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A recruitment film for the Home Guard. (`It might make Hitler think twice’). A Home Guard officer in a village pub talks to his friends about his week at a Home Guard training school. He describes the...
Television serial, in seven parts, based on the Balkan and Levant trilogies, Olivia Manning’s autobiographical accounts of her travels with her husband Reggie Smith between 1939 and 1943. Together for the...
Feature film adapted from Michael Gilbett’s 1952 novel ‘Death in Captivity’, based on his experiences as a POW in Italy during the Second World War. In the book the play being produced is Rudolf...
Video recording of Suleyman al-Bassam’s play performed at the Tokyo International Arts Festival. The play borrows from Shakespeare’s plot to create a poetic and powerful critique of contemporary...
War film melodrama on the theme of heroism and celebration of empire based on the novel by A.E.W. Mason. Henry Faversham, son of a war hero, resigns his military commission just before his company is to...
A detailed examination of the nature of this Shakespearean tragedy given its rare feature of having two central characters.
Recording of a lecture by Gregor Moder (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) looking at Ernst Lubitsch’s 1942 wartime satire TO BE OR NOT TO BE (qv), analysing how it uses speeches from Shakespeare’s...
A performance by the San Francisco Ballet of The Tempest choreographed by Michael Smuin; music by Seiko Chihara after Purcell. Directed for stage by Emile Ardolino.The programme is hosted by Gene Kelly and...
The 2017 series of Shakespeare lectures concludes with an exploration of one of the Bard’s early comedies.
Documentary on the lives and deaths of Bosko Brkic and Admira Ismic, a young Serbian man and Muslim woman who died in each others arms on May 19 1993 after being shot by snipers during the Serbo-Croat civil...
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