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[Zeppelin’s Epic Flight]

Date released

3 Aug 1931

Series name

Empire News Bulletin

Issue no

549

NoS ID

050792

This edition probably contained the item listed in NFTVA Silent News Films (1965): "Zeppelin’s epic flight: the great German airship "Graf Zeppelin" which has just returned from a voyage over the North...

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South: Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Glorious Epic of the Antarctic (1919 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. silent with music. b&w/tinted. 81 min., 1999 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A restored version of the 1919 film, photographed by Frank Hurley, of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to cross Antarctica in 1914-16. It both a historical document and a tribute to the courage of a small...

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Sofies Verden (1999 Film)

aka: Sophie’s World

Director

Eric Gustavson

Producer

Oddvar Bull Tuhus; John M. Jacobsen

An epic fantasy film. Sophie (Silje Storstein) is a 15 year-old-girl who believes she is living an ordinary life but through an unusual set of circumstances realises she is not. She is in fact a fictional...

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Awards for Mel Gibson (1996)

Genre

Interview

Mel Gibson and his epic Braveheart have picked up five Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture.

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Media Screen Round-up, June 2016

Date

14 Jul 2016, 16:18

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at the BUFVC by Andrew Ormsby This month's round-up includes journal...

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Beyond the Movie: The Lord of the Rings (2002)

Subject

Literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 min), £15.99 inc

An exploration of the impact of cultural forces that inspired New Line’s epic motion picture adaptation of the first book of J.R.R. Tolkien’s trilogy ‘The Lord of the Rings’ - ‘The fellowship of...

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Pinewood

Date released

1977

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

946

NoS ID

329187

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Maggie Palmer visits the foremost film making centre in Britain. Pinewood Studios are celebrating their fortieth anniversary with the opening of the biggest motion picture sound stage in the...

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Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1976)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 60 minutes), $19.95

A biography of Samuel Coleridge Taylor followed by a reading of the poem by Michael Redgrave, accompanied by animated visuals.

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Way Down East (1920 Video)

Director

D.W. Griffith

Producer

D.W. Griffith

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD

Epic story of a poor country girl sent to live with wealthy relations, seduced by a young landowner and flees across a frozen river.

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Epic of Everest, The (2014)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 88 minutes), £19.99

The 1924 Everest expedition culminated in the deaths of two of the finest climbers of their generation, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, and sparked an ongoing debate over whether or not they did indeed...

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