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  1. Russia 1917: Countdown to the Revolution (2017)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    BBC documentary looking at how Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin took control of Russia in just a few months in 1917. Dramatic re-enactments bring to life clashes, seminal speeches and the storming of the Winter...

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  2. Selling Hitler (1991)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 257 minutes), £19.99

    Mini-series adapted from the non-fiction book by Robert Harris about the Hitler Diaries hoax of the 1980s, starring Jonathan Pryce, Alan Bennett, Tom Baker, Alexei Sayle and Barry Humphries as Rupert Murdoch.

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  3. Henry V (1979) (1979 Television)

    aka: The Shakespeare Plays

    Director
    David Giles
    Producer
    Cedric Messina
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 170 minutes), £12.99

    Television production with David Gwillim in the title role.

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  4. Rembrandt’s ‘Three Crosses’ (1969 Film, Video)

    Director
    Dudley Shaw Ashton; Naomi Mayberg
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Christopher White, formerly of the British Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings, discusses Rembrandt’s print of ‘The Three Crosses’: the engraving of the original plate; the artist’s...

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  5. True Glory, The (1945)

    Director
    Garson Kanin; Carol Reed
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £14.00

    Uses the actual voices of British and American soldiers as commentary to describe the campaign from D-Day, in Normandy to the fall of Berlin, including the Falaise Gap, Caen, Arnhem, the liberation of Paris...

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  6. King Lear (Radio)

    Producer
    Peter Watts
    Subject
    Drama

    Radio version of Shakespeare’s tragedy produced by Peter Watts with John Gielgud in the title role. Alan MacNaughtan narrates.

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  7. Rebellion’s Masterpiece (Television)

    Director
    Robert Knights
    Producer
    Cecil Clarke; Peter Roden
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.56

    Television series, in six episodes, on the life and times of William Shakespeare. Writer John Mortimer based each episode around events in Shakespeare’s life to suggest how they influenced his writing. In...

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  8. Merchant of Venice (Television)

    Director
    Cedric Messina
    Producer
    Gerald Savory
    Subject
    Drama

    Televised adaptation of the play in which the mise en scene was inspired by Italian Renaissance art, a practice which subsequently distinguished director Cedric Messina’s productions for the BBC Television...

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  9. Will Shakespeare of Stratford (Radio)

    Producer
    Derek McCulloch
    Subject
    Drama

    Radio play about Shakespeare written by Lawrence du Garde Peach for the BBC Children’s Hour programme. According to the Radio Times programme description, the plot encompasses both young Shakespeare’s...

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  10. Victims (Radio)

    Director
    Gerry Jones
    Producer
    Gerry Jones
    Subject
    Drama; History

    Episode 7 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reigns of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins. This episode, based on Shakespeare’s Richard II...

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