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Art & Cinema: Die Belgishche Kunstdocumentarie/Le Documentaire Sur L’Art en Belgique/The Belgian Art Documentary (2013)

Director

Henri Storck; Charles Dekeukeleire; André Cauvin; Paul Haesaerts; Luc de Heusch

Subject

Art; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 425 minutes), 47 Euros

This 3 DVD collection presents twenty films about art made by Belgian documentary filmmakers Charles Dekeukeleire, André Cauvin, Henri Storck, Paul Haesaerts and Luc de Heusch. The films cover a period of...

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Tinker (1949)

Director

Herbert P. J. Marshall

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 73 minutes), £12.99

A drama documentary (1949) about a young gypsy boy who enrols in the training school of the newly nationalised coal industry. The film was shot on location in the Durham mining villages with a...

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How the Myth was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty’s "Man of Aran" (1979)

Director

George C Stoney

Subject

Anthropology; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 58 minutes), $219.00 [Institutional rate]

George C. Stoney revisits the island made famous in Robert Flaherty’s documentary MAN OF ARAN, and speaks with some of the surviving islanders who took part in the original film, asking them about their...

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French Way, The (1972)

Director

Michael Croucher

Subject

French studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £14.99

In the early 1970s, Michael Croucher, a documentary filmmaker for the BBC, journeyed through the French countryside, filming the everyday ways of its people and village life in such places as Perigord and...

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Imposter, The (2013)

Director

Bart Layton

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

Documentary, featuring dramatised sections, telling the story of French-Algerian Frédéric Bourdin, who convinced the Barclay family from Antonio Texas, that he was in fact their son Nicholas, who had...

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Between Two Rivers (1960)

Director

Dennis Potter

Producer

Anthony de Lotbiniere

Subject

Media studies; Television studies

Dennis Potter’s debut, not as a playwright, but as a documentary maker, sees him return to the Forest of Dean having being trained by BBC documentary maker Denis Mitchell. During the course of the film,...

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Empire’s Shield, The (1919)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 152 minutes), £15.99

First release on DVD for this film which is the definitive silent documentary of the contribution made by the Royal Navy in World War II. The film is divided into eleven chapters which take the viewer from...

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Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary - Special Edition (2009)

Director

Pepita Ferrari

Subject

Film studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (97 minutes), $22.46

From cinema-vérité pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick moviemakers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world’s best documentarians reflect upon the unique power...

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Interview with Ralph Bond (1988 Video)

Director

Alan G Burton

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 103 min.

An interview with the veteran documentary film-maker Ralph Bond. Ralph Bond was active in the formation of the Workers Film Society and speaks of the distribution of Soviet films in the early 1930s. He was...

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Tokyo Olympiad (1965 Video)

aka: Tokyo Orimpikku

Director

Kon Ichikawa

Producer

Suketaru Taguchi

Subject

Media studies; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 130 min., £15.99 (inclusive)

A documentary film about the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, shot by 164 cameramen using 1031 cameras, showing close, long and medium shots of the games.

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