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Christian Boltanski (1994 Video)

Director

Gerald Fox

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2000 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

The French artist Christian Boltanski (b.1944) is acclaimed for his installations, which often combine an exploration of his own biography wity the European legacy of the Holocaust. The film presents a...

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Mondrian in New York (1979 Film)

Director

Piet Hoenderdos

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Traces the experience of Piet Mondrian in New York, where he lived from 1940 until his death in 1944. Uses old newsreels to create a picture of New York during the war. Six people close to the artist...

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Complete Humphrey Jennings, The: Volume Three: A Diary for Timothy (2013)

Director

Humphrey Jennings

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 218 minutes), £19.99

This is the third and final volume of the British Film Institute’s Dual Format (DVD and Blu-ray) releases that collect the complete directorial output of Humphrey Jennings. It includes the films he made...

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One Continuous Take: The Kay Mander Story (2010)

Director

Kay Mander; Adele Carroll

Subject

Film & television production; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 251 minutes), £20.41

A two-disc retrospective on documentary filmmaker Kay Mander, featuring ten of her films from the 1940s along with Dr Adele Carroll’s 2001 film featuring Kay Mander, at home in Kirkcudbrightshire,...

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Good Design - And Good Business: The Council of Industrial Design, 1944-1972 (1997 Multimedia)

Subject

Design

Distribution

Sale, 24 slides., 2000 sale: £25.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Images from the Design Council Slide Collection recording the range of activities through which its predecessor, the Council of Industrial Design (CoID), sought to fulfil its mission to ‘promote by all...

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Fishermen at War: Atlantic Trawler (1941)

Director

Ivan Scott; Frank Sainsbury; J.B. Holmes; Frank Elton

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 63 minutes), £16.33

War-time documentaries about the dangers faced in the Atlantic by merchant seamen on convoys and the contribution made to the war effort by all civilian seamen. SAILORS WITHOUT UNIFORM (1940) - The lives...

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Edvard Munch (1976 Video)

Director

Peter Watkins

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 211 minutes), £19.99

A dramatised documentary which studies the formative years of the Expressionist painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944). The non-professional cast creates a convincing portrait of Oslo’s bohemian and bourgeois...

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D-Day (1944 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A special issue of the German National Socialist Workers’ Party newsreel on resistance to the D-Day landings (June 1944).

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Témoins de la Libération de Paris, Les, Et 20 Ans en Août 1944: Deux Films de Jorge Amat

Director

Lorenzo Alvary

Subject

French studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), 15 Euros

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Who Shall Live and Who Shall die? (1982 Film)

Director

Laurence Jarvik

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The story of the political battle that took place in the United States to prevent the extermination of the Jews during World War 2. From the Evian Conference of 1938 the Jewish question was a prime political...

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