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American Wartime Newsreel (1916 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A typical issue of an American newsreel during World War 1. It includes an interview with Hudson Maxim, inventor of the machine-gun and smokeless powder, a War Savings Stamp appeal and scenes in a...

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Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013)

Director

Mike Lerner; Maxim Pozdorovkin

Subject

Politics & government; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £12.99

PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER is a documentary about the Russian punk rock group and feminist collective. In February 2012 three members of band performed at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour where they...

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Strike (1924)

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Subject

Film studies; Russian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £24.99 (MM) £19.99 (E)

Sergei Eisenstein’s first film, portraying a 1912 strike of factory workers which is brutally put down by the authorities. The version released in 2012 by Moviemail in the Classic Russian Cinema series is...

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Battleship Potemkin (1925 Video)

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Subject

History; Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale (video - retail), Videocassette. VHS. sd (music only). b&w. 70 min.

Feature film reconstructing the events which took place in the town of Odessa during the Social Democratic movement of 1905-1907.

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Miss Mend (1926)

aka: Miss Mend, An Adventure Serial in Three Parts

Director

Boris Barnet

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 285 minutes), 35.95 Euros

Silent film produced in Russia in 1926 with the goal of rivalling the most entertaining American movies of the 1920s. It features stunning location photography and impressive stunt scenes: horse, car and...

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Science of Aviation, The: A History (11 Parts) (1983 Video)

Director

Ken Wrench

Producer

Ken Wrench

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23, 27, 23, 28, 26, 26, 29, 32, 30, 37, 35 min.

Part 1 (1983): An introduction to the series. Aristotle’s view of air motion over bodies. The work of Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo. Newton’s mechanics and his application of the momentum principle to...

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This Working Life: Tales from the Shipyard (2011)

Subject

Engineering; Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 314 minutes), £24.99

This 2-disc box set, the second release in the BFI’s This Working Life series, features 23 films made between 1898 and 1974. The collection contains over five hours of material that portrays our...

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