List of British Film Institute releases
The British Film Institute have over the years released a number of historically important films, short films and documentaries, some of which may never have otherwise been released. This includes the Flipside releases which are releases of British films that have not been released previously. There have been a number of re-issues of certain titles, including dual format releases that contain both the DVD and Blu-ray.
DVD
These are all preceded by the catalogue code BFIDVD, e.g. BFIDVD501
Where a title has been released on DVD but has now been superseded by a new DVD release or dual format release, this will be indicated after the titles below.
# |
Title |
Director |
Year |
Release Date |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
501 |
Seven Samurai |
1954 |
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503 |
1995 |
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504 |
South - Sir Ernest Shackleton's Glorious Epic of the Antarctic |
1919 |
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505 |
Yojimbo |
1961 |
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506 |
1958 |
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507 |
1971 |
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508 |
1972 |
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509 |
Arabian Nights |
1974 |
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510 |
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom |
1975 |
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511 |
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner |
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512 |
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning |
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513 |
A Taste of Honey |
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515 |
Mad Love |
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516 |
The Stone Tape |
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517 |
Whistle and I'll Come to You |
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518 |
Delius - Song of Summer |
1968 |
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519 |
Alice in Wonderland |
1966 |
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520 |
Nosferatu |
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521 |
The Iron Horse |
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523 |
The Adventures of Prince Achmed |
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525 |
Burning an Illusion |
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526 |
Dickens Before Sound |
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527 |
George Washington |
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528 |
La Belle et La Bete |
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533 |
Throne of Blood |
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534 |
Stray Dog |
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535 |
Phil Mulloy - Extreme Animation |
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536 |
Red Beard |
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537 |
The Caretaker |
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538 |
Man with a Movie Camera |
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539 |
The Navigators |
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540 |
Journey to Italy |
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542 |
Campfire |
Bavo Defurne |
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543 |
The War Game |
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544 |
Culloden |
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545 |
A River Called Titas |
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546 |
The Cloud-Capped Star |
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548 |
Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film |
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549 |
Bande à part |
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551 |
Cathy Come Home |
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552 |
The Year of the [...] Olympics |
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553 |
The Signalman |
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554 |
A Warning to the Curious |
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556 |
Ghostwatch |
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558 |
Charlie Chaplin - The Essanay Films - Volume 1 |
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559 |
Charlie Chaplin - The Essanay Films - Volume 2 |
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560 |
The Name of a River |
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562 |
Sixth Happiness |
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563 |
The Draughtsman's Contract |
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564 |
A Zed And Two Noughts |
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565 |
The Early Films of Peter Greenaway - Volume 2 |
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566 |
The Early Films of Peter Greenaway - Volume 1 |
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567 |
Un chant d'amour |
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568 |
To Sleep With Anger |
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570 |
The Charge of the Light Brigade |
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571 |
An Actor's Revenge |
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576 |
Partie de campagne |
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577 |
Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter |
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578 |
La Kermesse Heroique |
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579 |
Piccadilly |
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580 |
Ossessione |
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581 |
La Terra Trema |
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582 |
Sanjuro |
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583 |
La Regle de Jeu |
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585 |
Norman McLaren - Collector's Edition - Selected Films / The Creative Process (Region 1 DVD) |
