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  1. All is True (2018 Film)

    Director
    Kenneth Branagh
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £9.99

    Starting in 1613, this is a biographical drama written by Ben Elton about the final years in the life of William Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon after the Globe Theatre burned to the ground. Kenneth...

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  2. Inside Job (2011)

    Director
    Charles Ferguson
    Subject
    Economics; Finance & Accounting
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes), £19.99

    Producer/director Charles Ferguson speaks at length with journalists, politicians, and financial insiders in order to offer a clearer picture of the economic meltdown that hit America starting in 2008. Matt...

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  3. Anonymous (2011 Film)

    Director
    Roland Emmerich
    Producer
    Roland Emmerich; Larry J. Franco; Robert Leger
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 125 minutes), £15.99 (DVD): £19.99 (Blu-ray)

    Feature film. A political thriller about who actually wrote the plays of William Shakespeare - Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex...

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  4. Who Killed the Electric Car? (2007)

    Director
    Chris Paine
    Subject
    Business studies; Engineering; Politics & government; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

    In the 1990s, following California’s passing of the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, American car companies began producing electric cars for mainstream consumption. GM’s EV1, which was by all accounts...

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  5. Ray Harryhausen - The Early Years (2006)

    Subject
    Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 233 minutes), 19.99

    For over half a century Ray Harryhausen has amazed and inspired filmmakers with his innovative special effects and stop-motion animation. This collection brings together a selection of his early and...

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  6. Cirque du Soleil: Corteo (2006)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes), £19.99

    In Cirque Du Soleil’s 17th circus spectacular, a clown imagines his own funeral as a lavish and astonishing carnival parade. From gravity-defying acrobatics to moments of surprising intimacy and mystery,...

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  7. Cirque du Soleil: Lovesick (2006)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94minutes), £19.99

    This documentary goes behind the scenes of the Cirque du Soleil’s cabaret-themed show Zumanity, to explore the intensity, the sensuality, and the volatility that occurs from living in the circus...

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  8. Burroughs: The Movie (1983)

    Director
    Howard Brookner
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 90 minutes), £14.33

    Feature-length documentary about the American writer William S. Burroughs. A collaborative piece between Burroughs and film-maker Howard Brookner, the documentary looks at the writer’s controversial...

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  9. Macbeth (1971) (1971 Film)

    aka: Tragedy of Macbeth

    Director
    Roman Polanski
    Producer
    Andrew Braunsberg
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 140 minutes), £19.99 (Col-T)

    Feature film. Haunting and unsparing in the realism, Polanski’s unique and pessimistic vision confronts both the dark comic elements and terror of the play’s violence. Jon Finch and Francesca Annis are...

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  10. Gumshoe (1971)

    Director
    Stephen Frears
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 88 minutes), £15.99

    Stephen Frears’ debut feature is an affectionate tribute to the Hollywood detective movies of the 1940s. A Liverpool bingo caller, Albert Finney, dreams of being a private eye and then finds himself...

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