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  1. Night of Truth, The (2006)

    aka: Nuit de la VÉritÉ, La

    Director
    Fanta Régina Nacro
    Subject
    Development studies; Film Studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

    Set in an unnamed African country, after ten years of bloody war, the film dramatises the process of truth and reconciliation, echoing the recent histories of South Africa, Sierra Leone and Rwanda, and...

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  2. Silent Waters (2006)

    Director
    Sabiha Sumar
    Subject
    Development studies; Film Studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £19.99

    The first feature by Pakistani independent documentary filmmaker Sabiha Sumar, is an intense and rare cinematic perspective of the political evolution of Pakistan, the advent of fundamentalism and the...

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  3. Silent Britain (2006)

    Producer
    David Thompson
    Subject
    Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £19.99

    A journey through the first three decades of British cinema celebrating its visionary filmmakers and the unsung stars. Presented by Matthew Sweet and illustrated throughout with film clips including the...

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  4. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2006)

    Director
    Robert Greenwald
    Subject
    Business studies; Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £19.99

    The ethics of big business come under the spotlight in this documentary about the working practices of Wal-Mart, the world’s largest supermarket store. Owners of Asda stores in UK, this $100 billion...

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  5. Nick Broomfield - The Early Works (2006)

    Director
    Nicholas Broomfield
    Subject
    Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 610 minutes), £34.99

    A collection of documentary-maker Nick Broomfield’s earliest works. Features WHO CARES (1970), PROUD T BE BRITISH (1973), BEHIND THE RENT STRIKE (1974), JUVENILE LIAISON (1975), JUVENILE LIAISON II (1990),...

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  6. Bailey on (2006)

    Subject
    Art; Film Studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £19.99

    Three documentaries commissioned by Lew Grade for ITV between 1968 and 1971, and directed by the acclaimed photographer David Bailey. Bailey was given unprecedented access to his subjects - photographer...

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  7. Fateless (2006)

    Director
    Lajos Koltai
    Subject
    Film Studies; History; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 134 minutes), £19.99

    Imre Kertész’s adaptation of his own Nobel prize-winning novel (based on his childhood experiences) about a Jewish boy who tries to come to terms with the new hellish world that faces him when he is sent...

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  8. Best of 13th Raindance Film Festival Shorts (2006)

    Subject
    Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £13.99

    A selection of the best short films from around the world shown at the Raindance Film Festival, 2005. From the macabre animation of ‘LAmour Est’ to the anarchic ‘Girlfriend In A Kimono’, the...

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  9. River, The (2006)

    Director
    Jean Renoir
    Subject
    Film Studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 99 minutes), £19.99

    Jean Renoir’s first colour feature - shot entirely on location in India - is an adaptation of Rumer Godden’s autobiographical coming-of-age tale of an adolescent girl living with her English family on...

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  10. Dickens Before Sound (2006)

    Subject
    Film Studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 171 minutes), £12.99

    This collection of films, the majority of which are previously unreleased, shows how early cinema storytelling developed, as practitioners of this new art struggled to transform a tale from page to screen....

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