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CinÉma VÉritÉ: Defining the Moment (1999 Video)

Director

Peter Wintonick

Producer

Eric Michel; Adam Symansky

Subject

Film studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 103 min., £19.99 (inc)

A history of non-fiction films, looking at the pioneers, the techniques and the equipment. Considers the main influences on documentary film-making, and shows clips of cinéma vérité classics including...

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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2006)

Director

Nick Murphy

Producer

Mark Hedgecoe

Subject

Classical studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £19.99

Documentary series using dramatic reconstructions and computer graphics to tell the story of the rise and fall of ancient Rome, focussing on six key turning points in Roman history. Based on extensive...

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Night Mail - The Gpo Story (2013)

Director

Harry Watt; Basil Wright

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 126 minutes), £20.41

This release includes THE GPO STORY (1986), BBC Arena’s tribute to the Unit featuring many of the original filmmakers, including Harry Watt, Basil Wright, Stuart Legg, Edgar Anstey, Chick Fowle, Pat...

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Alan Clarke at the BBC: Vol. I: Dissent (1969-1977) (2016)

aka: Dissent and Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969-1989)

Director

Alan Clarke

Subject

Drama; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 978 minutes), £69.99

This box set brings together all of the surviving standalone BBC TV dramas that Alan Clarke directed between 1969- 1977, including such neglected classics as Horace, ‘Penda’s Fen’, ‘Diane’ and...

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What’s So Great About Proust? (2010)

Subject

French studies; Literature

Published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927, Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, in so far as it deals explicitly with a disappearing world in ways often felt to be incorrigibly nostalgic,...

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Flesh & Blood/Double Take (2005)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £23.99

A double bill of two British modern dance classics. To celebrate twenty years of choreography, 1984 - 2004, Lea Anderson, with The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs, presented a unique reworking of...

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Movie Lover’s Guide to Film Language, A (2005)

Subject

FE; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), £19.99

A general introduction to film language and five "lessons" covering the major elements of cinematic language: LIGHTING, CAMERA, MISE EN SCENE, SOUND and EDITING. For each of these lessons there is a short...

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Iceman Cometh, The (2002)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 208 minutes), £19.99 (INDDVD)

Eugene O’Neill wrote THE ICEMAN COMETH in 1939 but it was not produced on Broadway until 1946. It was the 1956 Broadway ‘Circle-in-the-Square’ revival of the play that bought Jason Roberts Jnr. (as he...

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London Pride (2006)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £19.99

A collection of films showing the effect of the blitz on London and its people, and the plans for the post-war regeneration of the City. Includes: LONDON CAN TAKE IT, THE PROUD CITY, LONDON AIRPORT, MOVING...

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Last Days of Jesus, The (2017)

Director

Peter Oxley

Subject

History; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 120 minutes), $19.99

For almost two thousand years, the story of Jesus of Nazareth’s final days has been celebrated by Christians the world over. From his triumphant entry into Jerusalem, through to his eventual crucifixion...

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