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Navaho: The Last Red Indians (1973 Film)

Producer

Michael Barnes

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the survival of the traditional way of life of the Navaho Indian on a remote plateau in North America. In particular, looks at various primitive methods of medicine, many of which white doctors claim...

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America in the Fifties: The Fear and the Dream (2001 Video)

Producer

Nancy Button

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

After World War 2, Americans were gripped by new terrors: rising Soviet military power and the spectre of nuclear annihiliation. Sheltered in rapidly expanding suburbs, newly affluent couples...

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House I Live in, The (2013)

Director

Eugene Jarecki

Subject

Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £9.99

Director Eugene Jarecki explores America’s war on drugs in this documentary as he exposes the risks that prohibition poses to freedom, and the tragedy of addicts being treated as criminals. In the four...

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Appeal from the Rainforest, An (1990 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 10 min.

Shows the effects of mining in the rain forest. Davi Yanomami makes the first-ever visit by a Yanomami spokesperson to Europe, to appeal for acknowledgement of Yonomami land rights. He also collects the...

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Life in the Amazon (1992 Video)

aka: Vivre en Amazonie

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min.

Looks at the Huni Kui people who live deep in the Amazonian rainforest in harmony with their environment - a free society who follow the rhythm of the seasons, the rain, the river, the feasts and the farming.

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Alistair Cooke’s ‘Letter from America’ Vol 2 (1995 Audio)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 180 min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

A selection of 12 ‘Letter from America’ broadcasts since 1969 chosen by Cooke himself. Topics include the eight-year-old girl who started the American civil rights movement, reflections on 1960s’...

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Digging for Slaves (1989 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Between the 16th and the 19th centuries, ten million Africans were kidnapped and sold into slavery in America. Now archaeologists are uncovering evidence of the realities of slave life and discovering the...

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Dick Cavett’s Vietnam (2015)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £14.99

In conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon (30 April 1975) and the end of America’s presence in Vietnam, ‘Dick Cavett’s Vietnam’ re-examines the conflict and its impact on America...

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Fellow Traveller (1989 Video)

Director

Philip Saville

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 97 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

A McCarthy period thriller in which a blacklisted scriptwriter attempts to investigate the death of an actor friend and the role played in it by their Marxist psychotherapist. Highlights the differing moods...

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Cholera (1992 Video)

Director

Chris Warren

Producer

Bob Thorpe

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the reasons behind the return of cholera to South America in 1991 for the first time in 100 years, and its rapid spread throughout the continent. New economic and political factors are involved, and...

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