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Above the Clouds

Date released

15 Dec 1917

Series name

War Office Official Topical Budget and Pictorial News

Issue no

329-2

NoS ID

126349

Story no

1 / 5

[SUBTITLE]: "Evolutions by our intrepid airmen 12,000 feet from terra firma."

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First Emperor of China, The (1989 Video)

Director

Tony Ianzelo; Lui Hao Xue

Producer

Pan Han Ci; Barrie Howells

Subject

Archaeology; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 42 minutes), £12.99

Historical drama chronicling the life of Qin Shihuang, the founder and first emperor of China. Includes the first documentary footage of Qin’s life-sized terra cotta army, constructed for his tomb some...

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Che Cosa Sona le Nuvole? (1968 Film)

aka: Capriccio All’Italiana

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Producer

Dino De Laurentis

Fiction short. Filmed in in March and April, 1967, as an episode for CAPRICCIO ALL’ ITALIANA. Pasolini transforms Shakespeare’s Othello into a laconic Italian puppet-show comedy with live marionettes...

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The Terra Nova Returns Home

Date released

18 Jun 1913

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

95-1

NoS ID

124904

[SUBTITLE]: "Captain Scott’s ship met at Cardiff by Lady Scott and her little son Peter."

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Diya (2002)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC, 55 minutes), £50.00 +VAT +p&p

A diya is a small terra cotta oil lamp used throughout India in Hindu ceremonies. The film follows the life history of an object through the every day experience of people who make, sell and use it in the...

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My Voyage to Italy

Subject

Film & television production; Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 246 minutes), £7.99

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese gained great inspiration from the Italian films he watched in his youth and others that made an impact later on in his life, changing the way he made films. My Voyage To Italy...

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Planets, The (1999)

Producer

David McNab

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 400 minutes), £34.99

An account of space exploration and discovery from the first attempts to magnify the sky to space travel. Contains computer-created footage, actual footage shot from spacecraft and archive film. Narrated by...

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Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Das (1970 Film)

aka: Dorian Gray Picture of Dorian Gray, The

Director

Massimo Dallamano

Producer

Harry Alan Towers

Feature film adapted from the novel by Oscar Wilde but conceived as a sexploitation film and moral statement on London decadence in the 1960s. Self-absorbed and beautiful Dorian Gray (Berger) falls in love...

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Birdwatchers (2010)

aka: (Terra Degli Uomini Rossi, La

Director

Marco Bechis

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 108 minutes), £15.99

A drama in which a group of indigenous people face off against the modern day owners of their ancestral homeland.In Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the farming classes lead a wealthy and leisurely existence....

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Great White Silence, The (1924)

Director

Herbert G Ponting

Subject

Film studies; Geography; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 110 minutes), £19.99

Henry Ponting’s extraordinary official record of Captain Scott’s legendary final expedition to the South Pole, fully restored by the BFI National Archive, with a new musical score by Simon Fisher Turner,...

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