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  1. Lost King, The (2022 Film)

    Director
    Stephen Frears
    Producer
    Steve Coogan; Philippa Langley
    Subject
    Archaeology; Drama; History; Shakespeare

    Comedy-drama cased on the true story of amateur historian Philippa Langley (played by Sally Hawkins) and her involvement in the unearthing of the remains of King Richard III in Leicester in 2012. She is...

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  2. Hamlet Within (2022 Film)

    aka: Hamlet Revenant

    Director
    Ken McMullen
    Producer
    Ken McMullen
    Subject
    Drama; English language and literature; History; Shakespeare

    An essay film, part fiction and part documentary, that explores how Hamlet haunts audiences and the play’s characters, drawing on the work of Marx and Derrida among others.

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  3. Shakespeare: The Truth Behind the Name (2021 Film)

    Director
    Robin K. Phillips
    Producer
    Christina Di Marlo; Art Harman
    Subject
    Drama; History; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 99 minutes), £16 (approx)

    Film of Robin K. Phillips’s one-woman show that makes the case that Edward de Vere was the real author of Shakespeare’s plays.

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  4. Taking London to the World: Robert Paul Shows His Native City in Motion (2019)

    Subject
    Film studies; History

    Second in a series of three lectures in which Professor Ian Christie explores key moments in the portrayal of London in cinema over the past century, and what these portrayals may mean locally and...

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  5. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2019)

    Director
    Bill Morrison
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 121 minutes), £10.76

    Named as one of the best films of 2017 by more than 100 critics worldwide, this film tells the true story of a long-lost collection of over 500 nitrate film prints dating from the early 1900s found buried in...

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  6. Accountant of Auschwitz, The (2019)

    Director
    Matthew Shoychet
    Subject
    German studies; History; Law
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £7.00

    Documentary about 94-year-old former German SS officer Oskar Gröning, nicknamed "The Accountant of Auschwitz", who goes on trial in his home country, charged with complicity in the murder of 300,000 Jews at...

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  7. Apollo 11 (2019)

    Director
    Todd Douglas
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 93 minutes), £6.99

    Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 70mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo 11 takes us straight to the heart of NASA’s most celebrated mission, the one that...

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  8. Crusades, The (2018)

    Subject
    History; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £12.27

    The crusades inspired a sense of militant Christian identity in Western Europe and, through centuries of conflict and war, played a role in uniting disparate Muslim states against the invaders. Using new...

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  9. Mass Trespass (2018)

    aka: Trespass of Kinder Scout

    Director
    Jordan Carroll
    Subject
    History; Law; Social Studies

    Why were six men sent to prison 1932 for simply walking in the moors of the Peak District? This short documentary tells their fascinating story and also gives details regarding the National Parks and Access...

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  10. Vanity Fair (2018)

    Director
    James Strong
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (7 x 60 minutes), £24.99

    Thackeray’s literary classic is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, and follows Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English Society. Her story...

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