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  1. Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town (2013)

    Director
    Paul Elston
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

    Television documentary. Cambridge Professor of Classics, Mary Beard, presents new insights into the lives of the people who lived and died in Pompeii, based on the discovery of 54 skeletons in a cellar in...

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  2. Lady Chatterley (1993)

    Director
    Ken Russell
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 210 minutes), £19.99

    Adaptation in four parts of DH Lawrence’s famous story, using all three versions of the text, from controversial writer/director Ken Russell. In recounting the familiar details of young, bored Lady...

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  3. Reduced Shakespeare Company: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2002 Video)

    aka: Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

    Director
    Paul Kafno
    Producer
    Paul Kafno

    A special video performance of the theatrical hit that playfully spoofs Shakespeare. The three actors of the Reduced Shakespeare Company draw on their classical (and clown school) training to squeeze all 37...

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  4. Code Breaker: The Alan Turing Story (2013)

    aka: Codebreaker: The Alan Turing Story

    Director
    Clare Beavan
    Subject
    Drama; Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £15.99

    Docudrama directed by Clare Beavan that explores the life of British mathematician Alan Turing and the events that led up to his death in 1954, when he ate an apple laced with cyanide following his...

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  5. Great British Story: A People’s History (2012)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 480 minutes), £25.99

    Eight part BBC series which traces the history of the British people from the bottom up and from a regional perspective. Wood’s approach is community-based - he is helped by local groups and communities...

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  6. Press

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 345 minutes), £17.99

    Set in the offices of two competing newspaper outlets- broadsheet, The Herald, and tabloid, The Post- this BBC drama series follows journalists at each paper as they face up to the uncertainties of an...

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  7. Shakespeare: The King’s Man (2012 Video)

    Director
    Steven Clarke
    Producer
    Steven Clarke

    American scholar James Shapiro examines the plays Shakespeare wrote during the turbulent reign of Elizabeth’s successor, King James I. One of the new king’s first official acts was to name Shakespeare a...

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  8. Dig for Victory (2006)

    Subject
    Agriculture; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £16.99

    A documentary about Britain’s ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign of the Second World War. Launched in 1939, the campaign encouraged men, women and children to cultivate their gardens, local parks and...

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  9. Educating Rita (1983 Film)

    Director
    Lewis Gilbert
    Producer
    Lewis Gilbert

    Feature film about a hairdresser (Walters) who, against the wishes of her family, enrols on a literature course at the Open University. Her tutor (Caine) is a disillusioned, heavy drinking middle-aged man...

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  10. Armistice: The Endgame of World War One

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £12.99

    Professor David Reynolds takes a fresh look at the events and personalities involved in the Armistice which brought the First World war to an end in 1918. In a journey that takes him through command centres...

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