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  1. Frankenstein: The True Story (2014)

    Director
    Jack Smight
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 181 minutes), £15.99

    This made-for- television film, which was first broadcast in 1973, was co-scripted by Christoper Isherwood, and features a heavyweight cast, including John Gielgud, James Mason and Ralph Richardson. Less...

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  2. Speer and Hitler: The Devil’s Architect (2011)

    Director
    Heinrich Breloer
    Subject
    German studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 272 minutes), £19.99

    This award-winning, three-part docudrama tears open the veil of myths and half-truths obscuring a central figure of the Nazi regime. A man of profound contradictions, Albert Speer was a cultivated...

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  3. Daniel Deronda (2011)

    Director
    Tom Hooper
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 207 minutes), £19.99

    A television drama based on the novel by George Eliot, adapted by Andrew Davies. It is the story of the eponymous 19th century man, a Jew who reluctantly enters a marriage of convenience with an anti-Semitic...

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  4. Picnic at Hanging Rock (2008)

    Director
    Peter Weir
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes + extras), £19.99

    The film that established Peter Weir as a major filmmaker is a critically acclaimed classic of Australian cinema. With BAFTA-winning photography and a memorably haunting score Picnic At Hanging Rock remains...

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  5. War Requiem (2008)

    Director
    Derek Jarman
    Subject
    English language and literature; History; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £19.99

    Based on the life of Wilfred Owen, the poet, who died in 1918, this film is a blend of Benjamin Britten’s music, Owen’s poetry and director Derek Jarman’s visuals. The film includes wartime footage...

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  6. Browning Version, The (2007)

    Director
    Anthony Asquith
    Subject
    Drama; Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £19.99

    Michael Redgrave gives a poignant performance as Crocker-Harris, a disillusioned public schoolmaster in Anthony Asquith’s film of Terence Rattigan’s classic play. DVD extras include a commentary by film...

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  7. Berlin Alexanderplatz (2007)

    Director
    Rainer Werner Fassbinder
    Subject
    German studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 910 minutes), £54.99

    Fassbinder’s television serialisation of Alfred Döblin’s novel ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz’, made in 13 parts plus epilogue. It tells the story of Franz Biberkopf who, on his release from prison, is...

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  8. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (2003)

    Director
    Beeban Kidron
    Producer
    Philippa Giles
    Subject
    English language and literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 165 minutes), £19.99

    An adaptation of the Jeanette Winterson novel, which is the story of a fanatically religious woman’s young adopted daughter who, when she begins school, unnerves the other pupils with her wild talk. Her...

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  9. Orson Welles’ Othello Restored (1952) (2003 Film)

    aka: Othello (1950)

    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes +70 minutes of extras), £19.99

    Feature film. Welles’ first European work, shot in fits and starts over four years at various locations in Morocco and Italy, due to lack of finance. This original technical quality was poor, but this...

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  10. Crime Inc: The Real Story of the Mafia (7 Parts) (2002)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 min), £24.99

    The story of the Mafia told with the use of interviews with former mafia boss, Jimmy the Weasel Fratianno, archive home movies and FBI surveillance footage. Originally shown as a 7-part television series.

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