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Guest speaker: James Holland This year’s guest speaker is historian, writer and broadcaster, James Holland. The author of the best-selling Fortress Malta, Battle of Britain, and Dam Busters, he...
For the week ending 18th October 2013 the most requested programmes from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service were: 1. INSIDE CLARIDGES (BBC2) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National For more...
An Age of Kings is the BBC's compelling 15-part series from 1960 of William Shakespeare's great national pageant of eight History plays. Watched by over three million viewers, it remains the most ambitious...
For the week ending 19th April 2013, the most requested programmes from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service feature: slavery in Britain; the history of radio and sound; and the life and controversial times of...
Film & Video Censorship in Modern Britain by Julian Petley (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), 240 pages. ISBN: 978-0748625383 (hardback), £75; ISBN: 978-0748625390 (paperback), £24.99 About the...
100 Silent Films by Bryony Dixon (BFI, 2011). 227 pages. ISBN: 978-1844573080 (paperback). £16.99 About the reviewer: Michael Hammond took his BA in History at California State University Los Angeles, his...
Is there still more to learn about Alfred J. Hitchcock, already the most written about filmmaker in the history of the medium? Professor Charles Barr offers a fresh perspective and details of his new...
First screened on British television in October 1973, the documentary series The World at War proved to be a milestone in the history of ITV. Professor James Chapman explores its roots and its critical...
The Imperial War Museum’s Student Film Festival, to be renamed the 'IWM Short Film Festival', will return in 2014 after the IWM's closure for major refurbishment. Toby Haggith, Senior Curator in the...
The British Film Institute continues its re-evaluation of the British documentary tradition with Visions of Change, an extensive collection of television films made during the 1950s and 1960s. Dr Ieuan...
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