Eisenstein’s debut feature, the labour drama Strike, which was released at the start of the year, well deserves a place on this list. However, 1925 was also the year that he directed the monumental ...

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Andrei Tarkovsky’s seminal sci-fi, about a trio of travellers searching for wish fufilment by crossing into restricted territory, made a dystopian malady of life in the then Soviet Union. Forty years ...

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Chilean director Felipe Gálvez tells us about his period adventure drama The Settlers, based on a dark chapter in Chile’s colonial past.

What is Digital Library on Demand (DLD)? DLD is an electronic document delivery service which enables you to obtain scans of book chapters or journal articles from our collections without having to ...

Robert Eggers brings fresh eyes and potent dread to Murnau’s silent vampire classic, but this Count Orlok can’t match the menace of the original.

The story of Christine Norden’s road to fame is a publicist’s dream. While queuing to see a Ray Milland film in the Edgware Road in August 1945, this glamorous daughter of a Sunderland bus driver was ...

While these shows grow ever-prescient (and almost prophetic given recent broadcasting news), they are far from the only programmes concerned with corruption and speaking truth to power. Defiance: ...

If conflict and strife be the food of drama, then 2024’s global realities provided all-too-rich pickings for documentary reflection, as well as grounds for pessimism about human salvation, let alone ...