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  1. Tim’s Vermeer (2014)

    Director
    Teller
    Producer
    Penn Jillette; Farley Ziegler
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £19.99

    Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Jan Vermeer, specifically how Vermeer managed to paint in such a realistic manner 150 years before the invention of...

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  2. Waiting for "Superman" (2011)

    Director
    Davis Guggenheim
    Producer
    Lesley Chilcott
    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 111 mins), $8.78

    Documentary examining different aspects of the American public education system. Tenure and how the system attempts to reprimand poorly performing teachers is examined. Teaching standards are criticised as...

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  3. Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

    Subject
    Economics; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 123 minutes), £19.99

    Michael Moore pulls back the curtain on capitalism to reveal the insidious role it has played in the destruction of the American dream for many people. Back in 1989, auto workers in Flint, MI, were lamenting...

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  4. Wellkamm to Verona (2006 Film)

    aka: Welcome to Verona

    Director
    Suzanne Osten
    Producer
    Thomas Lydholm; Ulf Ahlberg
    Subject
    Drama

    Swedish feature film about relationships in a retirement home starring well-known Bergman actors Jan Malmsjo, Ghita Norby and Erland Josephson. Retired theatre director Walter tries to get erstwhile stage...

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  5. Oh! What a Lovely War (2006)

    Director
    Richard Attenborough
    Subject
    Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 144 minutes), £15.99

    A restored version of Richard Attenborough’s directorial debut film which re-interprets real First World War events as a musical. Based on the 1963 radio play written by Charles Chiltern which was adapted...

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  6. Inconvenient Truth, An (2006)

    Director
    Davis Guggenheim
    Subject
    Environmental science; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

    Davis Guggenheim’s film is based on one of a series of lectures given by former presidential candidate Al Gore to make people aware of the the dangers of global warming. It breaks up Gore’s delivery by...

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  7. War of the Worlds (2005) (2005)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £24.99

    A film adptation of the novel by H G Wells, directed by Steven Spielberg.

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  8. Wuthering Heights (1992) (2003)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes), £9.99

    Film adaptation of the novel by Emily Brontë.

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  9. Catch 22 (2002)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £15.99

    Film adaptation of Joseph Heller’s classic anti-war novel featuring Orson Welles, Jon Voight and Alan Arkin as Yossarian.

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  10. 9/11 (2002)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £9.99

    On the morning of September 11, 2001, brothers Jules and Gideon Naudet were working on a documentary about a rookie NYC firefighter. They filmed the only existing footage of the first plane crashing into the...

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