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World in Arms, A (3 Parts) (2005)

aka: War Against Napoleon - A War in Arms

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 147 minutes), £14.99

A 3-part television series depicting the story of the war between Britain and France under Napoleon Bonaparte. It was the first ‘world war’ - as empires clashed, five million people died in fighting that...

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Queen of Spades, The (1948)

Director

Thorold Dickinson

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £15.99

This atmospheric suspense thriller, one of the finest British films of the forties, is based on a short story by Pushkin. Anton Walbrook stars as Russian army captain Herman Suvorin, who secretly covets the...

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Keep Smiling Through (2002)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 90 minutes), £12.99

Second programme in the series BRITAIN’S HOME FRONT, covering the period 1942-43. In the Summer of 1940 Britain braced itself for invasion and and endured nightly horrors of the London Blitz. The invasion...

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Great War, The, Series (1964 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £ 99

A definitive history of the 1914-1918 war, narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave and employing the voice skills of other leading actors including Sir Ralph Richardson (as Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig) and...

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Black Watch (2009)

Director

John Tiffany

Subject

Drama; Military Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £29.99

The BBC TV production of the National Theatre of Scotland’s topical play, first performed at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival. Hurtling from a pool room in Fife to an armoured wagon in Iraq, BLACK WATCH is...

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Richard II (1960 Audio)

Complete performance with John Gielgud as Richard II and Keith Michell as Bolinbroke,

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Night Will Fall (2014)

Director

André Singer

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £19.99

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had...

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New Europeans (1999 Video)

aka: Dance of the People

Director

Eglantine Charbonnier; Sara Miranda; Andrew Pallett; Liv Weisberg

Producer

Colin Prescod

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 2 x 50 min., 2000 sale: £6.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

An video-based resource pack with four 25-minute films made by young Europeans on the subject of anti-racism and broadcast under the series title LA DANSE DES PEUPLES/DANCE OF THE PEOPLE. The films reflect a...

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Richard II (1961 Radio)

Director

John Richmond

Producer

John Richmond

Radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced by John Richmond starring John Gielgud as Richard II and Ralph Richardson as John of Gaunt. With music composed and conducted by John Hotchkis. Richard Bebb...

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Dunsinane (2011 Radio)

Series

Drama on 3

Director

Roxana Silbert

Producer

David Ian Neville

Radio drama. As sequel to Macbeth, its narrative is formed by the events following the defeat of Macbeth by Malcolm and an English army in the Battle of Dunsinane. In Greig’s version, Lady Macbeth is known...

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