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A Listmania! list by Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK)
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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (Penguin Modern Classics)
1.  The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anne Frank
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  "For reasons spelt out in Generation-X and My-So Called Life (amongst others)."
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Lord of the Flies
2.  Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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  "Coral Island from a post-WWII perspective. The bestial nature lurking beneath..."
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Night and Fog [VHS]
3.  Night and Fog [VHS] VHS Michel Bouquet
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  "Resnais's harrowing documentary should be seen by all- particularly those pricks in the BNP."
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Cabaret [30th Anniversary Special Edition] [VHS] [1972]
4.  Cabaret [30th Anniversary Special Edition] [VHS] [1972] VHS Liza Minnelli
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  "Weimar decadence gives way to Nazi allure. See also Christopher Isherwood, I am a Camera etc."
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The Complete MAUS
5.  The Complete MAUS by Art Spiegelman
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  "A Cat & Mouse world depicts the horrors of the Holocaust in an extremely original. This, Anne Frank's Diary & Primo Levi's If This is a Man/The Truce should be on school syllabus..."
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The Conformist (Film ink)
6.  The Conformist (Film ink) by Alberto Moravia
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  "As Bertolucci's brilliant film is unavailable. Where Freud meets Fascism."
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Tora! Tora! Tora! [VHS] [1970]
7.  Tora! Tora! Tora! [VHS] [1970] VHS Martin Balsam
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  "A film that shows the Japanese side- though not for commercial reasons like Pearl Harbor."
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The Rebel (Penguin Modern Classics)
8.  The Rebel (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
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  "Camus looks at the atrocities with his piercing philosophies; companion to La Peste."
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Heaven and Earth: When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
9.  Heaven and Earth: When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip
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  "Unusual- a book that shows both a female & Vietnamese perspective; slightly unsatisfying film adaptation by Oliver Stone."
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The Tin Drum [VHS] [1995]
10.  The Tin Drum [VHS] [1995] VHS David Bennent
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  "Schlondorff's excellent adaptation of Gunter Grass's novel; banned in some parts of the States: think of the kids..."
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Before the Rain [VHS] [1995]
11.  Before the Rain [VHS] [1995] VHS Katrin Cartlidge
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  "The Balkans- the late Katrin Cartlidge (who also starred in the recent Oscar winning No Man's Land)."
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Plays: Vol 1 (Methuen Contemporary Dramatist): Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel; Sticks and Bones; Streamers; the Orphan Vol 1 (Contemporary Dramatists)
12.  Plays: Vol 1 (Methuen Contemporary Dramatist): Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel; Sticks and Bones; Streamers; the Orphan Vol 1 (Contemporary Dramatists) by David Rabe
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  "The Vietnam plays."
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Pinochet: The Politics of Torture
13.  Pinochet: The Politics of Torture by Hugh O'Shaughnessy
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  "Remember 9/11. 1973"
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Damascus Gate
14.  Damascus Gate by Robert Stone
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  "Kind of Graham Greene in Middle East, from writer of Dog Soldiers."
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Paths of Glory [VHS]
15.  Paths of Glory [VHS] VHS Kirk Douglas
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  "Far superior to Full Metal Jacket, The Trench, Regeneration etc."
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Hell in the Pacific [VHS]
16.  Hell in the Pacific [VHS] VHS Lee Marvin
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  "Boorman's great reduction of World War II: icon meet icon."
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Rome, Open City [VHS] [1945]
17.  Rome, Open City [VHS] [1945] VHS Anna Magnani
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  "Key work of Italian Neo-Realism; shot during the closing part of World War II."
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Dispatches (Picador)
18.  Dispatches (Picador) by Michael Herr
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  "Key Vietnam writings."
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A Savage War of Peace
19.  A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne
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  "As Pontecorvo's stunning Battle of Algiers is not available."
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Nazis-a Warning from History [VHS]
20.  Nazis-a Warning from History [VHS] VHS Sammel Wert
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  "A brilliant documentary- though now the Nazi's are more history-entertainment, see Nazi Women, Nazi Big Brother, Nazi Who Wants to be a Millionaire etc."
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Slaughter House Five
21.  Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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  "Dresden. On fire. You are an American. From Germany. So it goes."
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Salvador [VHS]
22.  Salvador [VHS] 
The list author says:
  "Oliver Stone highlights the effect of US foreign policy on central america. See also Manufacturing Consent."
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Waiting for the Barbarians
23.  Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
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  "Excellent Kafkaesque depiction of colonial barbarism."
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The Camomile Lawn [VHS] [1992]
24.  The Camomile Lawn [VHS] [1992] VHS Felicity Kendal
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  "People are still like people during War."
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Apocalypse Now Redux [DVD] [1979]
25.  Apocalypse Now Redux [DVD] [1979] DVD ~ Marlon Brando|Robert Duvall|Martin Sheen|Frederic Forrest
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  "End is still awful. It owes a lot to Aguire, Wrath of God. Captures the 'Nam zeitgeist perfectly however. If Fellini shot Dispatches?"
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Cabaret [DVD] [1972] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] forum
The delays of Cabaret in BluRay. 		6 19 days ago
Tora! Tora! Tora! [Blu-ray] [1970] forum
subtitles 		3 5 Apr 2012
Cabaret [DVD] [1972] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] forum
Should there be a 40 page booklet accompanying the DVD? 		0 6 Jan 2012
Tora! Tora! Tora! [Blu-ray] [1970] forum
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Cabaret [DVD] [1972] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] forum
Subtitles? 		1 7 Sep 2010
The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition forum
Great Book! 		0 10 Jun 2010
Cabaret [DVD] [1972] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] forum
5 minute difference? 		1 21 Apr 2010
The Complete MAUS forum
Books for boys 		1 28 Mar 2010
The Nazis - A Warning From History [DVD] forum
subtitles 		1 8 Dec 2009
Lord of the Flies forum
I cant think of the name of this book.... 		1 7 Apr 2009
The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition forum
Stupid Question!!.... 		0 14 Feb 2008
 
   

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