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Fitzcarraldo (1983)

Director

Werner Herzog

Subject

Anthropology; Film Studies; Geography; History; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 157 minutes), £19.99

With Fitzcarraldo, one of his most renowned films, acclaimed German director Werner Herzog emulates Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ in this mammoth epic set in the heart of the Amazon rainforest....

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The Bolshoi Ballet: Romeo and Juliet (1976 Television)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Director

John Vernon

Producer

Lothar Boch

Television broadcast, introduced by Beryl Grey, in honour of the 200th anniversary of the Bolshoi Ballet. The company revives Romeo and Juliet, music by Prokofiev and choreography by Leonid Lavrosky....

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1986 Video)

Director

Liviu Ciulei

Video recording of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Liviu Ciulei. Peter Francis James as Oberon and Harriet Harris as Titania. Original music by Philip Glass.

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World at War, The. Vol 4 (8 Parts) (1973 Video)

Director

Michael Darlow; John Pett; Hugh Raggett; Martin Smith

Producer

Peter Batty; Michael Darlow; David Elstein; Jeremy Isaacs; Jerome Kuehl; John Pett; Hugh Raggett; Martin Smith

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 8 x 52 min.

Part 1: The Russians from the east and the Allies from the west, drive Hitler’s armies back across the German borders and beyond (producer/writer Peter Batty). Part 2: The fate of 6 million Jews under...

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Shakespeare (1987 Television)

Series

Cosby Show, The

Director

Jay Sandrich

US television sitcom about the Huxtable family, an African-American family living in New York City. Dr Heathcliff (`Cliff’) Huxtable (Cosby) is a obstetrician, and his wife Clair (Rashid), is an attorney;...

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King Lear (2004 Video)

Director

Harold Scott

A video recording of a production of King Lear with an all African-American cast. Directed for the stage by Harold Scott and videotaped for TOFT (Theatre on Film and Tape) by Patrick Hoffmann. The play is...

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Oskar Fischinger, Volume 1 (2003)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 33 minutes), £17.99

Oskar Fischinger discovered cinema at the age of 20 from the German avant-garde animators (Eggeling, Richter and Ruttman) and began his own visual experiments in 1921. From 1929 to 1934 he composed his...

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Rossini’s Otello (2010 Radio)

aka: Otello

Series

Opera on 3

Radio broadcast of a concert performance of Rossini’s opera. The American tenor John Osborn sings the title role with Anna Caterina Antonacci as Desdemona. Evelino Pido conducts the Lyon Opera Orchestra...

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Counter Culture Volume I (1960)

Subject

Politics & government; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 140 minutes), $9.99

A compilation of six youth revolution films from the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Frank Capra’s Why we Fight (1942)

Director

Frank Capra

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 403 minutes), £24.99

Forceful propaganda on the aims of democracy contrasted with fascism. Liberties are taken with the material but a good example of the best resources of Hollywood directed towards propaganda and patriotic...

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