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  1. War of the Worlds, The (1953 Video)

    Director
    Byron Haskin
    Producer
    George Pal
    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    Film adaptation of H G Wells’ novel about the invasion of earth by Martians, which terrified American listeners in a radio dramatisation by Orson Welles in 1938.

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  2. Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1995 Video)

    Director
    Isaac Julien
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 70 minutes)

    Illustrates racism in the colonial and post-colonial worlds through the life of Frantz Fanon, a black intellectual who as a French citizen enlisted in fighting the Nazi regime, but his roots in Martinique...

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  3. Who’s out There? (1975 Video)

    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Sale (video - CCK), Videocassette. VHS. col. 29 min.

    Orson Welles is the host and star of this film. Concerns the theory, expressed by a number of scientists, that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. From the monstrous Mars life forms of his...

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  4. Jihad for Love, A (2008)

    Director
    Parvez Sharma
    Subject
    Religious studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 81 minutes), $12.48

    Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad, Islam today is the world’s second largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the...

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  5. 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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  6. Ghostwatch (2002)

    Subject
    Drama; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 91 minutes), £15.99

    This video release of BBC Television’s controversial Halloween special marks the first appearance of the programme in any media since its first and only transmission in 1992. So convincing was this...

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  7. F for Fake (1973 Video)

    Director
    Orson Welles
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 88 min., 1996 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Orson Welles’ quizzical homage to forgery and illusion - a journey through trickery, magic and deception which includes portrats of art forger Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving, author of a hoax Howard...

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  8. Invasion from Mars: Or How Orson Welles Panicked a Nation (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Neil Cameron
    Subject
    Media studies; Psychology; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    On 30 October 1938, the Orson Welles Mercury Theatre group enacted a version, by Howard Koch, of H.G. Wells, novel ‘War of the Worlds’. It was transmitted live at 8pm standard time throughout the USA on...

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  9. Science Communication and Public Engagement (2010)

    Subject
    Media studies; Science

    The adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel ‘The War of The Worlds’ in 1938 showed the power of radio to capture listeners’ imagination through science-fiction - and in doing so demonstrated how mass media...

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  10. 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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