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  1. Storm over Asia (1928 Video)

    aka: Potomok Chingis-Khana

    Director
    Vsevolod I Pudovkin
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    Set in Mongolia under the rule of British occupational forces, tells the story of a young trapper who appears to be the long-lost descendant of Genghis Khan. The people plan to set him up as Prince Genghis...

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  2. Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928)

    aka: Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, La

    Director
    Carl Theodor Dreyer
    Subject
    Film studies; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes), £17.99

    Carl Th. Dreyer’s 1928 film follows the final days of the eponymous heroine as she undergoes the debasement and interrogation that accompanies her trial for charges of heresy, followed by imprisonment and...

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  3. Metropolis (1926 Film, Video)

    Director
    Fritz Lang
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An expressionist science fiction feature film dealing with a city presided over by an elite ruling class, under a dictatorship and based on the slave labour of the workers toiling underground. Adapted from...

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  4. Faust (1926)

    Director
    Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
    Subject
    Drama; Film Studies; German studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £29.99

    A silent version of the legend about a man who sells his soul to the devil. Based on a play by Goethe. The DVD is taken from the recently rediscovered German version of the film rather than the export...

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  5. Strike (1924)

    Director
    Sergei Eisenstein
    Subject
    Film studies; Russian studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £24.99 (MM) £19.99 (E)

    Sergei Eisenstein’s first film, portraying a 1912 strike of factory workers which is brutally put down by the authorities. The version released in 2012 by Moviemail in the Classic Russian Cinema series is...

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  6. Nibelungen, Die (1924)

    Director
    Fritz Lang
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 288 minutes), £19.99

    This new HD restoration of Fritz Lang’s epic two-part, five-hour version of the Middle German poem Die Nibelungenlied, tells the story of the hero Siegfried, his death and the subsequent vengeance of his...

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  7. Nosferatu (1922 Video)

    Director
    F W Murnau
    Subject
    English language and literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99 (DV) £22.65 (E)

    The full-length fully restored version of the silent horror classic. Count Dracula goes to Bremen and is destroyed by sunlight. An unofficial treatment of the Bram Stoker Dracula novel. The Quantum Leap...

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  8. Way Down East (1920 Video)

    Director
    D.W. Griffith
    Producer
    D.W. Griffith
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    Epic story of a poor country girl sent to live with wealthy relations, seduced by a young landowner and flees across a frozen river.

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  9. Broken Blossoms (1919 Video)

    Director
    D.W. Griffith
    Producer
    D.W. Griffith
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    A Chinese man comes to London with the hope that he can bring the message of Buddha to others. He falls in love with the daughter of a prize fighter anc cares for her when she is beaten. Their friendship...

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  10. Lubitsch in Berlin: Six Films 1918-1921 (1918)

    Director
    Ernst Lubitsch
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 439 minutes), £24.99

    This set collects six recently restored works from the silent phase of Lubitsch’s career, and casts new light on the director both as a fully-formed comic master, and as a virtuoso of cinematographic...

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