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586 |
Maitresse |
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587 |
More |
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589 |
The Edge of the World |
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590 |
The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 1 - On And Off The Rails |
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591 |
Ikiru |
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592 |
Le Cercle Rouge |
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593 |
Leon Morin, pretre |
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594 |
Le Doulos |
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595 |
The Leopard |
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596 |
A is for Autism |
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597 |
Orphee |
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599 |
Immaterial Bodies - A Cultural Analysis of Early Russian Films |
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600 |
Kirikou and the Sorceress |
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601 |
Playtime |
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602 |
Les Vacances de M. Hulot |
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603 |
Jour de Fete |
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604 |
Mon Oncle |
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605 |
Charlie Chaplin - The Mutual Films - Volume 1 |
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606 |
Charlie Chaplin - The Mutual Films - Volume 2 |
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611 |
Carmen Jones |
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612 |
Fallen Angel |
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613 |
Where The Sidewalk Ends |
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614 |
Whirlpool |
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615 |
Night and the City |
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616 |
Frank Borzage - Volume 2 - Lucky Star / Liliom |
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618 |
Frank Borzage - Volume 1 - 7th Heaven / Street Angel |
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619 |
The River |
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620 |
Pink Narcissus |
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621 |
Electric Edwardians - The Films of Mitchell & Kenyon |
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622 |
Tristana |
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623 |
Un Chien Andalou / L'Âge d'or |
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624 |
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne |
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625 |
Temenos |
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628 |
Magick Lantern Cycle |
Kenneth Anger |
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631 |
Visions of Light |
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632 |
Jan Svankmajer - The Complete Short Films |
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634 |
Les Enfants Terribles |
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636 |
High and Low |
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637 |
The Bad Sleep Well |
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638 |
Drunken Angel |
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639 |
I Live in Fear |
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642 |
R W Paul - The Collected Films 1895-1908 |
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643 |
Early Cinema - Primitives And Pioneers |
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644 |
Under the Skin |
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645 |
Woman of the Dunes |
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646 |
British Artists' Films - William Raban |
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647 |
British Artists' Films - Chris Welsby |
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648 |
People on Sunday |
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651 |
Gallivant |
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652 |
Looking For Langston |
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653 |
Quay Brothers - The Short Films - 1979-2003 |
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654 |
Silent Shakespeare |
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656 |
Paris nous appartient |
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657 |
Celine and Julie Go Boating |
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658 |
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media |
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659 |
Dreams That Money Can Buy |
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661 |
The Threepenny Opera |
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664 |
Master of the House |
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665 |
Ordet |
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666 |
Day of Wrath |
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667 |
Gertrud |
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671 |
Danger - Love at Work |
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672 |
Bigger Than Life |
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673 |
Cry of the City |
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675 |
The Innocents |
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678 |
What Price Glory |
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679 |
The Mysterians |
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680 |
Godzilla |
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689 |
Radio On |
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692 |
The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon |
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694 |
Mikio Naruse Collection |
- |
Contains When a Woman Ascends the Stairs / Floating Clouds / Late Chrysanthemums |
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696 |
Baadasssss! |
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697 |
