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  1. Irma la Douce (1963 Video)

    Director
    Billy Wilder
    Producer
    Edward L Alperson
    Subject
    Drama; Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    Wilder’s film adaptation of the Broadway musical, without the music. An ex-cop falls in love with a prostitute and will do anything to keep her for himself.

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  2. Nightfall (1957)

    Director
    Jacques Tourneur
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 79 minutes), £18.00

    During his long and varied career, Jacques Tourneur tackled a breadth of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. With NIGHTFALLi, he returns to the noir genre. Adapted from the novel by prolific crime fiction...

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  3. Night of the Hunter, The (1955)

    Director
    Charles Laughton
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 89 minutes), £13.99

    Robert Mitchum plays Harry Powell, a self-appointed preacher with ‘LOVE’ and ‘HATE’ tattooed on his knuckles, who travels to a small town in search of his executed cellmate’s stash of cash, under...

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  4. Dragonwyck (1946)

    Director
    Joseph L Mankiewicz
    Producer
    Ernst Lubitsch
    Subject
    American Studies; Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B)

    The directorial debut of American director Joseph L Mankiewicz, the film is a melding of Gothic chills and baroque melodrama. A Connecticut farm girl (Gene Tierney) finds herself embroiled in a conspiracy of...

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  5. Lost Horizon (1937 Video)

    Director
    Frank Capra
    Producer
    Frank Capra
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    Based on the novel by James Hilton in which a British diplomat and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like Shangri-la. The place...

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  6. Pioneers of African-American Cinema (1915)

    Director
    Oscar Micheaux; Zora Neale Hurston; Spencer Williams; James Gist; Eloyce Gist
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1309 minutes), £39.99

    Collection of features and shorts featuring examples of early African-American film: the so-called ‘race films’ of 1920s, 30s and 40s America which rallied against the prejudiced conventions of the...

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  7. Birth of a Nation, The (1915)

    Director
    D.W. Griffith
    Producer
    D.W. Griffith
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 190 minutes), £17.99

    D.W. Griffith’s 1915 silent epic tells the story of the American Civil War from the point of view of two families who find themselves on opposing sides in the conflict. The film’s coarsely racist...

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  8. Great American Railroad Journeys: Series 1-3

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1595 minutes), £45.50

    In this 11-disc set, Conservative politician Michael Portillo swaps his treasured copy of Bradshaw’s Handbook for its stateside counterpart - an 1879 edition of Appleton’s General Guide to the United...

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  9. Ken Burns’ America

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 600 mins), £39.99

    A collection of seven separate films on aspects of American history made by Ken Burns between 1981 and 1997.

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  10. Rbg

    aka: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    Director
    Julie Cohen; Betsy West
    Subject
    Law; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £9.99

    At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the unique personal journey of her rise to the...

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