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1066: A Year to Conquer England (2017)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.99

Three part drama-documentary series about the events of 1066 presented by Dan Snow, who paints a picture of the events leading up to the battle of Hastings, events which saw the Anglo-Saxon world swept...

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Francesco’s Shakespeare (2006)

aka: Shakespeare in Italy

Nowhere fired Shakespeare’s Imagination quite like Italy. But as Francesco Da Mosto argues in this new two part series, Italian cities meant far more to our greatest author than just a sunlit setting....

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First World War, The: An Historical Insight (2013)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £19.99

This series is a companion piece to the book by Hew Stachan, and chronicles the global conflict that helped shape the twentieth century.

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Sons and Lovers (2003) (2003)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 193 minutes), £19.99

Television adaptation by Simon Burke of DH Lawrence’s autobiographical novel of a young artist torn between his mother and his love for two women.

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Vanity Fair (1967) (2004)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 219 minutes), £24.99

Classic BBC TV adaptation of Thackeray’s novel directed by David Giles, with Susan Hampshire taking the role of Becky Sharp.

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Britain’s Bloody Crown (2016)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £16.99

Historian Dan Jones tells the story of the Wars of the Roses.

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Turn of the Screw, The (2000)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 92 minutes), £12.99

A television adaptation by Nick Dear of the Henry James novella, in which a governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.

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Educating Rita (1983 Video)

Director

Lewis Gilbert

Producer

Lewis Gilbert

Subject

Drama

Distribution

DVD

Based on Willy Russell’s play, the comedy follows a working-class girl on an Open University literature course.

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World War 1 in Colour (2003)

aka: World War I in Colour

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 312 minutes), £24.99

Using rare archive footage from sources around the World, including the Imperial War Museum, this six part series has been painstakingly colourised using the latest computer-aided technology.

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Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty: The Plantagenets (2014)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £7.99

Historian Dan Jones presents his account of the early Plantagenets, beginning with Henry II and culminating with Richard II.

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