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  1. Hell and Back Again (2012)

    Director
    Danfung Dennis
    Subject
    Military Science; Psychiatry; Psychology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £15.99

    A soldier dealing with the painful consequences of war finds coming home isn’t much of a consolation in this documentary. Filmmaker Danfung Dennis was embedded with a US Marine platoon fighting in...

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  2. 5 Broken Cameras (2012)

    Director
    Emad Burnat; Guy Davidi
    Subject
    Arabic studies; Film studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £15.99

    This film tells the story of Emad Burnat, who was celebrating the birth of his fourth Gibreel when Israeli settlers began building a huge separation barrier in his village. Over the course of the next two...

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  3. Nine Muses, The (2010)

    Director
    John Akomfrah
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 96 minutes), £15.99

    An impressionistic, semi-documentary by John Akomfrah which uses archival footage of the arrival of immigrants in Britain as well as clips illustrating the difficulties of integration faced by people once...

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  4. Zimbabwe Countdown (2010)

    Director
    Michael Raeburn
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 56 minutes), £15.99

    Documentary filmmaker Michael Raeburn was a supporter of the man once hailed as the ‘saviour of Zimbabwe’, Robert Mugabe. This film examines how the self-stylised liberator became a dictator and how the...

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  5. Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (2009)

    Director
    Michele Hozer; Peter Raymont
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111), £15.99 (DVD), £19.99 (Blu-ray)

    Filmmakers Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont use rare footage of classical musician Glenn Gould in performance and in interviews, as their documentary looks at the private life of the pianist exploring the...

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  6. Committing Poetry in Time of War (2006)

    Director
    Eric Sorotkin
    Subject
    Literature; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111 minutes), £15.99

    This documentary tells the story of teacher Bill Nevins who was fired from his job as a high school teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when he encouraged his students to write poetry protesting against the...

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  7. Beckett on Film (2005)

    Director
    Atom Egoyan; Damien Hirst; Neil Jordan; Conor McPherson; Damien O’Donnell; David Mamet; Anthony Minghella
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 647 minutes), £59.00

    This box set contains four DVDs featuring 19 film adaptations of Samuel Beckett’s plays by 19 directors, a documentary on the making of the films, interviews with the directors, an interview with John Hurt...

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  8. Dreaming the Quiet Man

    Director
    Se Merry Doyle
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (92 minutes), £14.99

    A documentary exploring the legacy of John Ford’s film The QUIET MAN. An array of Hollywood names, including directors Martin Scorsese and Peter Bogdanovich, along with Gabriel Byrne and Maureen O’Hara,...

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  9. Respond to Sound 2

    Director
    Adrian Younge
    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 82 minutes), £15.99

    Documentary depicting the evolution of Black American street dance from 1760s to the 1960s, illustrating how Hip Hop and freestyle dancing have a longer history than most people imagine.

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