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  1. You’Re Human Like the Rest of Them: The Collected Films of B.S. Johnson (2013)

    Director
    B.S. Johnson; Mike Newell
    Subject
    Drama; Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

    Best known for groundbreaking novels such as "The Unfortunates" and "Christy Malry’s Own Double-Entry", B.S. Johnson was also the director of a number of films that have been out of circulation for...

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  2. Complete Humphrey Jennings, The: Volume Two: Fires Were Started (2012)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 211 minutes), £19.99

    Widely considered to be one of Britain’s greatest filmmakers, Humphrey Jennings is best known for films which beautifully evoke everyday heroism in times of war and peace. Combining poetic observation and...

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  3. Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (2012)

    Director
    Pamela Yates
    Producer
    Paco de Onis
    Subject
    Law; Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 103 minutes), $29.95

    A documentary focused on the role of filmic and archival documentation in the prosecution of a genocide case. During Guatemala’s brutal civil war, filmmaker Pamela Yates captured damning footage of the...

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  4. Soviet Influence, The: Battleship Potemkin / Drifters (2012)

    Director
    Sergei Eisenstein; John Grierson
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 124 minutes), £19.99

    The second in the BFI’s series looking at the influence of silent Soviet films on British filmmakers of the 1930s pairs Sergei Eisenstein’s 1929 film BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN) with John...

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  5. London: The Modern Babylon (2012)

    Director
    Julien Temple
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 128 minutes), £19.99

    Documentarian and music video director Julien Temple explores the changing cultural face of his hometown, London, in this kaleidoscopic film. Using archive footage, from the Sidney Street Siege to the riots...

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  6. Faces of Scotland (2012)

    Subject
    Film studies; History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 135 minutes), £12.99

    A compilation of nine documentaries from the Films of Scotland Collection at the Scottish Screen Archive. All the films have been restored and digitally transferred to High Definition. The films are:...

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  7. 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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  8. This Sceptred Isle: Day Trips in Britain 1940s to 1970s - The Films of Harold Baim (2012)

    Director
    Harold Baim
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 365 minutes), £15.99

    Spanning the 30 years from 1944 to 1974, THIS SCEPTRED ISLE includes over a dozen archive travelogues as filmed by celebrated quota quickie B-movie producer Harold Baim.

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  9. Dreams of a Life (2012)

    Director
    Carol Morley
    Producer
    Cairo Cannon
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £9.99

    Nobody noticed when Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London in 2003. Her body was discovered three years later, surrounded by Christmas presents she had been wrapping, and with...

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  10. Tabloid (2012)

    Director
    Errol Morris
    Producer
    Julie Bilson Ahlberg
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £14.99

    Academy Award-winner Errol Morris’ Tabloid follows the stranger-than-fiction adventures of Joyce McKinney, a former "beauty queen" whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams leads her across the...

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