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Maria by Callas (2018)

Director

Tom Volf

Subject

Music

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 119 minutes), £19.40

A portrait of opera singer Maria Callas. Told through private letters, unpublished memoirs, performances and TV interviews, this is the first film to tell the life story of the legendary Greek-American...

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History of Broadway, The (2005)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 342 minutes), £12.99

Features six episodes which explore the history of Broadway. In ‘Syncopated City: 1919-1933’ the new freedom brought about by the end of prohibition is explored. Episodes also include: ‘Give My Regards...

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (1986)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 108 minutes), €18.99

DIVINING was Judith Jamison’s first major work as a choreographer for Alvin Ailey Dance Company. The dance evokes a strong feeling for African tribal ritual and is set to hauntingly rhythmic drum music....

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Mic Drop (2017)

Director

Keith Piper

Subject

American Studies; Film studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 12 minutes), On request

When Obama dropped the microphone, he knew what he was doing: this gesture remains a powerful way of underlining some final words. Derived from the 1980s rap scene, it signals the point when words reach...

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International Women’s Day Concert 2018 (2018)

aka: BBC Concert Orchestra and Jane Glover: International Women’s Day Concert

Subject

Music; Women’s studies

A group of academics spent 12 months tracking down the lost music of five forgotten women composers, who range from an 18th-century Viennese child prodigy to an award-winning African-American symphonist. All...

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American Feud (2009)

Director

Richard Hall

Producer

Simone Fary

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 90 minutes), $45.00

A 90-minute documentary tracing the history of Liberalism and Conservatism in the United States. Designed to appeal to a general audience as well as students and political activists, AMERICAN FEUD explores...

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King of Jazz, The (1930)

Director

Thomas Anderson Murray

Subject

American Studies; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 98 minutes), $31.96; $23.96

Made during the early years of the movie musical, this was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then...

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Matthew Bourne’s the Car Man (2017)

aka: The Car Man

Director

Matthew Bourne

Subject

Dance; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 115 minutes), £19.99

Dance show loosely based on Bizet’s classical opera Carmen, and the film adaptations of James M. Cain’s novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. Sexy drifter Luca arrives to Harmony, a small Italian...

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Requiem for Detroit (2010)

Director

Julien Temple

Subject

American Studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195.00

A BBC documentary about the story of Detroit’s automotive industry. Using extraordinary archive footage, including vivid projections of the city’s heyday on its now abandoned buildings, the testimony of...

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Quest (2017)

Director

Jonathan Olshefski

Subject

American Studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 105 minutes), $295.00

Filmed with vérité intimacy over the course of nearly a decade, Quest is the portrait of the Rainey family living in North Philadelphia. Beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency, Quest Rainey and his...

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