Movie History

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    • Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Sixteen Candles, Revenge of the Nerds, The Karate Kid, The Breakfast Club, Dead Poets Society, and Everything in Between
    • By: James King
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The Ultimate History of the '80s Teen Movie goes behind the scenes of a genre where cult hits mingled with studio blockbusters, where giants like Spielberg and Coppola rubbed shoulders with baby-faced first-timers, and where future superstars got their big break....

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    • The Mystery Surrounding the Orville Nix Home Movie of November 22, 1963
    • By: Gayle Nix Jackson
    • Narrated by: Lydia Mackay
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 25-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • This book does not attempt to answer the question of who killed John F. Kennedy; instead it addresses why we should question the actions of those involved and why the truth was withheld….

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    • The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher—Television
    • By: Foster Hirsch
    • Narrated by: Foster Hirsch
    • Length: 36 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system—set against the boom of the post-WW II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts....

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    • True Stories that Inspired Horror Movies
    • By: Dr Lee Mellor
    • Narrated by: Adam Sims
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 16-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Unearth the terrifying and true tales behind some of the scariest Horror movies to ever haunt our screens, including the Enfield poltergeist case that was retold in The Conjuring 2 and the serial killer who inspired Hannibal Lector in The Silence of the Lambs....

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    • Gender in the Modern Horror Film
    • By: Carol J. Clover
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s....

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    • Turner Classic Movies
    • By: Carla Valderrama
    • Narrated by: Carla Valderrama
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • From former screen legends who have faded into obscurity to new revelations about the biggest movie stars, Valderrama unearths the most fascinating little-known tales from the birth of Hollywood through its Golden Age....

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    • By: Mark Kermode
    • Narrated by: Mark Kermode
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 471 ratings
    • If you grew up believing that Planet of the Apes told you all you needed to know about politics, and that The Exorcist revealed the meaning of life, then you probably spent far too many of your formative years at the cinema....

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    • A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies
    • By: Bruce Handy
    • Narrated by: Alex Mortensen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 20-05-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From a longtime Vanity Fair writer and editor, a delightfully entertaining, intelligent, and illuminating history and tribute to teen movies—from Rebel Without a Cause to Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and on to John Hughes, Mean Girls, The Hunger Games, and more.

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    • The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes
    • By: Harold Schechter
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films....

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    • Holocaust History on Trial
    • By: Deborah E. Lipstadt
    • Narrated by: Kate Udall
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Denial is Lipstadt's riveting account of her singular legal battle, which resulted in a formal denunciation of a Holocaust denier that crippled the movement for years to come....

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    • How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World
    • By: Chris Poggiali, Grady Hendrix
    • Narrated by: Grady Hendrix
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • When a major Hollywood studio released Five Fingers of Death to thrill-seeking Times Square moviegoers on March 21, 1973, only a handful of Black and Asian American audience members knew the difference between an Iron Fist and an Eagle's Claw....

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    • The First Novel by Quentin Tarantino
    • By: Quentin Tarantino
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Jason Leigh
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 490 ratings
    • Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction - at once hilarious, delicious and brutal - is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award-winning film....

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    • How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen
    • By: Brian Raftery
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of 1999 - arguably the most groundbreaking year in American cinematic history....

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    • Confessions of a B Movie Actor
    • By: Bruce Campbell
    • Narrated by: Bruce Campbell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 601 ratings
    • Life is full of choices. Right now, yours is whether or not to buy the autobiography of a mid-grade, kind of hammy actor....

    Regular price: £18.99

    • By: Mark Kermode
    • Narrated by: Mark Kermode
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 449 ratings
    • The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex takes us into the belly of the beast to ask: 'What’s wrong with the modern movie business?' Find out....

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    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Peter Guiness
    • Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 23-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Beginning with the iconic La Voyage Dans La Lune (1902) and ending with Richard Linklater's groundbreaking Boyhood (2014), The Movie Book chronicles more than 100 of the best films ever made....

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    • A Journey
    • By: Mary Pat Kelly, Leonardo DiCaprio, Steven Spielberg
    • Narrated by: Nancy Linari, P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 25-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In time for Scorsese’s 80th birthday and the release of Killers of the Flower Moon, a new edition of the seminal oral history tracing Scorsese’s journey from young filmmaker to legend, featuring a foreword by Steven Spielberg....

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    • The Lost World of Film Noir
    • By: Eddie Muller
    • Narrated by: Eddie Muller, Erin Bennett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, listeners on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive volume....

    Regular price: £12.99