Category Archives: Documentary

Suffrajitsu Documentary “No Man Shall Protect Us” Now Freely Available Online

Posted on December 20, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 20th June 2018 Written, co-directed and co-produced by Bartitsu instructor Tony Wolf, the 50-minute documentary No Man Shall Protect Us: The Hidden History of the Suffragette Bodyguards explores the origins and exploits of … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu Featured on Japanese TV

Posted on December 18, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 5th September 2018 This six-minute Bartitsu featurette recently screened on the Japanese television show Sekai Kurabete Mitara  (“See the World in Comparison”).  Playing to the pop-culture notion of the “gentlemanly martial art” via the Sherlock … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu Mini-Documentary on the “Celebrity Antiques Road Trip”

Posted on December 18, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 17th November 2018 A six-minute item on the gentlemanly mixed martial art of Bartitsu, as featured on a recent episode of BBC2’s Celebrity Antiques Road Trip and including demonstrations by the Manley Academy of Historical … Continue reading →

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Suffrajitsu Mini-Documentary on BBC Two

Posted on December 17, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 3rd January 2019 Instructor Jennifer Garside teaches suffrajitsu-style self-defence in this educational mini-feature for the UK’s BBC Two channel. For a more in-depth treatment of this subject, check out the free independent … Continue reading →

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“No Man Shall Protect Us” Suffragette Bodyguard Documentary Reviewed by Dr. Emelyne Godfrey

Posted on December 17, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 8th November 2018 Directed by Tony and Kathrynne Wolf, No Man Shall Protect Us: The Hidden History of the Suffragette Bodyguards (2018), written by Tony Wolf, offers a lucid and rousing yet sensitively balanced … Continue reading →

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Edith Garrud and Suffrajitsu Featured in “Beauty Bites Beast”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 21st March 2019 Self-defence expert Ellen Snortland’s 2016 documentary Beauty Bites Beast includes a short feature on Edith Garrud’s role in training the “Amazons” of the women’s suffrage movement. The suffrajitsu excerpt, including images … Continue reading →

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Re: Public Screenings of “Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes”

Posted on December 16, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 23rd January 2018 Just a reminder that the 2011 documentary Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes cannot legally be screened at venues such as public libraries, nor at events such as steampunk … Continue reading →

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A Memoir of the Production of “Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes”

Posted on December 10, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 19th September 2017 By Tony Wolf My friend Ran Braun, who is a fight choreographer and also a prominent stage director of operas in Europe, first proposed the idea of a Bartitsu … Continue reading →

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Early Reviews for “Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes”

Posted on February 9, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 25th April 2011 Reviews are coming in for the new documentary (available here) and they are good … Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes reveals an exciting world of Victorian ruffians, … Continue reading →

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“Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes”

Posted on February 9, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 28th March 2011 Announcing the long-awaited DVD release of the first feature documentary on Bartitsu, the “gentlemanly art of self defence”! At the end of the Victorian era, E.W. Barton-Wright founded Bartitsu … Continue reading →

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