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  • 1967
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    Herostratus

    Herostratus

    6.20 1967 HD

    When a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly...

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  • 1965
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    Boy and Bicycle

    Boy and Bicycle

    5.70 1965 HD

    A teenage boy plays truant from school, and spends the day riding around the town and the deserted beach on his bicycle, letting his mind wander as...

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  • 1956
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    A Short Vision

    A Short Vision

    6.40 1956 HD

    The leaders, the wise men, the leopard, the deer, the owl and the rat all look up in the sky in fear as a strange object flies through the sky.

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  • 1955
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    Bride and Groom

    Bride and Groom

    1 1955 HD

    I now pronounce you... animated! Newlyweds meet a nuisance in an playful mix of cartoon comedy and real-life actors, including Roobarb legend Bob...

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  • 1956
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    Together

    Together

    7.10 1956 HD

    The workaday boredom and crushing hardships of London's East End in the 1950s, seen from the point of view of two deaf-mutes who share a strong bond...

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  • 1958
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    Amelia and the Angel

    Amelia and the Angel

    6.50 1958 HD

    A young girl (Amelia) is distressed and feeling guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. Then she notices an angel and...

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  • 1979
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    Film (A Screenplay by Samuel Beckett)

    Film (A Screenplay by Samuel Beckett)

    6.00 1979 HD

    A man attempts to remain hidden from view from the camera and other eyes.

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  • 1963
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    Ten Bob in Winter

    Ten Bob in Winter

    5.00 1963 HD

    An unemployed black student borrows ten shillings from a friend, then lends the money to a musician he has just met.

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  • 1961
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    Man of Rope

    Man of Rope

    1 1961 HD

    Story of a man in prison, condemned to death, and his subsequent execution. Inspired by "Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde.

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  • 1952
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    Animated Genesis

    Animated Genesis

    6.00 1952 HD

    The story of the evolution of life on Earth in animated form.

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  • 1955
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    Rowlandson's England

    Rowlandson's England

    1 1955 HD

    England of Thomas Rowlandson's day, seen through his drawings and cartoons.

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  • 1965
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    In Separation

    In Separation

    1 1965 HD

    In Separation - of what from what? Sound, image; cause, consequence; people? The breaking apart of a relationship is exteriorised far beyond the taut...

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  • 1964
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    The Peaches

    The Peaches

    1 1964 HD

    A film fantasy concerning the adventures of a modern girl whose passion for peaches is eventu­ally replaced by a very different type of passion.

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  • 1964
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    An Untitled Film

    An Untitled Film

    6.50 1964 HD

    A BFI production from 1964, directed by David Gladwell, who is best known as an editor of films like Lindsay Anderson's If.... (1968) and O Lucky...

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  • 1961
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    Michael

    Michael

    1 1961 HD

    Sensitive portrait of a boy with Down syndrome, and the small village that includes him.

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  • 1962
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    The Pit

    The Pit

    8.00 1962 HD

    Experimental gothic short, adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum'.

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  • 1961
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    The First Step

    The First Step

    1 1961 HD

    A child discovers her ambition on her first day at a new school. First act of a three-act ballet, "The Choice", with music by Tchaikovsky.

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  • 1959
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    Refuge England

    Refuge England

    7.50 1959 HD

    Short drama-documentary showing the first day in England of a Hungarian refugee.

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  • 1957
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    Nice Time

    Nice Time

    6.00 1957 HD

    A montage of the night-life of Piccadilly Circus across the hours, from early evening to the last lingering passers-by.

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  • 1958
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    Alone with the Monsters

    Alone with the Monsters

    4.50 1958 HD

    An old woman apparently tormented by people in the street comforts herself in her room with memories of her youth.

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