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Night of Comic Relief 2, A (1989 Television)

Television charity variety revue. An evening of comedy acts, classic comedy shows and reports on the charities benefiting from the programme in Great Britain and Africa. Includes Jonathan Pryce and comedian...

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South Bank Show, The [06/01/1980] (1980 Television)

aka: Hamlet Wolfe Stalks American Culture

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Bob Bee; Geoff Dunlop

Anthology arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg. In the second part of the programme (c25mins) Jonathan Pryce and director Richard Eyre talk about the staging of Hamlet at London’s Royal Court Theatre,...

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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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Future is Now, The (2012)

Director

Gary Burns; Jim Brown

Subject

Philosophy; Psychology; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 91 minutes), Canadian $ 24.95

A drama-documentary in which a journalist meets "The Man of Today" who, while a responsible citizen, is disengaged from greater society. He believes once he’s dead nothing more matters!. As an experiment...

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Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl (2006)

Director

Phil Grabsky; David Bickerstaff

Subject

Environmental science; Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 52 minutes), £20.00

Based on Mario Petrucci’s award-winning book-length poem, the film tells the story of the people who dealt with the disaster at ground-level: the fire-fighters, the soldiers, the ‘liquidators’, and...

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Richard III (2001 Video)

Series

This England: The Histories

Director

Michael Boyd

Video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2001 production of Richard III. Directed by Michael Boyd with Aidan McArdle as Richard.

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Wie Wärs mit Shakespeare? (1979 Television, Video)

aka: Wie Waers mit Shakespeare? Balthasar im Stau und Andere Bewegte Geschichten

Director

Rudolf Jugert

Producer

Gyula Trebitsch; Karl Jobrig

Television sketch. Fourth of four 15-minute installments featuring German actor Heinz Rühmann as a taxi driver in different countries. In the Shakespeare episode an American couple intends to visit the...

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Don Giovanni (1979) (1979)

Director

Joseph Losey

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 162 minutes), £24.99

Infamous womanizer Don Giovanni makes conquest after conquest, leaving seduced and abandoned women in his wake. When the ghost of the Commendatore he has killed appears, he is given a final chance to change...

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Wild West, The (2 Parts) (1995 Video)

Director

Ric Burns

Producer

Lisa Ades; Ric Burns

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 214, 215 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive) each volume

A series examining the history of the Native Americans as white Americans moved west in the mid-19th century. The programmes combine archival phogtographs, period paintings and early motion picture footage...

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In Conversation with D M Thomas: The Novelist and the Therapist (1996 Video)

Subject

English language and literature; Psychiatry

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 59 min., 1997 sale: £49.95 (inclusive) 1997 sale: £200.00 (inclusive) set of 5

D M Thomas, author of ‘The White Hotel’, talks to Michael Jacobs. The novel is about one of Freud’s patients and combines the themes of love and death. The book raises questions about the relationship...

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