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  1. Secret People (1952)

    Director
    Thorold Dickinson
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

    Crime drama set in the 1930s and starring Valentina Cortese and a young Audrey Hepburn. Maria and her younger sister Nora flee to London after their political activist father is murdered by a European...

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  2. Star Cross’d: Laura Dockrill’s Romeo and Juliet (2016 Video)

    Series
    Shakespeare Lives 2016
    Director
    Rick Stanton; Hector
    Producer
    Penny Gabriel

    STAR CROSS’D is poet, writer and illustrator Laura Dockrill’s contemporary take on Romeo and Juliet. The film is set on a windswept English beach, where ‘two houses, both alike in common crime’ wage...

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  3. Fighters/Real Money (2009)

    Director
    Ron Peck
    Subject
    Social Studies; Sports science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes/75 minutes), £15.99

    Two films by British director Ron Peck. FIGHTERS (1991) is a documentary feature that follows a group of aspiring young British boxers through training to their first big fight. It is often cited as the...

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  4. Izobrazhaya Zhertvu (2006 Film)

    aka: Playing the Victim

    Director
    Kirill Serebrennikov
    Producer
    Leonid Zagalsky; Ulyana Savelyeva; Natalya Mokritskaya

    Feature film. A black comedy made as a modern-day adaptation of Hamlet. Valya, a university graduate, makes a living impersonating victims in crime-scene reconstructions. He is also haunted by the ghost of...

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  5. Working Illegally (2015)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Social sciences

    Last year the UK Home Office detained approximately 30,000 people across a network of 13 detention centres. People are often incarcerated in these centres for immigration reasons without trial or charge....

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  6. To die or Not to die (2015 Television)

    Series
    Brokenwood Mysteries, The
    Director
    Murray Keane

    New Zealand crime drama. In this episode the lead actor in an amateur production of Hamlet dies on stage just at the end of the play. Detective Mike Shepherd investigates a case of cyanide poisoning. The...

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  7. Police and the Mentally Ill (2 Vols) (1930)

    Subject
    Mental Health and Counselling; Psychology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 60, 180 minutes), $14.99 each

    Two collections of short industrial films spanning four decades. Vol 1. POLICE AND THE MENTALLY ILL is an educational film for police officers offering advice if they are confronted by a mentally ill...

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  8. Policing London in the 70s (2008)

    Subject
    History; Law; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £14.99

    Available for the first time on DVD, 4 films from the Metropolitan Police archive vividly capturing the work of police officers in London during the 1970s. Violent and uncompromising, these films reflect the...

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  9. Berlin Alexanderplatz (2007)

    Director
    Rainer Werner Fassbinder
    Subject
    German studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 910 minutes), £54.99

    Fassbinder’s television serialisation of Alfred Döblin’s novel ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz’, made in 13 parts plus epilogue. It tells the story of Franz Biberkopf who, on his release from prison, is...

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  10. Romeo Must die (2000 Film)

    Director
    Andrzej Bartkowiak
    Producer
    Joel Silver; Jim van Wyck

    Feature film. Stylised martial arts action drama based very loosely on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. When his brother is murdered, ex-cop Han Sing breaks out of jail to avenge his killing and gets...

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