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Jørgen Leth 2: Sports Films

Director

Jorgen Leth

Subject

Media studies; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 300 minutes), 39.95 euros

The second box of the series Jørgen Leth Collection contains Leth’s sports films, primarily emphasising the cycle film classics STARS AND WATER CARRIERS (1974), THE IMPOSSIBLE HOUR(1975), and A SUNDAY IN...

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Soviet Influence, The: From Turksib to Nightmail (2011)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 163 minutes), £19.99

In the early 1930s, a small number of Soviet propaganda films were shown in Britain that excited filmmakers such as John Grierson, Paul Rotha and Basil Wright - luminaries of the British documentary film...

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Act of Killing, The (2013)

Director

Joshua Oppenheimer

Producer

Werner Herzog; Errol Morris

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 122 minutes), £12.99

THE ACT OF KILLING is a documentary about Anwar Congo, a gangster who, as leader of a death squad, committed mass murder during the killings of 1965 - 1966, which took place following the failed coup of the...

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Georges Braque: Autoportrait (2013)

Director

Michael Gaumnitz

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), 19.95 Euros

Documentary about Georges Braque, who played a vital part in the development of Cubism and allied himself with the Fauvist art movement. Michaël Gaumnitz’s film depicts the evolution of his art by way of...

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Five Steps to Tyranny (2011)

Director

Elizabeth McIntyre

Subject

Psychology; Social Studies

This film analyses the movement of a society from freedom to tyranny in five steps. It shows how those in positions of power may cultivate the conditions of tyranny in any population by demonstrating how...

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Motion study

Date released

1945

Series name

Britain Can Make It

Issue no

1

NoS ID

352003

Story no

2 / 3

COI synopsis: Here’s a simple problem - what’s the best way of putting these steel pegs into the holes in this board? Anybody can do it, but most of us would do it this way - pick up a handful of pegs,...

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Crude (2010)

Director

Joe Berlinger

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes), £14.99

Joe Berlinger’s cinéma-vérité feature tells the epic story of one of the world’s largest and most controversial legal cases. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion "Amazon Chernobyl" case, CRUDE...

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Last Bolshevik, The (1994)

aka: Tombeau d’Alexandre, Le

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 120 minutes), £12.99

Based on the life and work of the Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), THE LAST BOLSHEVIK is a tribute from one filmmaker to another in the form of six video "letters" sent to him...

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24 Frames

Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Subject

Art; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 114 minutes), £17.99

For what would prove to be his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami gave himself a challenge: to create a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer, bridging the two...

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Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (2015)

Director

Pratibha Parmar

Subject

History; Literature; Social Studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 84 minutes), $395

Feature film documentary. Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple. Her early life unfolded in the midst of...

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