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Musical comedy. After a failed attempt at robbery, a gang of swindlers decide to pose as old Russian vaudevilles. A provincial town awaits the arrival of a touring troupe of famous actors. The swindlers...
One can hardly come closer to stereotypes than talking about Jewish noses and Jewish mothers. In My Nose Gayle Kirschenbaum proves that there is still room for an original take on both subjects. Her witty...
A portrait of the artist Andy Goldsworthy, who uses the materials of the natural world to create sculptures that are sometimes extremely fragile - ice-sculptures made before dawn that melt as the sun rises,...
The film, originally conceived as a study of the effects of surrealism on art, consists of interviews with five artists, intercut with film of Jackson Pollock painting and a young child drawing, and...
An 800-year-old brass head with a beaded crown and plume is one of the most famous objects in the British Museum’s African collections. Incredibly naturalistic, it is a masterpiece that has helped to...
Documentary about the Sutton Hoo helmet and the other treasures which were found when the Anglo-Saxon ship burial was excavated near Woodbridge in Suffolk on the eve of World War II. The film includes...
A 30 minute film which attempts to analyse the lasting appeal and influence of Albrecht Dürer’s ‘Rhinoceros’ and shows how his sophisticated development of the woodcut technique introduced the idea of...
This film takes as its focus the turquoise mosaic of a double-headed serpent from the British Museum’s Mexican Gallery, and examines in detail the method of craftsmanship, the tools and materials of its...
This 30 minute film looks at the well-known chess pieces, their mysterious discovery, and discusses their place within the history of the ancient game of chess and the feudal society of the time. The DVD...
This DVD examines the lion hunt reliefs in the British Museum which were created around 645 BC, when the Assyrian empire was at its height and once decorated the walls of King Ashurbanipal’s palace in...
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