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  1. Oh! What a Lovely War (2006)

    Director
    Richard Attenborough
    Subject
    Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 144 minutes), £15.99

    A restored version of Richard Attenborough’s directorial debut film which re-interprets real First World War events as a musical. Based on the 1963 radio play written by Charles Chiltern which was adapted...

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  2. Schindler (1983 Video)

    Director
    John Blair
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 79 min., 1999 sale: £14.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Oskar Schindler was a Czech-German industrialist and a German spy. He was also the only German to save thousands of Jews from Hitler’s extermination camps during World War 2. This documentary of his life...

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  3. Despair (1978)

    Director
    Rainer Werner Fassbinder
    Subject
    Film studies; History; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 121 minutes), $24.95

    Based on the classic novel by Vladimir Nabokov with screenplay adaptation by Tom Stoppard. In early 1930s Germany, against the backdrop of the Nazis’ rise to power, Hermann Hermann (Dirk Bogarde), a...

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  4. Servant, The (1963)

    Director
    Joseph Losey
    Producer
    Joseph Losey; Norman Priggen
    Subject
    Drama; Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111 minutes), £15.99

    Based on a novel by Robin Maugham, the drama is the story of a sinister manservant who insinuates himself into the life of his master and gradually reverses their respective roles. It captures the unease...

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  5. Boys in Brown, The (1949 Film)

    Director
    Montgomery Tully
    Producer
    Antony Darnborough
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film. The governor of a borstal tries to reform a group of inmates through understanding rather than punishment. Includes a scene in which six would-be escapees enact Brutus’ death scene (V v) from...

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