The Mahabharata |
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701 |
Alex Cox - Straight To Hell / Death and the Compass |
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703 |
Alex Cox - Three Businessmen / Highway Patrolman |
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709 |
Five |
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710 |
Regarde la Mer and Other Short Films |
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711 |
The Cinematic Works |
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712 |
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song |
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713 |
L'armée des ombres |
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714 |
Pressure / Baldwin's [...] |
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715 |
The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 2 - See Britain By Train |
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716 |
Killer of Sheep |
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717 |
Free Cinema |
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719 |
Science Is Fiction / The Sounds of Science |
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720 |
The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 3 - Running A Railway |
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721 |
The Night of Truth |
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722 |
Silent Waters |
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724 |
The Angelic Conversation |
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725 |
Wittgenstein |
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726 |
Caravaggio |
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727 |
The Lost World of Friese-Greene |
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728 |
Silent Britain |
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730 |
British Artists' Films - Ian Breakwell |
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731 |
British Artists' Films - Jayne Parker |
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732 |
Bill Douglas Trilogy - My Childhood / My Ain Folk / My Way Home |
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733 |
Distant Voices, Still Lives |
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734 |
A Throw of Dice |
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735 |
Borderline |
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737 |
Mitchell & Kenyon In Ireland |
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738 |
Mitchell & Kenyon - Edwardian Sports |
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739 |
The Open Road |
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741 |
Theorem |
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742 |
Red Desert |
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743 |
The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 4 - Reshaping British Railways |
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744 |
The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 5 - Off The Beaten Track |
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745 |
The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 6 - The Art of Travel |
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746 |
The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 7 - The Age of the Train |
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747 |
The Lost World of Tibet |
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749 |
The Long Day Closes |
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750 |
Peter Whitehead And The Sixties |
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752 |
The Terence Davies Trilogy |
Contains Children / Madonna and Child / Death and Transfiguration |
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753 |
Still Life |
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754 |
Syndromes And A Century |
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756 |
Land of Promise - The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950 |
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758 |
The GPO Film Unit Collection - Volume 1 - Addressing The Nation |
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759 |
The GPO Film Unit Collection - Volume 2 - We Live In Two Worlds |
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760 |
The GPO Film Unit Collection - Volume 3 - If War Should Come |
||||
762 |
The Joy of [...] Education |
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764 |
The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 8 - Points And Aspects |
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770 |
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort |
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771 |
La Belle Et La Bete |
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772 |
Orphee |
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773 |
Man With A Movie Camera |
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775 |
Gazwrx - The Films of Jeff Keen |
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776 |
Love Is The Devil - Study For A Portrait of Francis Bacon |
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778 |
Black Five - The Last Days of Steam |
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782 |
Manufactured Landscapes |
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783 |
My Brother's Wedding |
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786 |
Bodysong |
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788 |
Anchoress |
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789 |
Of Time and the City |
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795 |
Lotte Reiniger - The Fairy Tale Films |
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796 |
The Animals Film |
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797 |
Derek |
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799 |
The Gigolos |
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800 |
Classic Kurosawa |
Stray Dog / Ikiru / I Live in Fear / Throne of Blood / Red Beard |
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805 |
