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Charles Dickens’s England (2009)

Subject

English language and literature; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 290 minutes), £17.99

In CHARLES DICKENS’S ENGLAND , Derek Jacobi takes the viewer around the most important places, towns and cities that were the inspiration to some of the most famous settings in literature. The DVD features...

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Masters of Jewellery 2008 (2010)

Subject

Crafts; Design

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 220 minutes), £162.00

A series of programmes about the jewellers behind the most exquisite, multi-million-dollar collections of flawless stones, meticulous cuts and virtuoso craft. Interviews with the world’s most famous and...

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Blue Collar (1978)

Director

Paul Schrader

Subject

American Studies; Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (109 minutes), £15.99

After writing TAXI DRIVER for Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader made his directorial debut with this little-known drama about life on the factory floor of a Detroit car manufacturing plant. The film is one of...

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Spring Re-Loaded 2 (8 Parts) (1996)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Out of distribution

Recordings of contemporary dance performances from the 1995 Spring Loaded season held at The Place theatre, London. The two-camera live-mix version does not interpret the work but does capture the...

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Heat and Dust (1983)

aka: Heat & Dust

Director

James Ivory

Subject

History; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 130 minutes), £19.99

A young historical researcher, inherits letters written by her great aunt Olivia and becomes obsessed with their revelations of her past in colonial India. Flitting between the present-day and the 1920s, the...

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Battle of the Somme (1916 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 132 minutes), £19.56

Battle of the Somme is a pioneering battlefield documentary that was seen by huge audiences in the UK when it was released in August 1916, barely a month after the events it depicted. Cinema-goers hailed it...

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Winston Churchill Documentaries

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 112 minutes), $48.70

A pack consisting of a four Golden Age TV documentaries, 13 hours of audio recordings of speeches & broadcasts, including all his World War II broadcasts in their entirety, packed into 58 MP3s, plus a 105...

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My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Director

Stephen Frears

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 97 minutes), £14.99

Feature film. Stephen Frears’ film about Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a son of a Pakistani immigrant, who embarks on a venture to renovate his uncle’s laundrette with the help of his childhood friend,...

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Maria Lassnig - Animation Films (2009)

Subject

Art; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0), 28/80 euros

Maria Lassnig trained at the academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and then spent several years in Paris in the 1950s and 60s, where she was exposed to Art Informel and Surrealism. From 1968 to 1980, she lived in...

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Margaret Tait: Film Maker (1983)

Director

Margaret Williams

Producer

Fiz Oliver

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 35 minutes), £50.00

This portrait of the film-maker Margaret Tait includes extracts from many of her productions. In interview with video artist Tamara Krikorian, Tait talks about her introduction to the cinema in Italy and her...

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