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  1. In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy. 1: The Mursi (1985 Video)

    Director
    Leslie Woodhead
    Producer
    Leslie Woodhead
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (1974 version - RAI) Sale (1974 version - RAI) Sale (1985 version - Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

    The Mursi are an unadministered tribe living in a remote corner of Ethiopia and practising a remarkable form of democracy. A tribe without chiefs or leaders, they reach their political decisions in formal...

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  2. In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy. 3: The Migrants (1985 Video)

    Director
    Leslie Woodhead
    Producer
    Leslie Woodhead
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

    Follows a draught-induced migration of the Mursi people from their traditional territory in the Omo valley of Ethiopia to the Mago valley, about 50 miles away. This migration has brought them into contact...

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  3. Nitha (1991 Video)

    Director
    Leslie Woodhead
    Producer
    Leslie Woodhead
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    This is Leslie Woodhead’s fifth DISAPPEARING WORLD film made with the Mursi of south-west Ethiopia since 1985, made at the same time as THE LAND IS BAD. The nitha is an ‘age set ceremony’ of the Mursi...

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  4. Africa, Our Own Story (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1996 sale: £7.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    An African perspective on the reasons why people in Africa still face a food crisis nine years after the Ethiopian famine started to dominate headlines. Looks at long-term solutions for the continent’s...

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  5. In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy. 2: The Kwegu (1982 Video)

    Director
    Leslie Woodhead
    Producer
    Leslie Woodhead
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

    A study of the 500 Kwegu and 5000-strong Mursi, two tribes in south-east Ethiopia whose ways of life have become totally interdependent. Depicts the almost feudal relationship between the tribes, whereby...

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  6. No Easy Walk (3 Parts) (1987 Video)

    Director
    Bernard Odjidja
    Producer
    J Edward Milner
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 3 x 60 min.

    Part 1 uses archival newsreel footage and interviews to trace the history of Ethiopia from 1896, when the Ethiopian army defeated the Italians, to the post-war setting up of the Organisation for African...

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  7. Girl Rising (2014)

    Director
    Richard Robbins
    Subject
    Development studies; Education; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 103 minutes), £13.99

    This film follows nine girls from Haiti, Nepal, Ethiopia, India, Egypt, Peru, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan on their journey to education. the girls face arranged marriages, child slavery and other...

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  8. Abraham and Sarah (2017)

    Director
    Ivo Strecker
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), £50.00

    In the highlands of Tigray, northern Ethiopia, on the edge of the escarpment that descends steeply to the Danakil dessert, Hagos Mashisho and Desta Gidey have toiled and struggled for years to turn the...

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  9. Arabian Nights, The (1974 Video)

    aka: Fiore Delle Mille e una Notte, Il

    Director
    Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Producer
    Alberto Grimaldi
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    The final part of Pasolini’s ‘Trilogy of life’ series which also includes THE DECAMERON and THE CANTERBURY TALES. A dream-like, sensuous interpretation of the original folk tales. Locations in Yemen,...

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  10. Pilgrim’s Gift, The (1996 Video)

    Director
    Barbie Campbell Cole
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows a elderly, devout couple as they endure blistering heat, bitter cold and unforgiving terrain on a pilgrimage to the shrine of their saint and idol, the 13th-century Sheikh Husein. They make to...

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