The Jacques Tati Collection |
Includes Jour de Fete / Mon Oncle / Les Vacances de M. Hulot / Playtime / Parade |
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806 |
The British Transport Films Collection |
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808 |
Parade |
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809 |
The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 9 - Just The Ticket |
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817 |
Central Bazaar |
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818 |
The Gold Diggers |
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822 |
Herostratus |
BFI Flipside #04 |
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824 |
Winstanley |
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825 |
Shadows of Progress - Documentary Films In Post-War Britain 1951-1977 |
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826 |
Chaplin At Keystone |
Various |
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828 |
Separation |
||||
829 |
The Other Side of the Underneath |
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831 |
The Pleasure Garden |
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833 |
Night Mail |
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834 |
The Bed Sitting Room |
BFI Flipside #01 |
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835 |
Privilege |
BFI Flipside #07 |
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839 |
Primitive London |
BFI Flipside #03 |
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840 |
London in the Raw |
BFI Flipside #02 |
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842 |
This Filthy Earth |
||||
843 |
The Adelphi Collection - Penny Points to Paradise / Let's Go Crazy |
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844 |
Black Jack |
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845 |
That Kind of Girl |
BFI Flipside #08 |
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846 |
Man of Violence |
BFI Flipside #06 |
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847 |
The Miners' Campaign Tapes |
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848 |
Shirin |
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850 |
Playing Away |
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851 |
National Coal Board Collection - Volume 1 - Portrait of a Miner |
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852 |
All the Right Noises |
BFI Flipside #05 |
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853 |
The Exiles |
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855 |
The COI Collection - Volume 2 - Design For Today |
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856 |
Bodysong (Collector's Edition) |
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858 |
Permissive |
BFI Flipside #09 |
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860 |
The COI Collection - Volume 1 - Police And Thieves |
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861 |
Secrets of Nature |
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866 |
Young Soul Rebels |
||||
870 |
Film Noir Classics |
Includes Fallen Angel / Whirlpool / Night And The City / Where The Sidewalk Ends'' |
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871 |
The Terence Davies Collection |
Includes Children / Madonna and Child / Death and Transfiguration / Distant Voices, Still Lives / The Long Day Closes / Of Time and the City |
|||
876 |
The [...] Films of Peter De Rome |
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878 |
BFI Flipside Presents Kim Newman's Guide To The Flipside of British Cinema |
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882 |
The COI Collection - Volume 3 - They Stand Ready |
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893 |
Prostitute |
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895 |
Enid Blyton's - The Famous Five - Five on a Treasure Island |
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896 |
Enid Blyton's - The Famous Five - Five Have a Mystery to Solve |
||||
898 |
Central Office of Information + Mordant Music = Misinformation |
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899 |
The COI Collection - Volume 4 - Stop! Look! Listen! |
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900 |
Tales From The Shipyard - Britain's Shipbuilding Heritage On Film |
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902 |
Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece |
Contains French version with English subtitles and English dubbed version |
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903 |
Tintin and the Blue Oranges |
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905 |
Early Kurosawa |
Contains Sanshuro Sugata / Sanshuro Sugata No 2 / The Most Beautiful / The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail / No Regrets For Our Youth / One Wonderful Sunday |
|||
906 |
Enid Blyton's - The Famous Five - Five on a Treasure Island |
Includes book |
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907 |
Enid Blyton's - The Famous Five - Five Have a Mystery to Solve |
Includes book |
|||
908 |
Shane Meadows - Small Time / Where's the Money Ronnie? |
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909 |
Silent Scream |
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912 |
The Molly Dineen Collection - Volume 1 |
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913 |
The Molly Dineen Collection - Volume 2 |
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914 |
The Molly Dineen Collection - Volume 3 |
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917 |
An Unflinching Eye - The Films of Richard Woolley |
||||
920 |
Here's A Health To The Barley Mow |
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921 |
The COI Collection - Volume 5 - Portrait of A People |
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923 |
The Miners' Hymns |
||||
926 |
London and Robinson in Space |
||||
927 |
The Ozu Collection - The Student Comedies |
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928 |
Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece |
Contains English dubbed version only |
|||
929 |
The Adelphi Collection - Fun at St. Fanny's |
