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  1. Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 85 minutes), £19.99

    CAMERAMAN illuminates a unique figure in British and international cinema, Jack Cardiff, a man whose life and career are inextricably interwoven with the history of cinema spanning nine decades of moving...

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  2. Four Feathers, The (1939 Film)

    Director
    Zoltan Korda
    Producer
    Alexander Korda

    War film melodrama on the theme of heroism and celebration of empire based on the novel by A.E.W. Mason. Henry Faversham, son of a war hero, resigns his military commission just before his company is to...

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  3. British Council films online

    Date
    3 May 2012, 09:25
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    Post

    Who We Were The British Council Film Collection Unveiled http://film.britishcouncil.org/ This evening at BFI Southbank a new collection of British Council films is being launched with an evening of...

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  4. Sons and Lovers (2005)

    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £12.99

    Classic film version of the DH Lawrence novel, directed by Jack Cardiff in 1960. DVD extras include a newly filmed 30-minute interview with Jack Cardiff, photo galleries and biographies.

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  5. Steel: A Century of Steelmaking on Film (2013)

    Director
    Jack Cardiff; Jenny Woodley
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 416 minutes), £24.99

    Steel provides the backbone of Britain’s industry and society. It was a driving force behind the second Industrial Revolution and shaped many regions of the UK. In its heyday over 450,000 people were...

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  6. Western Approaches (1944 Film, Video)

    Director
    Pat Jackson
    Producer
    Ian Dalrymple
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A story of the Atlantic convoys. Survivors of a torpedoed merchantman, adrift in a lifeboat in the Atlantic, are shadowed by a German U-boat waiting to torpedo the ship coming to their rescue. (Much of the...

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  7. Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943 Video)

    Director
    Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger
    Subject
    Film studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (157 minutes), £15.99

    Classic feature film in which a British soldier survives three wars and falls in love with three women. Roger Livesey is the colonel whose past life is revealed in flashback. The 2012 DVD release features...

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  8. River, The (2006)

    Director
    Jean Renoir
    Subject
    Film Studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 99 minutes), £19.99

    Jean Renoir’s first colour feature - shot entirely on location in India - is an adaptation of Rumer Godden’s autobiographical coming-of-age tale of an adolescent girl living with her English family on...

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  9. Lost World of Friese-Greene, The (2006)

    Director
    Claude Friese-Greene
    Subject
    Film Studies; Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 177 minutes), £19.99

    In the mid-1920s, Claude Friese-Greene drove from Land’s End to John O’Groats making a series of films en route. These remarkable films captured the life and people on his journey in colour, at a time...

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  10. Matter of Life and Death, A (1945 Film)

    aka: Stairway to Heaven

    Director
    Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger
    Producer
    Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

    A British wartime aviator who cheats death by miraculously surviving bailing out of his plane without a parachute must argue for his life before a celestial court. Fantasy film, ostensibly produced with the...

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