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  1. Thee Films 1950s-1960s: W S Burroughs, Ian Somerville, Brion Gysin (1962 Video)

    Director
    Antony Balch
    Subject
    English language and literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 120 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

    A collection of short films made by Antony Balch in collaboration with William S Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Ian Somerville, with footage from Paris, Tangier and New York. Titles are WILLIAM BUYS A PARROT,...

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  2. Bridge to the Past, A (1994)

    Subject
    Dance; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 21 minutes), £20.00

    This short film presents an interpretation in dance and mime of Chinese Buddhist traditions of hungry ghosts and offerings to the dead.

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  3. Calling the Ghosts (1995 Video)

    Director
    Mandy Jacobson; Karmen Jelincic
    Producer
    Mandy Jacobson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    A film about two young women imprisoned and raped in Bosnia in 1991. After leaving Bosnia as refugees, they determined to make public the horrors of systematic rape so that the perpetrators would be...

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  4. Jerwood Bank Project (4 Dvds) (2003)

    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £15.00 each

    Documentaries from the Siobhan Davies Dance company’s annual professional development project, providing insight into the creative process behind Siobhan Davies’ work. Separate discs based on ‘In Plain...

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  5. Ghosts of Machu Picchu (2010)

    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.99

    Perched atop a mountain crest, mysteriously abandoned more than four centuries ago, Machu Picchu is the most famous archeological ruin in the Western hemisphere and an iconic symbol of the power and...

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  6. Turn of the Screw, The (Opera) (2004)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 110 minutes), Subscription only

    Benjamin Britten’s opera based on the Henry James novel about a governess who discovers that the house in which she lives and works is haunted by the evil spirits of two former employees, and that her two...

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  7. Melodrama (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    One of the most popular Victorian melodramas, ‘The Corsican Brothers’, involving ghosts, flashbacks and duel scenes, is recreated using an original Victorian toy theatre to demonstrate how music and...

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  8. City of Ghosts (2017)

    Director
    Matthew Heineman
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £9.99

    Documentary about a group of citizen journalists, who determined to tell the truth about life under Isis, form the Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently digital collective. Using their smartphones, the group...

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  9. Innocents, The (2006)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 96 minutes), £19.99

    Classic 1961 adaptation of Henry James’ ‘Turn of the Screw’, with Deborah Kerr as the governess who starts to see ghosts. DVD extras include: feature commentary and introduction by Professor...

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  10. Green Man, The (1990)

    Director
    Elijah Moshinsky
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 151 minutes), £15.99

    Kingsley Amis wry novel was filmed as a BBC mini series in 1990 and starred Albert Finney in a classic ghost story for adults based in a haunted inn. He plays Maurice Allington, an alchoholic, sexual...

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