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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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Revolution That Wasn’t, The (2010)

aka: Revolutsioon, Mida Polnud

Director

Aliona Polunina

Subject

History; Politics & government

In Russia 2007, the opposition to Putin’s regime is gathering forces for the next presidential elections. The film follows a father and his son in the National Bolshevik Party: a dream of crime and...

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Snowdonia Shepherdess (2018)

Subject

Agriculture

Documentary about 26-year-old Teleri Fielden, who is given an opportunity to fulfil her dream of becoming an upland hill farmer. She has won a scholarship to run the beautiful National Trust farm Llyndy...

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Our Hitler: A Film from Germany (2007)

aka: Hitler: Ein Film aus Deutschland and Hitler: A Film from Germany

Director

Hans Jürgen Syberberg

Subject

Drama; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 450 minutes), $79.95

"The most extraordinary film I have ever seen," says Susan Sontag of director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg’s epic nightmare rumination on Adolf Hitler, the cultural mechanisms underlying his mythic rise, and the...

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Collapse of Atheism, The/ Collapse of the Theory of Evolution, The (2006)

Subject

Philosophy; Religious studies; Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £12.99

Two programmes from the series based on the works of the Turkish author and thinker Harun Yahya, who promotes a creationist view of Islam. THE COLLAPSE OF ATHEISM maintains that the history of mankind is now...

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Lost Centuries, The (8 Parts) (1968)

Subject

Archaeology; History

An 8-part television series made in 1968 looking at post-Roman Britain from the rise of Christianity and the influence of the later Islamic empires though to the beginning of the Renaissance. The series also...

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War of the World (2010)

Subject

History

A 6-part series of 60-minute programmes in which Professor Niall Ferguson presents a major history of the 20th century. He argues that the underpinning forces behind the conflicts of the last century were...

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African Schools (2005)

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies; Education

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £17.00

The complete series of 8 programmes about life in a primary and secondary school in Uganda. AFRICAN SCHOOL captures the daily lives, concerns and personalities of young Africans and their teachers in the...

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James May’s Twentieth Century (6 Parts) (2007)

aka: James May’s 20th Century

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £39.99

Documentary series about 20th century innovations. Separate programmes cover worldwide travel and communications, space exploration, how warfare drives ingenuity, emergence of the teenager, and urbanisation.

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