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Space Race Films 1957-1965 (2006)

Subject

History; Media studies; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 75 minutes), $9.99

14 films, including advertisements, newsreels, depicting the struggle between the US and the USSR to achieve supremacy in space

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Henry IV (1995 Television)

Series

Performance

Director

John Caird

Producer

Annie Castledine

BBC screen adaptation by John Caird which compresses both parts of Henry IV into a three-hour television drama focusing on the father/son relationships in the plays.

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DÉmocratie, Democracy (26 Parts) (1998 Video)

Director

Robert Darnton; Olivier Duhamel

Producer

Yvon Gérault

Subject

French studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (SECAM only). col. 26 x 26 min., 1999 sale: 90F or 13.72 euros each part

Series exploring aspects of democrary, based on texts by French and American intellectuals.

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Great Events of the 20th Century (1999 Video)

aka: Greatest Events of the 20th Century, The

Subject

History

Distribution

DVD

A collection of newsfilm covering 101 newsworthy events of the 20th century. Items are: 1) Opening credits; 2) Queen Victoria’s funeral; 3) Wright brothers’ first flight; 4) Suffragette dies under...

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Tromeo & Juliet (1996 Film)

aka: Tromeo and Juliet

Director

Lloyd Kaufmann; James Gunn

Producer

Lloyd Kaufmann; Michael Herz

A low-budget, punk rock, exploitation, B film based on Romeo and Juliet and set in modern Manhattan. Filmed in Troma style with much gratuituous violence, it exhibits a healthy disregard for taste and comes...

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William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1950 Film)

aka: Julius Caesar

Director

David Bradley (2)

Producer

David Bradley (2); Owen Davis; Robert Keigher

Independent film adaptation of the play filmed on 16mm. Samuel Crowl (see review citation) believes the film to be like watching ` an experimental, fringe theatre company performance of Shakespeare where our...

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Richard the Third, The Tragedy of (1983 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Series

BBC Television Shakespeare

Director

Jane Howell

Producer

Shaun Sutton

Television production with Ron Cook in the title role.

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Campanadas a Medianoche (1966 Film)

aka: Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight

Director

Orson Welles

Producer

Emiliano Piedra

The story of Falstaff’s friendship with Prince Hal, and his rejection when the Prince becomes King, adapted chiefly from Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts I and II, but also Richard II, Henry V and The Merry...

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Extreme Engineering: Season 1 (2007)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 5 x 55 minutes), $49.95

This selection of programmes from the first series of EXTREME ENGINEERING unveils some of the most ambitious architectural plans of our times. Some are theoretical, others are in the works. Computer...

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Richard III (1965 Television)

Series

Wars of the Roses, The

Director

Robin Midgley; Michael Hayes; Peter Hall; John Barton

Producer

Michael Barry

Last of a three-part televised adaptation of Shakespeare’s minor tetralogy (three parts of Henry VI and Richard III). Originally a Royal Shakespeare Company production directed by Peter Hall and John...

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