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Letters from Baghdad / Vitagraph ; Verve Pictures ; Between the Rivers Productions presents ; a Letters From Baghdad, Ltd production ; a film by Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum ; produced in association with Missing in Action Films ; directed by Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl ; produced by Zeva Oelbaum.
LIBRA DVD DS617.B37 L48 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926.
- Bell, Gertrude Lowthian.
- Women Arabists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Women Arabists.
- Arabists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Arabists.
- Women colonial administrators--Great Britain--Biography.
- Women colonial administrators.
- Colonial administrators--Great Britain--Biography.
- Colonial administrators.
- Women archaeologists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Women archaeologists.
- Archaeologists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Archaeologists.
- Travel writers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Travel writers.
- Iraq--Politics and government--1921-1958.
- Iraq.
- Iraq--History--Hashemite Kingdom, 1921-1958.
- Politics and government.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- documentary film.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Biographical films
- Biographies
- Documentary films
- History
- Nonfiction films
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Biographical films.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in. black and white
- Place of Publication:
- [Arlington, VA] : PBS Distribution, [2018]
- Language Note:
- English dialogue with optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; 5.1 surround.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby digital 5.1
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Gertrude Bell is sometimes called the female Lawrence of Arabia. Bell was an explorer, spy, archaeologist, and diplomat who helped shape the Middle East after World War I. Advisor to Winston Churchill and critic of colonial policies in Iraq, Bell was considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day. The film takes viewers into a past that is eerily current. Why has Bell been written out of the history she helped make?
- Participant:
- Tilda Swinton (voice ot Gertrude Bell).
- Credits:
- Directors of photography, Gary Clarke, Petr Hlinomaz ; editor, Sabine Krayenbühl ; composer, Paul Cantelon.
- Notes:
- "The extraordinary journey of Gertrude Bell, the female 'Lawrence of Arabia'"--Container
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2016.
- ISBN:
- 9781531708757
- 1531708757
- OCLC:
- 1077711902
- Publisher Number:
- 841887040501
- LTFB601 PBS Distribution
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