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  1. Privilege (1967)

    Director
    Peter Watkins
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £17.99

    Filmed between his anti-nuke semi-documentary THE WAR GAME (1965) and his dystopic thriller THE GLADIATORS (1969), Peter Watkins’ PRIVILEGE, an acerbic, darkly comic warning against totalitarian ideologies...

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  2. Oh! What a Lovely War (2006)

    Director
    Richard Attenborough
    Subject
    Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 144 minutes), £15.99

    A restored version of Richard Attenborough’s directorial debut film which re-interprets real First World War events as a musical. Based on the 1963 radio play written by Charles Chiltern which was adapted...

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  3. Oliver Twist (1948) (2001)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 136 minutes), £9.99 £15.99 (special)

    A classic film version of the novel by Charles Dickens, directed by David Lean. The ‘Special Edition’ also includes the 25-minute documentary A PROFILE OF OLIVER TWIST and a theatrical trailer.

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  4. Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The (2003)

    Director
    Tony Richardson
    Producer
    Michael Holden; Tony Richardson
    Subject
    Literature; Media studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £17.99 (BFI)

    Feature film adapted by Alan Sillitoe from his own short story. A borstal boy finds freedom in the solitude of cross-country running. When his sporting prowess catches the eye of the governor he is coached...

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  5. Jarman Volume 1: 1972-1986 (1972)

    Director
    Derek Jarman
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 515 minutes), £39.99

    The first of two deluxe box sets brings together a selection of his feature films on Blu-ray for the first time. Volume 1 contains IN THE SHADOW OF THE SUN, SEBASTIANE, JUBILEE, THE TEMPEST, THE ANGELIC...

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  6. Hireling, The (2009)

    Director
    Alan Bridges
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £12.99

    A recently widowed aristocrat Lady Helen Franklin (Sarah Miles), shattered by her husband’s death, takes to a sanatorium to get her feet again. On her discharge she strikes up a hesitant relationship with...

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  7. Snow, Sand and Savages: The Life and Times of Captain Frank Hurley (1973 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 48 min., 2001 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

    Biography of Australian-born photojournalist Frank Hurley, who filmed and photographed Australian explorer Douglas Mawson’s expedition to Antarctica in 1911, and then Ernest Shackleton’s later...

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  8. Look Back in Anger (1958)

    Director
    Tony Richardson
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

    An angry young man fights against life and his wife in this 1958 film adaptation by Nigel Kneale of the celebrated anti-establishment drama by John Osborne. Directed by Tony Richardson and starring Richard...

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  9. Three Films by Ken Loach (2017)

    Director
    Ken Loach
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 + 87 + 96 minutes), £29.99

    Collection of three feature films directed by Ken Loach. In Riff-Raff, Glaswegian jailbird Stevie (Robert Carlyle) heads to London to find work but discovers a world of corruption and degradation. Inner-city...

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  10. Shipping News, The (2003)

    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111 minutes), £19.99

    Film based on the novel by Annie Proulx. An inksetter in New York returns with his daughter to his family’s home in a small fishing town in Newfoundland, after a traumatizing experience with her mother who...

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