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  1. Steel: A Century of Steelmaking on Film (2013)

    Director
    Jack Cardiff; Jenny Woodley
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 416 minutes), £24.99

    Steel provides the backbone of Britain’s industry and society. It was a driving force behind the second Industrial Revolution and shaped many regions of the UK. In its heyday over 450,000 people were...

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  2. Matter of Life and Death, A (1945 Film)

    aka: Stairway to Heaven

    Director
    Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger
    Producer
    Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £6.88

    A British wartime aviator who cheats death by miraculously surviving bailing out of his plane without a parachute must argue for his life before a celestial court. Fantasy film, ostensibly produced with the...

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  3. Western Approaches (1944 Film, Video)

    Director
    Pat Jackson
    Producer
    Ian Dalrymple
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A story of the Atlantic convoys. Survivors of a torpedoed merchantman, adrift in a lifeboat in the Atlantic, are shadowed by a German U-boat waiting to torpedo the ship coming to their rescue. (Much of the...

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  4. Four Feathers, The (1939 Film)

    Director
    Zoltan Korda
    Producer
    Alexander Korda

    War film melodrama on the theme of heroism and celebration of empire based on the novel by A.E.W. Mason. Henry Faversham, son of a war hero, resigns his military commission just before his company is to...

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  5. As You Like It (1936) (1936 Film)

    Director
    Paul Czinner
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £9.99

    Feature film. Great Britain’s first feature-length Shakespeare sound film and Laurence Olivier’s first screen performance in a Shakespeare play. An energetic production set in an elaborate studio forest...

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  6. Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 85 minutes), £19.99

    CAMERAMAN illuminates a unique figure in British and international cinema, Jack Cardiff, a man whose life and career are inextricably interwoven with the history of cinema spanning nine decades of moving...

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