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Night Mail (Bfi Film Classics)

by Scott Anthony

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Night Mail (1936) is one of the best loved and best known films in the canon of British documentary cinema. Bringing together the creative talents of Harry Watt, Basil Wright, W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten, the film gave John Grierson's documentary school its first popular success.

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