Colliery (1901)
A black miner makes an intriguing addition to an already captivating film of coal workers up from their pit. Showman Albert Sedgwick, conspicuously raffish in homburg and moustache, bestrides and controls this film. Sedgwick has...
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Early Gay Pride demonstration - London 1971
Extract from London 1971 (Phil Munnoch). Watch the complete film free on BFI Player (UK only) Explore LGBT
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Moral Math of Robots: Can Life and Death Decisions Be Coded?
A self-driving car has a split second to decide whether to turn into oncoming traffic or hit a child who has lost control of her bicycle. An autonomous drone needs to decide whether to risk the lives of busload of civilians or lose a...
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Jack Johnson Paying a Visit to the Manchester Docks (1911)
The legendary world heavyweight boxing champion, John Arthur 'Jack' Johnson, visits Manchester. The charisma of world heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson is palpable in these shots of his visit to Manchester. In the build-up to his...
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Ray Bradbury on Madmen
"Nobody else is going to give a damn what you're doing, so you need a few other people like yourself" - Ray Bradbury as told to two college kids on road trip in 1972 In the autumn of 2012, Lisa Potts rediscovered -- literally, behind her...
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Aldous Huxley on Technodictators
"If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled" - Aldous Huxley Interview by Mike Wallace on May 18, 1958, from the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin "This is Aldous...