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  1. Inside America: The Quiet Persuader (2011)

    Subject
    Media studies; Social Studies

    First transmitted in 1965, this programme looks at Steve Frankfurt, a New York advertising executive working in an industry worth 14 billion dollars in the US alone. Used to spending thousands at a time with...

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  2. The Digital Public Library of America: Current Plans and Future Prospects (2012)

    Subject
    Information technology; Librarianship

    Video recording of a lecture by Professor Robert Darnton, University Librarian at Harvard University, on the development of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and how the US experience can inform...

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  3. Alistair Cooke: The Essential Letters from America: 2000 - 2004 (2010)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 300 minutes), £18.35

    This last selection of Cooke’s letters focuses on the turbulent times in the US in the first years of the new millennium, covering the famously controversial 2000 election, in which George W. Bush narrowly...

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  4. A Buen Puerto (2010)

    Subject
    Spanish studies

    An advanced-level audio course using a variety of authentic materials from Spain and Latin America to improve language skills and knowledge of Spanish-speaking societies. The course has seven themes that...

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  5. No More Road Trips?: A Dream Ride Through 20th Century America Made from Home Movies (2013)

    Producer
    Rick Prelinger
    Subject
    American Studies; Social Studies

    A dream ride through 20th-century America made entirely from home movies, asks whether we’ve come to the end of the open road. Have we reached "peak travel"? Can we still find fortune (and ourselves) on...

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  6. Baked Alaska (2004)

    Director
    Fanny Armstrong
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0)

    Temperatures in Alaska, America’s coldest, richest State, are rising ten times faster than in the rest of the world. President Bush ignored the warning signs. He pulled out of Kyoto and wants to open a...

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  7. War on Democracy, The (2008)

    Director
    John Pilger; Chris Martin
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £19.99

    Focusing on the political state of Latin America, the film is a rebuke of both the United States’ intervention in foreign countries’ domestic politics, and its war on terrorism. John Pilger’s 2007...

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  8. Images of America 1937-1939 (1996)

    Producer
    Peter Bell
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 29 minutes), £60.00

    Illustrates the various ways in which British newsreels on the eve of World War 2 presented propaganda concerning the USA’s international role. Drawing on the archives of Gaumont British, British Movietone...

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  9. Incarcerating Us (2016)

    Director
    Regan Hines
    Producer
    Vincent Vittorio
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 84 minutes), $15.99

    Feature-length documentary that exposes America’s prison problem and explores ways to implement vital criminal justice reforms. With 2.3 million people behind bars, the US has the largest prison population...

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  10. Pig Business (2011)

    Director
    Tracy Worcester
    Subject
    Agriculture; Business studies; Economics; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 56 minutes), £10/00

    Seasoned eco-warrior Tracy Worcester sets out to discover who is paying the true price for the cheap imported pork for sale in Britain’s supermarkets. Documenting her investigation into intensive pig...

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