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Coming Home to Banaba (1998 Video)

Producer

Jeremy Cooper

Subject

Geography; Sociology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

People who used to live on the tiny Pacific island of Banaba return to see the devastation wrought by 80 years of phosphate mining. Once a British colony, Banaba was a source of the phosphate that fertilised...

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People of Porgera (1984 Video)

Director

John Davis

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £27.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A film made of the Porgera people in Papua New Guinea before gold was discovered. Shows their courting ceremony, and a sing-sing; discusses marriage and bride price, wealth, debt and payback, salt, stone...

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Australia’s Water Crisis: Climate Change, Salinisation (2009)

Subject

Agriculture; Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes), £97.00

Film 1 THE BIG DRY: Farmers in south-east Australia are suffering their worst drought in living memory. It’s a question of adapt or go under. Film 2 THE SALT PROBLEM: White settlers tried to use water to...

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Rugged Islands, The (1934)

Director

Jenny Brown; Werner Kissing

Subject

Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 85 minutes), £19.99

Four rare films from the 1930s and 1950s depicting various aspects of island life in some of Scotland’s most remote communities. Includes the following four films: THE RUGGED ISLAND - A SHETLAND LYRIC...

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Whicker’s World Volume 4

Subject

Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 232 minutes), £10.03

A cultural icon, consummate interviewer and guiding light behind some of the most popular documentaries ever made, Alan Whicker’s quiet brand of incisive, insightful television journalism has enthralled...

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Strangers Abroad (6 Parts) (1985 Video)

aka: Strangers Abroad: Pioneers of Social Anthropology

Director

André Singer

Producer

André Singer

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (6 x 52 minutes), £60.00 each part or £300 the series

Series on the first anthropologists to go out to live among the peoples who interested them. Retraces the steps of these pioneering anthropologists in the countries where they worked and, through their...

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Whicker’s World Volume 2 (2009)

Subject

Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 400 minutes), £19.56

A cultural icon, consummate interviewer and guiding light behind some of the most popular documentaries ever made, Alan Whicker’s quiet brand of incisive, insightful television journalism has enthralled...

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