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Mussolini: The History of Italian Fascism (2013)

Director

Folco Quilici

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 480 minutes), £19.99

Documentary looking into the Italian politician and leader of the National Fascist Party Benito Mussolini and the rise of Fascism in Italy. The DVD features little-seen footage from the Italian...

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Mussolini and Italian Fascism (1991 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Covers Mussolini’s origins and rise to power, the nature of Fascism; Mussolini as supreme opportunist; illusions and delusions; the new imperialism; nemesis. Presented by Professor J A Davis with Danis...

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17th Year, The (1940 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A rare example of an Italian Fascist film. Mussolini is seen praising the achievements of his regime, 17 years after the take-over. Sequences of industrialisation, agriculture and Italian colonial conquest.

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Neve Nel Bicchiere, La (1998 Multimedia)

Subject

Italian studies

Distribution

CD-ROM

A multimedia CD-ROM based on Nerino Rossi’s novel ‘Le neve nel bicchiere’ ('The snow in the glass’). The novel and the CD-ROM describe the historical and social conditions of an Italian family over a...

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Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001)

Subject

Drama; English language and literature; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 127 mins), £19.99

Drama set in the Greek islands at the time of the Italian occupation during World War II.

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1900 (2007)

aka: Novecento

Director

Bernardo Bertolucci

Subject

Film Studies; History; Italian studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 326 minutes), £15.99

Bertolucci’s epic film of the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century. It chronicles the lives of two men born on the same day in 1900. Depardieu plays the bastard...

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Conformist, The (1970)

aka: Conformista, Il

Director

Bernardo Bertolucci

Subject

Film studies; Italian studies; Politics & government; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 113 minutes), £27.99

A man named Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant) attempts to escape his emotional past by subscribing to totalitarianism in Bernardo Bertolucci’s masterpiece of Italian cinema. But when Clerici is asked to...

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Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Sicilia!, Une Visite Au Louvre (2010)

Director

Daniele Huillet; Jean-Marie Straub

Subject

Art; Music; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 202 minutes), £17.99

CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH covers the years of Bach’s life from his marriage to Anna Magdalena to his death in 1748. ‘It is at once a love story, a documentary, a socio-political statement, and a...

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Road to War, The (8 Parts) (1989 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £320.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series examining the two decades leading up to World War 2, looking at events from the points of view of each of the main protagonists, incorporating eye-witness accounts, interviews with historians, and...

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Architectures (5 Disc Series) (2009)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 160 mins each disc approx), £12.99(each disc) £40.00 (set)

A series of 29 programmes on five DVDs each consisting of five or six individual 26-minute films which present a privileged and unprecedented look at the work of leading architects and some of their most...

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