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  1. Oh Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams (2008)

    Director
    Tony Palmer
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 149 minutes), £14.99

    Released to mark the 50th anniversary of Vaughan Williams’ death, this is the first ever full-length biography of the composer, produced by director Tony Palmer. The film features specially recorded...

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  2. Into Great Silence (2007)

    Director
    Philip Gröning
    Subject
    Philosophy; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 164 minutes), £22.99

    As a young filmmaker, Philip Gröning approached the Prior of the Grande Chartreuse Monastery, located high in the French Alps, to inquire whether he might make a documentary of their lives. 16 years later...

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  3. Partition (2007)

    Director
    Ken McMullen
    Subject
    Film Studies; History; Literature; Politics & government; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 78 minutes), £12.99

    An intense drama based around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the transfer of power from British to Indian hands. Based on Saadat Hussan Manto’s famous short story about partition,...

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  4. Bill Viola - The Eye of the Heart (2007)

    Subject
    Art; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 59 minutes), £24.99

    Bill Viola is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading visual artists. A pioneer of video art since its early days in the 1970s, he has constantly pushed the limits of technology, but has also been...

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  5. Taking Liberties (2007)

    Director
    Chris Atkins
    Subject
    Law; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes), £15.99

    A shocking, polemical film that charts the destruction of basic liberties under 10 years of New Labour. Released to coincide with Tony Blair’s departure, the film and the book follow the stories of normal...

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  6. Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs: Official Exhibition DVD (2007)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 118 minutes), £12.99

    The last time Tutankhamun visited the UK was in the 1970s when the British Museum held the ‘Treasures of Tutankhamun’ exhibition, which was visited by 1.7 million people. The exhibition returns to the UK...

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  7. Broad Horizons Issue 1 (2006)

    Subject
    Media studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £14.00

    Broad Horizons, founded in 2006, is a radical Women’s network bringing together women working in media. This is the first in a series of DVDs showcasing the work of women working with film, video, music,...

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  8. British Face, The (2006)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 110 minutes), £21.99

    Produced in association with London’s National Portrait Gallery, Fiona Shaw goes on a journey to explore pictures of people in history and today, interviewing painters, photographers and caricaturists....

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  9. Langlands and Bell (2006)

    Subject
    Architecture; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 26 minutes), £13.99

    theEYE is a series of interview-based profiles of contemporary visual artists in Britain. Each film provides a survey of an artist’s work and ideas, featuring the artist in discussion and illustrated by...

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  10. Sarah Lucas (2006)

    Subject
    Art; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 26 minutes)

    theEYE is a series of interview-based profiles of contemporary visual artists in Britain. Each film provides a survey of an artist’s work and ideas, featuring the artist in discussion and illustrated by...

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