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Sacred Music (2010)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 330 minutes), £24.99

Four-part documentary series in which actor and former chorister Simon Russell Beale explores the flowering of Western sacred music. Featuring music performed by members of the award-winning choir The...

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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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Lar Lubovitch’s Othello (1997 Television, Video)

aka: Othello

Series

Dance in America

Producer

Judy Flannery; Matthew Diamond

Ballet in three acts produced by the American Ballet Theatre and San Francisco Ballet in collaboration with the Lar Lubovich Dance Company. The videotape held by Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) was recorded...

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Winter’s Tale, The (1982 Radio)

Director

Martin Jenkins (2)

Producer

Martin Jenkins (2)

Full-length radio adaptation of the play produced in stereo by Martin Jenkins. With Ronald Pickup as Leontes and Hannah Gordon as Hermione, John Gielgud is Time. Music composed by David Timson and sung by...

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Comedy of Errors, The (1978 Television, Video)

Director

Philip Casson; Trevor Nunn

A re-staging for television by Philip Casson of Trevor Nunn’s 1976 RSC stage production. Blends slapstick, song and dance to exuberant effect and popular acclaim. The production features music by composer...

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Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928)

aka: Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, La

Director

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Subject

Film studies; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes), £17.99

Carl Th. Dreyer’s 1928 film follows the final days of the eponymous heroine as she undergoes the debasement and interrogation that accompanies her trial for charges of heresy, followed by imprisonment and...

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Love is All (2015)

Director

Kim Longinotto

Subject

Film studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 74 minutes), £19.99

A documentary film exploring the depiction of love and courtship on film throughout the 20th century composed of archive material from the BFI National Archive, Yorkshire Film Archive and other sources. The...

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Skirt Through History, A (1994 Video)

Director

Kate Broome; Philippa Lowthorpe; Deborah Wignall; Penny Woolcock

Subject

History; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £1,170

A drama-documentary series on the lives of ten extraordinary women told through their writings, which offer a woman’s view of history. 1 (director Philippa Lowthorpe): Anne Lister was born in 1791 and...

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Macbeth (1997 Radio)

Series

Performance on 3

Producer

Graham Vick

Verdi’s opera in a new production by Graham Vick.Renato Bruson and Maria Guleghina are the Macbeths. The Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala are conducted by Riccardo Muti.

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Night Mail (Remastered and Restored) (1936)

Director

Harry Watt; Basil Wright

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 24 minutes (BFI + 92 minutes extras)), £15.99 (BFI) £19.99 (Panamint)

One of the most critically acclaimed and iconic films produced within the British documentary movement, NIGHT MAIL tells the story of the travelling post office from Euston to Glasgow and the men who worked...

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