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Advance on the Eastern Front

Date released

29 Mar 1916

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

240-1

NoS ID

125578

Story no

4 / 5

[SUBTITLE]: "Russia having replenished her ammunition supply is carrying on a great offensive on the Eastern Front. Gunners setting fuses of shrapnel shells previous to their being fired." Single shot of...

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Antigone (1986)

Director

Don Taylor

Subject

Classical studies; Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 110 minutes), $7.49 (MediaOutlet)

A modern translation by Don Taylor of Sophacles’ tragedy depicting the individual conscience in conflict with tyranny. Antigone (Juliet Stevenson), the daughter of Oedipus, defies a royal edict when one of...

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Centrepoint (1990 Television)

Director

Piers Haggard

Producer

Frank Rosso; Joanna Smith

Four-part television thriller by Nigel Williams which loosely retells the Hamlet story set in London’s Docklands at the time of its commercial development. Roland (Firth) lives with his mother Maria...

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Mountain Guns

Date released

23 Jun 1915

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

200-1

NoS ID

125278

Story no

5 / 5

[SUBTITLE]: "The 75 mm mountain gun using smokeless powder and discharging shrapnel. This light artillery is used by the Serbians." A man (British?) demonstrates gun a number of times to Serbian officers,...

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Professional Foul (1977 Video)

Director

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Special loan to Consortium members only, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 80 min.

The play by Tom Stoppard.

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Hamlet Within (2022 Film)

aka: Hamlet Revenant

Director

Ken McMullen

Producer

Ken McMullen

An essay film, part fiction and part documentary, that explores how Hamlet haunts audiences and the play’s characters, drawing on the work of Marx and Derrida among others.

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England, My England: The Story of Henry Purcell (2010)

Director

Tony Palmer

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 152 minutes), £13.49

A dramatisation of the life and times of Henry Purcell. Little is known about the enigmatic composer, but director Tony Palmer makes up for this by contextualising his story in late 17th Century England, and...

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Hamlet (1992 Television)

Series

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

Director

Natalia Orlova

Producer

Dave Edwards

The story in an animated version. All the lines spoken by the characters are Shakespeare’s own. Narrated by Michael Kitchen.

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King Lear (1987 Television)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Chris Hunt

Producer

Chris Hunt

Television anthology arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg. Programme on the staging of King Lear around a rehearsal in the National Theatre of David Hare’s production with Anthony Hopkins in the title...

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Measure for Measure (1994 Radio)

Director

Peter Kavanagh

Radio adaptation of Measure for Measure by Peter Kavanagh with Ronald Pickup as the Duke and Saskia Reeves as Isabella.

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