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  1. General Idi Amin Dada (Autoportrait) (2007)

    Director
    Barbet Schroeder
    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

    A rare chance to see the real Idi Amin in this extraordinary documentary made with the full support and participation of the dictator himself. Through his anti-Semitic rages, fetish for military power, and...

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  2. Woman in the Moon (2007)

    aka: Frau in Mond

    Director
    Fritz Lang
    Subject
    Film studies; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 163 minutes), £19.99

    FRAU IM MOND is: (a) The first feature-length film to portray space-exploration in a serious manner, paying close attention to the science involved in launching a vessel from the surface of the earth to the...

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  3. Massive Engines with Chris Barrie (2006)

    aka: Chris Barrie’s Massive Engines

    Director
    Jeremy Cadle
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £17.99

    Chris Barrie tells the story of the development of engine power across a range of ten different types of machines. He combines historical anecdotes with test drives and demonstrations to give insights into...

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  4. Punishment Park (2005)

    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £14.99

    Both controversial and relentless in its depiction of suppression and brutality, PUNISHMENT PARK was heavily attacked by the mainstream press and permitted only the barest of releases in 1971. Peter...

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  5. Idiot, The (2005)

    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 166 minutes), £19.99

    Kurosawa’s only adaptation of a Dostoevsky novel. His dramatisation uproots the novel’s Russian summer setting to a snowbound Hokkaido — the northernmost island of Japan. DVD extras: newly restored...

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  6. Tartuffe (2005)

    Director
    Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
    Subject
    Drama; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £19.99

    F. W. Murnau made this film adaptation of Molière’s satire for UFA early in 1925 and it was released the following year, shortly followed by Faust. By presenting the play as a film-within-a-film, Murnau...

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  7. Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, The (2002)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 182 minutes), £19.99

    A documentary on the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl, one of Germany’s most famous, and notorious, filmmakers who directed the Nazi propaganda films TRIUMPH OF THE WILL and OLYMPIA. As a feisty 91 year...

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  8. Fall of the Romanov Dynasty, The (2002 Film)

    aka: Padeniye Dinasti Romanovikh

    Director
    Esther Shub
    Subject
    FE; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £19.99

    This and its companion film THE GREAT WAY are remarkable examples of early historical compilation films. After painstaking research, with Shub examining each frame of available material, they were produced...

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  9. Life of Jesus, The (1997)

    aka: La Vie de Jesus

    Director
    Bruno Dumont
    Subject
    French studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £42.75

    A story of life’s brutality and exhilaration played out by turns within the quarters of a tiny Flemish country town. Here, positioned in relative isolation from the rest of so-called cultural Europe, the...

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  10. Van Gogh (1991)

    Director
    Maurice Pialat
    Subject
    Art; French studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 158 minutes), £9.99

    Van Gogh has arrived at Auvers-sur-Oise to come under the care of Dr. Gachet for his nervous agitation. Soon after the arrival of Vincent’s brother Théo and his wife, plein air portraiture and...

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