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Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes 2011

β˜… 4.22 votes54 minπŸ“… 2011-03-28

""I have introduced a new art of self defence..." - E. W. Barton-Wright, 1899"

Overview

At the end of the Victorian era, E. W. Barton-Wright combined jiujitsu, kickboxing, and stick fighting into the "Gentlemanly Art of Self Defence" known as Bartitsu. After Barton-Wright's School of Arms mysteriously closed in 1902, Bartitsu was almost forgotten save for a famous, cryptic reference in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Empty House. Hosted by Tony Wolf and featuring interviews with Harry Cook, Emelyne Godfrey, Mark Donnelly, Graham Noble, Neal Stephenson and Will Thoma

Director: Tony Wolf

Cast

Neal Stephenson
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Tony Wolf
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