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930 |
The Adelphi Collection - You Lucky People! |
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931 |
The Adelphi Collection - Miss Tulip Stays the Night / The Great Game |
||||
934 |
Kurosawa Crime Collection |
- |
Includes Stray Dog / High and Low / The Bad Sleep Well / Drunken Angel |
||
935 |
The COI Collection - Volume 6 - Worth The Risk? |
||||
938 |
Encounters |
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939 |
Kurosawa Classic Collection |
- |
Includes The Lower Depths / Red Beard / Ikiru / I Live in Fear / Dodes'ka-den |
||
940 |
1971 |
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941 |
This Our Still Life |
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Blu-ray
These are all preceded by the catalogue code BFIB, e.g. BFIB1033
All titles are dual format titles unless where stated
# |
Title |
Director |
Year |
Release Date |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1001 |
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom |
Blu-ray only. Later re-issued in dual format. |
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1002 |
Red Desert |
Blu-ray only. Later re-issued in dual format |
|||
1003 |
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner |
Blu-ray only. Later re-issued in dual format |
|||
1004 |
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning |
Blu-ray only. Later re-issued in dual format |
|||
1005 |
Bodysong |
Blu-ray only |
|||
1007 |
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Trilogy of Life |
Blu-ray only. Later re-issued individually in dual format |
|||
1008 |
Gazwrx - The Films of Jeff Keen |
Blu-ray only |
|||
1010 |
Magick Lantern Cycle |
Kenneth Anger |
Blu-ray only |
||
1011 |
The Other Side of the Underneath |
Blu-ray only |
|||
1019 |
The Bed-Sitting Room |
BFI Flipside #1. Blu-ray only. Later re-issued in dual format |
|||
1020 |
Primitive London |
BFI Flipside #3. Blu-ray only. Later re-issued in dual format |
|||
1021 |
London in the Raw |
BFI Flipside #2. Blu-ray only. Later re-issued in dual format |
|||
1022 |
Separation |
Blu-ray only |
|||
1025 |
Privilege |
BFI Flipside #?. Blu-ray only |
|||
1026 |
That Kind of Girl |
BFI Flipside #?. Blu-ray only |
|||
1028 |
Penny Points to Paradise / Let's Go Crazy |
The Adelphi Collection. Blu-ray only |
|||
1030 |
The Edge of the World |
Blu-ray only |
|||
1031 |
The Leopard |
Blu-ray only |
|||
1032 |
The Innocents |
1961 |
Blu-ray only |
||
1033 |
Institute Benjamenta |
||||
1034 |
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush |
BFI Flipside #12. |
|||
1035 |
Permissive |
BFI Flipside #9. Blu-ray only. Later re-issued in dual format |
|||
1039 |
The Valley (Obscured by Clouds) |
Barbet Schroeder |
|||
1040 |
More |
Barbet Schroeder |
1969 |
||
1042 |
Lunch Hour |
BFI Flipside #17. |
|||
1050 |
Les Vacances de M. Hulot |
||||
1051 |
Playtime |
||||
1056 |
The Ozu Collection - Tokyo Story / Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family |
||||
1057 |
The Party's Over |
BFI Flipside #11. |
|||
1059 |
L'Âge d'or |
||||
1061 |
A Zed And Two Noughts |
Blu-ray only |
|||
1062 |
Joanna |
BFI Flipside #16. |
|||
1064 |
Bronco Bullfrog |
BFI Flipside #13. |
|||
1065 |
Private Road |
BFI Flipside #14. |
|||
1068 |
The Ozu Collection - Late Spring / The Only Son |
||||
1069 |
The Ozu Collection - Early Summer / What Did the Lady Forget? |
||||
1070 |
The Ozu Collection - Good Morning / I Was Born, But... |
||||
1071 |
The Ozu Collection - Equinox Flower / There Was a Father |
||||
1072 |
The Ozu Collection - An Autumn Afternoon / A Hen in the Wind |
||||
1073 |
The Ozu Collection - Late Autumn / A Mother Should be Loved |
||||
1075 |
The Adelphi Collection - Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? / My Wife's Lodger |
||||
1077 |
Loving Memory |
||||
1083 |
Duffer / The Moon Over the Alley |
BFI Flipside #15. |
|||
1084 |
The Adelphi Collection - The Crowded Day / Song of Paris |
||||
1085 |
The Great White Silence |
||||
1086 |
The Pleasure Girls'' |
BFI Flipside #10. |
|||
1088 |
Medea |
1969 |
|||
1095 |
Alice |
1988 |
|||
1096 |
Requiem for a Village |
BFI Flipside #18. |
|||
1097 |
A Day In The Life - Four Portraits of Post-War Britain By John Krish |
||||
1098 |
Robinson in Ruins |
||||
1099 |
Before the Revolution |
||||
1101 |
The Bed-Sitting Room |
BFI Flipside #1. Dual format reissue |
|||
1102 |
London in the Raw |
BFI Flipside #2. Dual format reissue |
|||
1103 |
Primitive London |
BFI Flipside #3. Dual format reissue |
|||
1104 |
Herostratus |
BFI Flipside #4. Dual format reissue |
|||
1105 |
All the Right Noises |
BFI Flipside #5. Dual format reissue |
|||
1106 |
Man of Violence |
BFI Flipside #6. Dual format reissue |
|||
1107 |
Privilege |
BFI Flipside #7. Dual format reissue |
|||
1108 |
That Kind of Girl |
BFI Flipside #8. Dual format reissue |
|||
1109 |
Permissive |
BFI Flipside #9. Dual format reissue |
|||
1110 |
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning |
Dual format reissue |
|||
1111 |
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner |
Dual format reissue |
|||
1112 |
Magick Lantern Cycle |
Kenneth Anger |
|||
1114 |
Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom |
||||
1115 |
The Decameron |
||||
1116 |
The Canterbury Tales |
||||
1117 |
Arabian Nights |
||||
1118 |
French Cancan |
||||
1119 |
The Complete Humphrey Jennings - Volume 1 - The First Days |
||||
1123 |
Little Malcolm And His Struggle Against The Eunuchs |
BFI Flipside #20. |
|||
1124 |
Her Private Hell |
BFI Flipside #22. |
|||
1130 |
The Soviet Influence - From Turksib To Night Mail |
||||
1131 |
Deep End |
BFI Flipside #19. |
|||
1132 |
Voice Over |
BFI Flipside #21. |
|||
1133 |
Nightbirds |
BFI Flipside #23. |
|||
1134 |
Red Desert |
||||
1137 |
A Bigger Splash |
||||
The BFI have said that where a suitable master exists they will release titles on dual format Blu-ray/DVD, otherwise the titles will receive a DVD only release. There are a number of titles which have had separate DVD and Blu-ray releases. These have now been deleted and are now available in dual format releases. There are a number of other titles which will also be combined to dual format releases during 2012