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Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-Shen Chern (2011)

Director

George Paul Csicsery

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 60 minutes), $25.00

Biographical documentary examining the life of Shiing-shen Chern (1911-2004). Chern is one of the fathers of modern differential geometry. The film traces his life and accomplishments through interviews with...

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Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2016)

Director

Peter Greenaway

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £15.99

Biographical drama about the Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein. Focusing on the time that Eisenstein (Elmer Bäck) spent in Mexico in 1931 filming his drama ‘Que Viva Mexico!', the film examines the...

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Body of Work (2011)

Director

Jo Ann Kaplan

Producer

Fiz Oliver

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 119 minutes), £21.00

This collection of films by Jo Ann Kaplan comprises a selection of her most personal work, as well as her biographical film about Maya Deren. MAYA DEREN: INVOCATION is narrated by Helen Mirren, with original...

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Dexter Gordon - More Than You Know (1996 Video)

Director

Don McGlynn

Subject

Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 52 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

A biographical documentary on the jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon. Using a wide range of material including performances and interviews, Gordon narrates his own life. The film includes performances from...

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Poets and People (3 Parts) (1987 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30, 45, 45 min.

Part 1: Douglas Dunn reads his poems to a mixed-age audience at a community school on a deprived housing estate outside Edinburgh. An account of Dunn’s background is illustrated by stills of places...

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Letters from Baghdad (2017)

Director

Zeva Oelbaum; Sabine Krayenbuhl

Subject

Archaeology; History; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £7.00

Biographical documentary about the explorer, cartographer, photographer, archaeologist and ethnographer Gertrude Bell, who travelled widely in Arabia before being recruited by British military intelligence...

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Terrible Beauty, A: Ireland’s Struggles (2001)

aka: Terrible Beauty, A: Two Films About the Irish Uprising

Subject

HISTORY & POLITICS CATALOGUES

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 146 min), £21.99 inc

Two films by Kenneth Griffith on the Irish Uprising of 1916.

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Of Time and the City (2009)

Director

Terence Davies

Subject

Film studies; Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £19.99

Acclaimed British filmmaker Terence Davies revisits the city of his youth in the elegiac documentary OF TIME AND THE CITY. Connecting a deeply personal biographical lens to the universal notion of time,...

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Nightwatching/Rembrandt’s J’Accuse (2010)

Director

Peter Greenaway

Subject

Art; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 138 + 88 minutes), £15.99

In NIGHTWATCHING Peter Greenaway explores the life of Rembrandt in a biographical feature that uses the 1642 painting The Night Watch as a launching point to explore the 17th Century artist’s life from an...

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Derrida (2003)

Subject

French studies; Literature; Philosophy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 85 minutes), £7.00

A video about the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, made over five years and capturing him as he lives and works in his daily life. Derridis filmed on his first trip to South Africa where, after visiting...

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