British Film Institute
Publisher
Distributed by WinStar TV & Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mr. Neville, a young draughtsman, is persuaded to accept a very strange commission: 12 drawings of a country estate in exchange for money and sexual favours. This simple arrangement soon spirals out of control, and Mr. Neville finds himself the prime suspect in a bizarre murder mystery.
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
1919.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The film record of Sir Ernest Shackleton's heroic but ill-starred attempt to cross Antarctica in 1914-16, photographed by Frank Hurley. A restored version of the silent original constructed by the National Film and Television Archive from a wide range of materials, including a print and negative deposited by the distributor Sir William Jury, a tinted print from the Nederlands Filmmuseum,and a set of glass slides that originally accompanied the film...
3) Terminus
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
1961.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (35 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Shows changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours in the life of Waterloo Station.
4) London
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A 'fin-de-siecle' personal portrait of London from an English experimental filmmaker, shot over a period of twelve months, which saw the election of John Major as prime minister, renewed IRA bombings, the 'Black Wednesday' European monetary crisis and the 'fall of the house of Windsor'.
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
1940.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (9 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Humphrey Jennings and Harry Watt’s famous film, produced at the GPO film unit, is an enduring example of British self-mythology and rousing evidence of the artistic potential of supposed propaganda. A hymn to our capital city’s resilience during the Blitz, structured as a day-in-the-life of stiff-upper-lipped Londoners, its poetic espousal of British fortitude ensured the film was widely exhibited internationally and utilised as a tool to help...
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (130 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Documentary about the abuse of animals in factory farming, sport and research. Made over a period of two years in Britain and the U.S., includes interviews, clandestinely shot footage of stag hunting and pharmaceutical research, and rare material of the military use of animals for training, weapons testing and nuclear research.
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A man and his gay friend Robinson, are recruited as spies. They set out on seven trips around England - to the west and east of London; Oxford and Bristol; the West Midlands; Birmingham and Liverpool; Manchester and Hull; Scarborough and Whitby; and Blackpool and Sellafield.
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
1942.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (20 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Documentary, public information film, morale booster; propaganda film – all descriptions that apply to Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister's extraordinary war-time film. Using his customary combination of poetry and propaganda, Jennings constructs a collage of the various people and classes of Britain, at home and at work, at war and at peace. The result, while not overtly proselytising, sounded a clear clarion call to internal and international...
11) Night Mail
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (24 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The nightly journey of the Postal Special from London to Glasgow. The flagship of the GPO Film Unit's output and a cornerstone of British documentary. Harry Watt and Basil Wright's study of the down postal express stands as a beacon for John Grierson's original purpose for documentary - to make the working man the hero of the screen. A truly collaborative effort, a coming together of many great names and those immortal lines from W.H. Auden.
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (27 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Set during the American Civil War, the story of a Southern soldier sent to reconnoitre enemy positions who is trapped beneath a huge fall of masonry when Northern cannons hit the wall near which he was spying from.
14) Loving Memory
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
1970.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (50 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A brother and sister living in an isolated farmhouse in Yorkshire accidentally run down and kill a cyclist. The body is taken to their house, where the woman slowly comes to imagine that he is their dead elder brother.
15) Anchoress
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The story of Christine Carpenter, a 14 year old girl who has a vision of the Virgin Mary. In order to be close to Her, Christine is enclosed in the wall of the village church, becoming an 'Anchoress' who devotes her life to God. Based on letters found in the British Museum Library - written in the 1320's referring to the 'enclosure' of Christine Carpenter, 'for the fulfilment of a better life'.
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment, distributor
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (67 min.) : sd., b&w color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Premiered in Germany in 1926 and is based on the stories from "The Arabian nights", this movie has been hailed as the first full-length animated film. This is the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse intending to send the rider off on a flight to his death.
20) Lean on Pete
Publisher
A24 Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson arrives in Portland, Oregon with his single father Ray, both of them eager for a fresh start after a series of hard knocks. While Ray descends into personal turmoil, Charley finds acceptance and camaraderie at a local racetrack where he lands a job caring for an aging Quarter Horse named Lean On Pete. The horse's owner Del Montgomery and his jockey Bonnie help Charley fill the void of his father's absence-until he...