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  1. Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi (2014)

    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science; Media studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 179 minutes), £29.99 (inclusive)

    Two of the three films from the Qatsi trilogy. They are cinematic essays on the impact of technological progress on the earth and its peoples, set to scores by Philip Glass. The photographic effects,...

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  2. Crime and Punishment (2013)

    aka: Prestuplenie I Nakazanie

    Director
    Lev Kulidzhanov
    Subject
    Languages; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 221 minutes), £24.99

    1969 film adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novel. The Ruscico DVD release is a three disc set which includes the fifty minute on-set documentary A FEW DAYS OF ONE FILM. The release includes English language...

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  3. Prefaces to Shakespeare (2012 Video)

    Subject
    Drama

    A 2-DVD set comprising the six programmes discussing Shakespeare’s plays shown in the SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED series broadcast on BBC 2 2012. The episodes have been catalogued individually on this database...

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  4. Wagner’s Dream: The Making of the Metropolitan Opera’s New ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ (2012)

    Director
    Brian Large
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

    This documentary by Susan Froemke follows theatre director Robert Lepage as he takes on opera’s most monumental challenge: a back-to-back production of Wagner’s epic Ring cycle, the four-part, 16-hour...

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  5. Nostalgia for the Light (2012)

    Director
    Patricio Guzman
    Subject
    Archaeology; Astronomy; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 mins.), £9.99

    A documentary drama by Patricio Guzman on the high altitude desert in Chile called Atacama. Atacama is highly significant to archaeologists for preserving the oldest known mummies in the world, and for being...

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  6. Film Unfinished, A (2010)

    Director
    Yael Hersonski
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £14.99

    At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply "Ghetto," this footage quickly became...

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  7. One Continuous Take: The Kay Mander Story (2010)

    Director
    Kay Mander; Adele Carroll
    Subject
    Film & television production; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 251 minutes), £20.41

    A two-disc retrospective on documentary filmmaker Kay Mander, featuring ten of her films from the 1940s along with Dr Adele Carroll’s 2001 film featuring Kay Mander, at home in Kirkcudbrightshire,...

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  8. City, The (2009)

    Director
    Willard Van Dyke; Ralph Steiner
    Producer
    Ralph Steiner
    Subject
    Architecture; Geography; Music; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 132 minutes), £14.99

    Based on the Lewis Mumford book, ‘The Culture of Cities’, which analyses the historical phases and modern social consequences of metropolitan life. Made for the 1939 New York World’s Fair ("The World...

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  9. Hireling, The (2009)

    Director
    Alan Bridges
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £12.99

    A recently widowed aristocrat Lady Helen Franklin (Sarah Miles), shattered by her husband’s death, takes to a sanatorium to get her feet again. On her discharge she strikes up a hesitant relationship with...

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  10. All You Need is Love: The Story of Popular Music (Complete) (2009)

    Director
    Tony Palmer
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 885 minutes), £6.99 (per volume) £50.99 (set)

    All 17 episodes of Tony Palmer’s series, which looked in detail at popular music throughout the 20th century up until the mid 1970s. The series encompasses ragtime, blues, jazz, vaudeville, musicals, folk,...

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