New DVDs at Doriot Library – February 2018

Churchill /Jonathan Teplitzky  – 2017
Languages: English and French  Subtitles: French for the hearing impaired, French
DVD ( 416)

“Churchill” dramatizes the agonizing private doubts that Britain’s wartime leader felt during the buildup to the D-Day landings in June 1944. As with his previous World War II-themed feature, “The Railway Man”, Australian director Jonathan Teplitzky has fashioned a small-scale chamber drama from huge historical events, with a functional script.

Denial – Le procès du siècle / Mick Jackson – 2017
Languages  English, English Subtitles: French; and French for the hearing impaired
DVD (418)

“Denial” is about the Holocaust having happened, in spite of all the underhand attempts of the English author David Irving to dispute it. In 1996, Irving filed a lawsuit against Penguin Books and the American historian Deborah E Lipstadt, claiming that she’d libelled him repeatedly in her book Denying the Holocaust.

It is textbook advocacy, and a teaching tool of genuine value.

Viceroy’s house – Le dernier vice-roi des Indes / Gurinder Chadha – 2017
Languages : English and French
Subtitles: French for the hearing impaired
DVD (417)

“Viceroy’s House”, Chadha’s heartfelt and very personal drama about the traumas of partition, strives to dramatise the epochal events of 1947 for the widest possible audience, including those who know nothing of the independence of India or the creation of Pakistan.