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King Arthur (1995 Video)

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. VHS. col. 212 min.

Video recording using a single camera of a performance co-produced by the Théâtre du Ch‚telet and the Thé‚tre de Caen of ‘King Arthur’, a semi-opera with music by Henry Purcell and libretto by John...

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Wolf Hall (2015)

Director

Peter Kosminsky

Subject

Drama; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 6x50 mins), £10.99

Boxed set of the six-part adaptation of the award winning novels by Hilary Mantel. - Wolf Hall and Bring Out the Bodies. Set in the period 1500 to 1535, the serial is a fictionalised biography documenting...

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Henry VIII (2003)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £19.99

Two-part television drama depicting the life of King Henry VIII, his tempestuous 38 year reign and his fraught relationships with his many wives. In the first part, Henry is desperate to produce a son and...

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Man for All Seasons, A (1966)

Director

Fred Zinnemann

Producer

Fred Zinnemann

Subject

Drama; History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £19.99

A film based on Robert Bolt’s play about Sir Thomas More’s personal conflict when King Henry VIII asks his support in breaking with Rome and forming the Church of England.

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David Starkey’s the Six Wives of Henry VIII (2003)

aka: Six Wives of Henry VIII, The

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 195 minutes), £19.99

Historian David Starkey tells the stories of the women who married Henry VIII, revealing in intimate detail their experiences of sex, childbirth and the glamorous, dangerous life at court, including the...

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Shakespeare Audiotapes, Series

The pre-recorded programmes in this series combine academic criticism and actors’ rehearsals of key scenes and speeches. The scenes rehearsed on the second side of the tapes are directed by John Russell...

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David Starkey - Monarchy Series 1 (2007)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 219 minutes), £19.99

The first series of Dr David Starkey’s programmes examining the British monarchy and its relationship with its subjects over the centuries. He begins in the Dark Ages with Alfred the Great and goes up to...

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Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547 (2003)

aka: Glory of Gothic, The

Subject

Architecture; Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £19.99

An introduction to the art of late medieval England and the early years of the Renaissance. This is the age of the Hundred Years’ War, the Wars of the Roses and the early Tudors. Under kings from Henry IV...

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Britain in Colour in the 1930s (2011)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £14.99

This release features a collection of short films and newreels from the Pathé Pictorial archive which were colourised using hand stencilling techniques. The featured films are as follows: A SHROPSHIRE GEM,...

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Face to Face (2009)

Subject

Art; Film studies; History; Literature; Media studies; Politics & government; Psychiatry

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1050 minutes), £128.00

All 35 episodes of the landmark FACE TO FACE series hosted by former politician John Freeman, broadcast between 1959-1962. Featuring guests from all backgrounds, the interview technique was insightful,...

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