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Sas: Who Dares Wins Season 1 (2016)

Director

Colin Barr

Subject

Careers Guidance; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £12.00

Reality TV show showing the intensive SAS selection process. In this series, a group of ex-Special Forces personnel take 30 ordinary men through an SAS selection course, designed and run by them, with every...

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Magnus (2016)

Director

Benjamin Ree

Subject

Education

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 78 minutes), £7.00

Documentary about Magnus, a Norwegian boy who, in his early twenties, managed to achieve and maintain the highest rating in chess history, going on to become the greatest chess champion of modern times....

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Killings of Tony Blair, The (2016)

Director

Sanne van den Bergh; Greg Ward

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

Politician George Galloway presents this documentary about the legacy of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The film examines what Galloway refers to as the death of the old Labour Party and its...

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California Dream, A (2016 Film)

Director

Shakirah Bourne

Producer

Lynette Eastmond; Melissa Simmonds

Distribution

No distributor known (12/2016)

Feature film. Contemporary re-imagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set in the Caribbean on the island of Barbados under a full moon during the Crop Over festival. Chaos ensues when Puck the Butler and...

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Rahm (2016 Film)

Director

Ahmed A. Jamal

Producer

Mahmood Jamal

Distribution

No non-theatric distributor known (3/2017)

Feature film inspired by Measure for Measure and the action moving from Vienna to contemporary Lahore. The director addresses through the text of Shakespeare’s play issues relevant to contemporary...

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Pericle Dishakespeare Sulla Strada (2016 Film)

aka: Pericles by Shakespeare on the Road

Director

Roberto Quagliano

Subject

Drama; Shakespeare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 103 minutes)

A postmodern take on the Shakespeare play as dreamed by Marina, the young daughter of the protagonist. They and other immigrants live in the interstices of a complex ring of roads, leading to an apocalyptic...

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Arts in Exile (2015)

aka: Kunst im Exil

Director

Giovanni Angella

Subject

Arts and Humanities; History

Distribution

DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 204 minutes), $129.95

Nine short films about artists impacted by the Nazis. ARNOLD ZWEIG (Joop Huisken, 1962); Erich Fried: The Whole World Should Endure (Roland Steiner, 1988); Even Today He’d Speak His Mind (Volker Koepp,...

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Congorilla (2015)

Producer

Martin E. Johnson; Osa Johnson

Subject

Natural history; Travel & tourism

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 67 mins.), $24.95

Documentary. The first sound movie made entirely in Africa, CONGORILLA chronicles Martin and Osa Johnson’s 3rd trip between 1930 and 1931. They visit familiar territory in Kenya and Tanzania before moving...

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Hamlet (2015 Film)

Director

Margaret Williams; Sarah Frankcom

Producer

Anne Beresford; Debbie Gray

Subject

Drama

A film version of Maxine Peake as Hamlet in the 2014 staging at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. Sarah Frankcom directs for stage, Margaret Williams for screen.

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Willshake (2015 Film)

Director

Joe Talbot

Producer

Emily Blacksell

Subject

Drama

Short film, live action and animation, acted by children. WillShake is a boy with a trunk of theatrical tricks who likes to tell stories. He embarks on his first journey to share the story of Henry V....

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