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New Cinema of Latin America, The (1983)

Director

Michael Chanan

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 170 minutes), £120.00 [University rate]

Michael Chanan’s two-part documentary on ‘New Cinema of Latin America’, made for the UK’s Channel 4 in 1983, is now an historic document of the first twenty-five years of a continental movement which...

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Free Cinema (DVD) (2006)

Subject

History; Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 314 +161 minutes), £29.99

A compilation, on three discs, of 16 documentary films about British working-class life produced by the ‘Free Cinema’ movement. This highly influential but critically neglected movement in British...

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Steal This Film Parts I and II (2007)

Director

Jamie King

Subject

Film studies; Law; Media studies; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £14.99

STEAL THS FILM is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property. Part One, shot in Sweden and released in August 2006 only via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol, combines accounts...

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Iron Wall, The (2009)

Subject

Geography; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £20.00

A succinct documentary on Israel’s settlement programme, encompassing the underlying dynamics of the Israeli-Palestine conflict. In 1923, Vladimir Jabotinsky - father of the Zionist right - wrote: "Zionist...

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Horn Dance, The (2012 Multimedia)

Inspired by the 2012 exhibition ‘Shakespeare: Staging the World’. at the British Museum Liz Unna looks at pagan rites and rituals in Shakespeare’s work. She captures the Abbotts Bromley horn dance and...

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British Transport Films Collection Volume Ten: London on the Move (2012)

Subject

Geography; History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 250 minutes), £19.99

Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948, the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit. Launched on 1st May 1949, and led for 25 years by Edgar Anstey, a founding...

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Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (2006)

Director

Randy Olson

Subject

Biology; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 84 minutes), $345.00

Flock of Dodos" is a humorous examination of the debate between evolutionists and intelligent design (ID) proponents who argue that life is too complex to be explained by science alone. The film features...

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Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, The (2017)

Director

Ken Burns; Lynn Novick

Subject

American Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1080 minutes), £69.95

This 18-hour documentary offers an in-depth analysis of one of the most divisive and controversial events in American history: the Vietnam War. Episodes include: 1-Déjà vu (1858-1961): After a century of...

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Addressing the Nation: Gpo Film Unit Volume 1 (2008)

Director

Alberto Cavalcanti; Len Lye; Humphrey Jennings; Basil Wright

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £24.99

The first of three deluxe double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit on DVD for the first time. The complete collection includes legendary filmmakers such as John Grierson, Len...

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Between Memories (2015)

Director

Martha-Cecilia Dietrich

Subject

Anthropology; History

Distribution

Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 34 minutes), £15.00

Eudosia is still searching for her husband’s remains in the highlands of Ayacucho; Lucero has been in prison for 25 years now for the crime of terrorism against the Peruvian state; since 2009 the commandos...

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