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  1. Letters from Baghdad (2017)

    Director
    Zeva Oelbaum; Sabine Krayenbuhl
    Subject
    Archaeology; History; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £7.00

    Biographical documentary about the explorer, cartographer, photographer, archaeologist and ethnographer Gertrude Bell, who travelled widely in Arabia before being recruited by British military intelligence...

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  2. Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger, The (2017)

    aka: The Seasons in Quincy

    Director
    Colin MacCabe; Christopher Roth; Tilda Swinton; Bartek Dziadosz
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £9.99

    A four-part cinematic portrait of artist, philosopher and writer John Berger. In 1973, Berger moved from urban London to the tiny village of Quincy. These shorts examine different aspects of Berger’s life...

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  3. We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012)

    Director
    Lynne Ramsay
    Subject
    Film studies; Mental Health and Counselling; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 minutes), £5.99

    Psychological drama about a tormented mother grappling with feelings of accountability and intense grief after her troubled 15-year-old son commits an act of violence that shakes their community to its very...

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  4. Derek (2009)

    Director
    Isaac Julien
    Subject
    Art; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 76 + 170 minutes), £19.99

    Painter, author, gay militant, AIDS activist and, above all, filmmaker, Derek Jarman was one of Britain’s best-loved and most original artists. This film is a remembrance of one of independent film’s...

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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. Wittgenstein (1993)

    Director
    Derek Jarman
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Film Studies; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes), £19.99

    A digitally- restored and remastered version of Derek Jarman’s film. It covers in tableaux form the greater part of the influential philosopher’s life. Written by literary theorist Terry Eagleton, the...

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  7. Hamlet (1992) (1992 Television)

    Director
    Natalia Orlova
    Producer
    Dave Edwards
    Subject
    Drama; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 324 minutes), £39.99 (Metrodome)

    The story in an animated version. All the lines spoken by the characters are Shakespeare’s own. Narrated by Michael Kitchen.

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  8. Edward II (1991 Television)

    Director
    Derek Jarman
    Producer
    Steve Clarke-Hall; Anthony Root
    Subject
    Drama; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

    Derek Jarman’s adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Jacobean tragedy, which draws out a number of contemporary parallels. Out of distribution for several years, this film was released on DVD in 2010. DVD...

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  9. Friendship’s Death (1987)

    Director
    Peter Wollen
    Subject
    Film studies

    A British war correspondent discovers a strange being known as Friendship when covering the bloody conflict between the Palestinians and Jordanians. She looks human, but who is she? An alien? A spy? The...

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  10. Aria

    Director
    Robert Altman; Nicolas Roeg; Ken Russell; Jean-Luc Godard; Derek Jarman
    Producer
    Don Boyd
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL)

    From a body-building Armide, to Tristian and Isolde in modern day Las Vegas and Verdi embroiled in a Californian sex farce, Aria transports the audience through the mediums of classical music and engaging...

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