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Quest (2017)

Director

Jonathan Olshefski

Subject

American Studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 105 minutes), $295.00

Filmed with vérité intimacy over the course of nearly a decade, Quest is the portrait of the Rainey family living in North Philadelphia. Beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency, Quest Rainey and his...

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Louis Theroux - The Collection (2007)

Subject

Media studies; Social sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 750 minutes), £7.99

4-disc set offering a selection of episodes from Theroux’s critically acclaimed series Weird Weekends; When Louis Met ... and Louis And... The Louis Met episodes include interviews with MP Neil Hamilton...

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Bible’s Buried Secrets, The (2011)

Producer

Emily Jarvis; Rob Cowling

Subject

Archaeology; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

Hebrew scholar Francesca Stavrakopoulou examines how recent archaeological discoveries are changing the way stories from The Bible are interpreted and how these, in turn, are forcing a re-assessment of the...

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Canterbury Tales, The (Animated) (2001)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 mins each part), £9.49 each

An animated series of the tales made for television, offering the opportunity to hear an authentic Middle English version as well as a modern English version of the same text. Jonathan Myerson’s adaptation...

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Leader, His Driver, And the Driver’s Wife, The (1991 Video)

Director

Nicholas Broomfield

Producer

Nicholas Broomfield; Rita Oord

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 72 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Shows what happens when the apparently awkward Nick Broomfield tries to make a film about the white right-wing neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement and its leader Eugene Terreblanche. Broomfield lulls his...

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Norte, The End of History (2014)

Director

Lav Diaz

Subject

Film studies; Literature; Philosophy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 250 minutes), £8.69

In the northern Philippine province of Luzon, a law-school dropout commits a horrific double murder; a gentle family man takes the fall and receives a life sentence, leaving behind a wife and two kids. A...

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Films of Charles & Ray Eames (Volume 2) (1953 Video)

Subject

Design

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 51 minutes), $12.50

Charles and Ray Eames are among the finest designers of the 20th century. They are best known for their contributions to architecture, furniture design, industrial design and manufacturing. The legacy of...

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Some of the Palestinians (1976 Film)

Director

Mamoun Hassan

Producer

Myrtle Winter Chaumeny

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the lifestyle of a number of Palestinian refugees, including a doctor working in a busy clinic near Aleppo, a bereaved wife who explains how her family were recently killed in an attack on a camp in...

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Pierre Bonnard (1984)

aka: Pierre Bonnard: Les Aventures du Nerf Optique

Director

Didier Baussy-Oulianoff

Producer

Didier Baussy-Oulianoff

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes), £14.95

A study of the French post-impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) exploring the rooms of the house where he lived for many years with his wife and model, seen in many of his paintings. Reveals him...

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Number 24 Beizongbu Hutong: Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin’s Former Residence (2009)

Subject

Architecture; Geography

This documentary displays the dilapidated state of the former 20th Century hutong residence of Mr. Liang Sicheng and his wife Ms. Lin Huiyin in Beijing. The couple were among China’s most famous art and...

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