"Director: Paul Rotha"

• Land of Promise | DVD | (04/03/2013) from £19.69   |  Saving you £10.30 (52.31%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Featuring 40 films by such luminaries as Humphrey Jennings Paul Rotha and Ruby Grierson this collection is a major retrospective of the British documentary film movement during its period of greatest influence. The diverse and compelling films contained here - many of which are made available for the first time since their original release - bear witness to the social and industrial transformations of a rapidly changing world. This unique collection captures the spirit and strength concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before during and immediately after the Second World War. A companion collection Shadows of Progress: Documentary film in post-war Britain 1951-1977 is also available on BFI DVD. Special Features: Includes fully illustrated 96 page perfect bound book with contextualising essays on all of the films Includes interviews with some of the directors featured on the discs Includes a 15 minute film of John Grierson (the 'father' of documentary) at the National Film Theatre in 1959

• The Soviet Influence: From Turksib to Nightmail (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (19/09/2011) from £19.20   |  Saving you £2.05 (11.43%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The small number of Russian films which were shown in Britain in the late 1920s and early 1930s excited the attention of British filmmakers and writers, and played a central role in developing ideas about film as an art-form. In particular this influence was felt in the British documentary film work of such key figures as John Grierson and Paul Rotha.This unique and fascinating release explores this influence through the formal and thematic relationships between Viktor Turin's extraordinary, yet little-seen, silent documentary Turksib (1929), and a number of British documentary films, including the celebrated Night Mail (1936).

• Cat and Mouse | DVD | (16/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The First Ever Release of This Classic British Film on DVD.Paul Rotha well known for his socialist documentaries. He wrote and directed this 1958 British suspenseful thriller, an Anvil production.Based on a book by Michael Halliday, Ann Coltby, (Ann Sears) the daughter of a convicted, and executed killer believes she has murdered blackmailer (Hilton Edwards) who wants some diamonds that her father stole. She is befriended by fellow victim of the blackmailer and army deserter Rod Fenner, (Lee Paterson) whom is really after the diamonds.

• 40s Britain - Welcome To Britain Collection | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £53.98   |  Saving you £-20.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £32.99

  Three more superb DVDs from our famous 40s Britain documentary film series about the Britain in the 1940s, packaged together in a bargain priced collection in a standard-sized DVD case. Includes the following DVDs: Over Paid Over Sexed and Over Here, Women & Children At War, and The True Story of Lili Marlene.