--- product_id: 61435596 title: "Night Mail [DVD]" brand: "harry watt" price: "€ 16.91" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/61435596-night-mail-dvd store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # Night Mail [DVD] **Brand:** harry watt **Price:** € 16.91 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Night Mail [DVD] by harry watt - **How much does it cost?** € 16.91 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/61435596-night-mail-dvd) ## Best For - harry watt enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted harry watt brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description NIGHTMAILOne of the most critically acclaimed and best-loved films produced within the British documentary movement, Night Mail tells the fascinating story of the Travelling Post Office from Euston to Glasgow and the men who worked on it.Given a modest budget of only £2,000 and conceived as a routine film promoting Post Office services, the collective talents of the GPO Film Unit turned out an ambitious and inventive fusion of image, sound, music and poetry that became an instant classic and archetype of the genre.The memorable final section of the film, featuring Benjamin Britten's innovative score and verse by W H Auden timed to the rhythms of the train, is justly famous, and perhaps the most lyrical final sequence in the history of documentary filmDVD extras The Way to the Sea (UK, 1936) (features verse by Auden and music by Britten)Spotlight on the Night Mail (UK, 1948)Thirty Million Letters (UK, 1963)Night Mail 2 (UK, 1986) (updated version of Night Mail featuring poetry by Blake Morrison)Fully illustrated booklet with essays by author Blake Morrison, film composer Miguel Mera and moreUK | 1936 | black and white | English, with optional hard-of-hearing subtitles | 23 minutes + 93 minutes extra material | Original aspect ratio 1.33:1 | Region 2 DVD ## Images ![Night Mail [DVD] - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61GrMPmUgOL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What Can You Say? *by M***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 January 2007* The film 'Night Mail' is an all time classic. Auden's famous poem read by himself and the music by Benjamin Britten are the superb icing on a cake that was always an intersting and dramatically paced documentary about the overnight Anglo Scottish mail train. From seventy years on, it is of course an amazing soci-historical document as well. It incorporates what were for the time some very innovative aerial shots. The whole film is magnificent and of interest even if you have no particular interest in railways.The West Highland Line film is a great bonus with what was a good documentary about this line of fabulous scenery but with the added bonus,like 'Night Mail' of the socio-historic interest, now that the film is so much older (although nowhere near as old as 'Night Mail'). The scenes of Glasgow are particularly poignant for those who remember the city at that time but this is also true of many of the shots of people in the Highlands, with the film reflecting a society which has now long since disappeared into history. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pure poetry *by C***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 June 2011* Night Mail is deservedly celebrated, but I bought this DVD for "West Highland", John Gray's beautiful and poetic 1960 BBC documentary about life on the West Highland Line between Glasgow and Mallaig. The line has often been well filmed, but never nearly as well as it was here (in black and white).We hear the voices of railway workers talking about the line, of its beauty and, above all, of its significance. There are simple readings of place names; of the mountains, lochs and glens. This poetry is sometimes inter-cut with bald facts: gradients, miles of track to be maintained, and reminders of the necessity of shovelling coal to boil water to lift hundreds of tons of train up onto Rannoch Moor. In some passages, sounds from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop are used to evoke the dream-like quality of railway travel.To us, the film is about a vanished world but, at its core, it is about the value of community and about the dignity of service. But the film is so well made that that is never expressed. It doesn't have to be. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ bfi at its best *by J***G on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 April 2021* This collaboration between the GPO and British Transport is here shown at its best and, includes the only complete version of 30 Million Letters - the successor to the iconic "Night Mail" of 1938. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pt/products/61435596-night-mail-dvd](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/61435596-night-mail-dvd) --- *Product available on Desertcart Portugal* *Store origin: PT* *Last updated: 2026-04-22*