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  1. Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post-War Britain 1951-1977 (2010)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 830 minutes), £34.99

    This 4-disc set contains 32 films and brings together for the first time almost 14 hours of film material preserved in the BFI National Archive, telling the previously untold story of British documentary...

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  2. War Game, The (2003)

    Subject
    Drama; Media studies; Politics & government; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 130 minutes)

    Few films have caused as much controversy as Peter Watkins’ THE WAR GAME, a drama documentary made for BBC TV in 1965 about a ‘limited’ nuclear attack on Kent. Blending fiction and fact to create a...

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  3. Surrealism and Science: The Weird World of Jean PainlevÉ (1995 Video)

    Director
    Jean Painlevé
    Subject
    Biology; Media studies
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 95 min.

    A compilation of nine short films relating to surrealism and science made by Jean Painlevé between 1926 and 1976. Trained as a biologist, Painlevé made nearly 200 scientific films, but he soon became...

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