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Great Authors: George Eliot (2004)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), (not yet released)

This 2-part DVD set explores the life, times and work of George Eliot, a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexual, religious and social rules of Victorian...

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Famous Friends (2001)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 92 min), £15.99 inclusive

A compilation of six films made by British Transport Films between 1952 and 1962. Volume 6 in the series.

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Nameless Star, A (2003)

aka: Bezymyannaya Zvezda

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 130 minutes), $25.00

Based on the 1943 stage play, "Steaua Fara Nume" by Romanian Jewish writer Iosef Hechter, writing under the pen name Mihail Sebastian (1907-1945). This version was made for television in 1978, but there was...

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South Bank Show: Vol.1: Ken Russell (2012)

Director

Ken Russell

Subject

Film studies; Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 500 minutes), £29.99

Compilation of the eight films made by Ken Russell between 1983 and 2002 for The South Bank Show, on Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, Elgar, a portrait of the widows of four British composers, a found-footage...

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Red, White and Zero (1967)

Director

Lindsay Anderson; Peter Brook; Tony Richardson

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £14.99

A portmanteau feature composed of three shorts, RIDE OF THE VALKYRIE, THE WHITE BUS AND TED AND BLUE. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer navigating the London transport network as he attempts...

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Oskar Fischinger, Volume 1 (2003)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 33 minutes), £17.99

Oskar Fischinger discovered cinema at the age of 20 from the German avant-garde animators (Eggeling, Richter and Ruttman) and began his own visual experiments in 1921. From 1929 to 1934 he composed his...

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Epic of Everest, The (2014)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 88 minutes), £19.99

The 1924 Everest expedition culminated in the deaths of two of the finest climbers of their generation, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, and sparked an ongoing debate over whether or not they did indeed...

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King of Jazz, The (1930)

Director

Thomas Anderson Murray

Subject

American Studies; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 98 minutes), $31.96; $23.96

Made during the early years of the movie musical, this was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then...

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Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi (2014)

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science; Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 179 minutes), £29.99 (inclusive)

Two of the three films from the Qatsi trilogy. They are cinematic essays on the impact of technological progress on the earth and its peoples, set to scores by Philip Glass. The photographic effects,...

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Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy (3 Parts) (2005)

aka: Trilogy on Tibet, A

Subject

Philosophy; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 56, 129, 52 minutes), £21.95

A digitally remastered reissue of the seminal trilogy of films on Tibet originally released in 1979, now on one DVD and containing additional materials and a new commentary.The trilogy portrays the unbroken...

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