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  1. Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact (1985 Film, Video)

    Director
    Michael Blackwood
    Producer
    Alan Yentob
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Filmed entirely in the small studio in Chelsea where Francis Bacon lived from 1961, the artist speaks candidly and informally with David Sylvester about his life and work.

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  2. Battle of Wills (1994 Television)

    Director
    Samira Osborne

    Television documentary. Discusses the authorship of Shakespeare. Thomas Bokenham, chairman of the Francis Bacon Society, believes he has discovered a cypher system that Bacon used to encrypt messages in the...

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  3. Bacon’s Arena (2009)

    Director
    Adam Low
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 95 minutes), 17.05 euros (EFB)

    BACON’S ARENA is widely acclaimed as the definitive documentary on the life of Francis Bacon. This special edition DVD which includes special features has been created to mark the centenary of his birth...

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  4. Art of Francis Bacon, The (2007)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), 19.99

    Produced in association with the Estate of Francis Bacon, this film explores many of his key canvases which have been newly filmed in HDTV. The works are complemented solely with Bacon’s own words,...

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  5. Francis Bacon (2007)

    Director
    David Hinton
    Producer
    David Hinton
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 55 minutes), £17.99

    A portrait of British artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992), whose work features distorted human figures in empty rooms. Melvyn Bragg follows Bacon’s daily activities from his cluttered studio, to a pub and...

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  6. Diego Velazquez: The Painter of Painters (2008)

    Director
    Didier Baussy-Oulianoff
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 56 minutes), £17.99

    This documentary traces the career of Diego Velazquez (1599-1660), the court painter and favourite of the Spanish King Phillip IV, who rose to prominence as one of the foremost portrait painters in Europe....

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  7. Will the Real Shakespeare? (1981 Television)

    Director
    Tony Tyley
    Producer
    Adam Low

    Television discussion programme. Robert Robinson talks to Professor Sam Schoenbaum, A.D. Wraight (author of In Search of Christopher Marlowe), Francis Bokenham (Francis Bacon Society) and Father Francis...

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  8. Shakespeare Enigma, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Steve Orme
    Producer
    Steve Orme

    A debate on the authorship of Shakespeare. Professor Stanley Wells, from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust expounds his view that Shakespeare wrote the plays. Francis Carr propounds the theory that Francis...

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  9. Peter Beard: Scrapbooks from Africa and Beyond (2009)

    Director
    Jean-Claude Luyat; Guillaume Bonn
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £19.99

    A film about the adventure photographer Peter Beard, covering all aspects of his life, professional career, and personal adventures beginning in the 1960s through to the 1990s.Iconic photographs of Beard’s...

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  10. Shakespeare Connection, The (2020 Television)

    Series
    The Curse of Oak Island: Drilling Down

    William Shatner, with tongue in cheek, hosts this documentary that revisits the treasure hunts undertaken by brothers Marty and Rick Lagina on Oak Island in Nova Scotia. If Shakespeare’s plays were in fact...

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