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German Concentration Camps Factual Survey: Special Archival Edition (2017)

Producer

Sidney Bernstein

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £29.99

This is the first ever DVD / Blu-ray release of Imperial War Museum’s German Concentration Camps Factual Survey. This hugely important film documents the liberation of Belsen and other concentration camp...

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Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith (2017)

Director

Stuart A. Staples

Subject

Film studies; Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 53 + 64 minutes), £19.99

This film, directed by Stuart A. Staples, is based on the work of naturalist, inventor and pioneering British filmmaker F. Percy Smith (1880-1945). It features Smith’s own footage, combined with a new...

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Film / Notfilm (2017)

aka: Film: A Film by Samuel Beckett / Notfilm: A Kino Essay by Ross Lipman

Director

Ross Lipman; Alan Schneider

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 152 minutes), £19.99

FILM (Alan Schneider,1965, 22 mins) is the Nobel prize winner Samuel Beckett’s only screenplay, starring Buster Keaton. In his extensive Kino-Essay, NOTFILM (2015, 129 mins), Ross Lipman explores the...

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Three Films by Ken Loach (2017)

Director

Ken Loach

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 + 87 + 96 minutes), £29.99

Collection of three feature films directed by Ken Loach. In Riff-Raff, Glaswegian jailbird Stevie (Robert Carlyle) heads to London to find work but discovers a world of corruption and degradation. Inner-city...

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Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front (2016)

Subject

Film studies; History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 151 minutes), £19.99

A selection of public information films, propaganda shorts and adverts from the BFI National Archive. Originally shown in cinemas to British audiences during the Second World War, these films served to boost...

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Visions of Change: The Evolution of the British TV Documentary Vol. 1: BBC 1951-1967 (2016)

Subject

Broadcasting; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 382 minutes), £34.99

An extensive collection of television films made during the 1950s and 1960s, covering a range of topics, and including films by such influential directors as Denis Mitchell, Philip Donnellan, Ken Russell,...

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Culloden; The War Game (2016)

Director

Peter Watkins

Producer

Peter Watkins

Subject

History; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes + 46 minutes), £19.99

This edition contains newly remastered HD versions of Peter Watkins’ controversial films originally broadcast by the BBC. CULLODEN (1964) reconstructs the famous battle in the style of contemporary...

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Ken Russell: The Great Composers: Elgar; The Debussy Film; Song of Summer (2016)

Director

Ken Russell

Subject

Music; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 56 minutes + 82 minutes + 73 minutes), £29.99

This collection brings together three of Ken Russell’s films which were made at the BBC during the sixties, for award-winning arts documentary series Monitor and Omnibus. The first of the three films,...

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Ken Russell: The Great Passions: Always on Sunday; Isadora; Dante’s Inferno (2016)

Director

Ken Russell

Subject

Art; Dance; Literature; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes + 64 minutes + 88 minutes), £29.99

This collection brings together three films from 1965-7. The collection opens with ALWAYS ON SUNDAY (1965) a dramatized examination of the painter Henri Rousseau. ISADORA, THE BIGGEST DANCER IN THE WORLD...

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Alan Clarke at the BBC: Vol. I: Dissent (1969-1977) (2016)

aka: Dissent and Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969-1989)

Director

Alan Clarke

Subject

Drama; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 978 minutes), £69.99

This box set brings together all of the surviving standalone BBC TV dramas that Alan Clarke directed between 1969- 1977, including such neglected classics as Horace, ‘Penda’s Fen’, ‘Diane’ and...

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