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30s Britain Volume 2: North Sea (2006)

Director

John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 86 minutes), £12.99

Collection of films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘North Sea’ (1938) directed by Harry Watt. An Aberdeen trawler in trouble gets assistance from Wick coastguard radio station, operated by the GPO. The first...

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We Live in Two Worlds : Gpo Film Unit Volume 2 (2009)

Director

Len Lye; Harry Watt; Evelyn Spice; William Coldstream; Basil Wright; Stuart Legg; Alberto Cavalcanti; Norman McLaren; Lotte Reiniger; Pat Jackson; Humphrey Jennings; Richard Massingham

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 257 minutes), £24.99

The second of three double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit produced between 1936-1938. The collection is not just important in cinematic terms, but provides a valuable and...

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Night Mail/West Highland (2004)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 55 minutes), £19.99

A compilation of two classic films on steam trains

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Soviet Influence, The: Battleship Potemkin / Drifters (2012)

Director

Sergei Eisenstein; John Grierson

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 124 minutes), £19.99

The second in the BFI’s series looking at the influence of silent Soviet films on British filmmakers of the 1930s pairs Sergei Eisenstein’s 1929 film BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN) with John...

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New Britain, The (2013)

Director

Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Keene; Roy Boulting; Charles Hasse; John Page

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 79 minutes), £16.33

A collection of British wartime propaganda films made to boost optimism and showing how the armed forces and civilians stood up to the Nazi threat. THE NEW BRITAIN (1940). With great optimism, Britain...

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They Came to a City (1944)

Director

Basil Dearden

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (78 minutes), £14.99

Nine disparate Britons are transported to a mysterious city where, according to their class and disposition, they find themselves either in an earthly paradise of peace and equality or a hell starved of...

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Addressing the Nation: Gpo Film Unit Volume 1 (2008)

Director

Alberto Cavalcanti; Len Lye; Humphrey Jennings; Basil Wright

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £24.99

The first of three deluxe double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit on DVD for the first time. The complete collection includes legendary filmmakers such as John Grierson, Len...

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Soviet Influence, The: From Turksib to Nightmail (2011)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 163 minutes), £19.99

In the early 1930s, a small number of Soviet propaganda films were shown in Britain that excited filmmakers such as John Grierson, Paul Rotha and Basil Wright - luminaries of the British documentary film...

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Britain in the Thirties (1939 Video)

aka: British Avant-Garde: The Thirties

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. silent/sound. 177 min., 2000 sale: £19.99 (inclusive)

A compilation of short British avant-garde films from the 1930s - a decade marked by both the birth of British realism, and a surrealist influence from Europe.

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