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Once Upon a Time in Iran (2006)

aka: Pilgrimage to Karbala

Director

Kevin Sim

Producer

Rebecca Dobbs

Subject

Politics & government; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £12.99

In the summer of 2006,a bus full of pilgrims left Tehran in Iran on the dangerous journey to Karbala in Iraq. ONCE UPON A TIME IN IRAN follows this breath-taking journey - a spiritual and emotional...

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Unknown Known, The (2014)

Director

Errol Morris

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes), £11.99

Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris presents a portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, who served as George W. Bush’s Secretary of Defense and was the principal architect of the Iraq War. Rather than conducting a...

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Harold Pinter: Art Truth & Politics: The Nobel Lecture 2005 (2006)

Subject

Drama; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 46 minutes), £14.99

In late 2005 Harold Pinter videotaped a lecture on the occasion of the award to him of the Nobel Prize for Literature. His speech, delivered directly to camera, is a complex reflection on his own writing...

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9/11 Trilogy (2015)

Director

Laura Poitras

Subject

Arabic studies; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 250 minutes), £9.99

Three feature documentaries from documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras: CITIZENFOUR (2014) about Edward Snowden and the National Security Agency, THE OATH (2010) reporting on Guantanamo Bay, and MY COUNTRY, MY...

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Saddam’s Road to Hell (2006)

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

DVD

Filmmaker Gwynne Roberts and a team of investigators led by Dr Mohammed Ihsan, Kurdistan’s Human Rights Minister, set off in an armoured convey across postwar Iraq to find out what happened to 8,000...

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Politics of Violence (1997 Video)

Producer

Lucy Carter

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to illustrate political violence in the 20th century. Looks at Saddam Hussain in Iraq, the ‘Troubles’ in Ireland, Joseph Stalin in Russia, Adolf Hitler in Nazi...

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War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 45 minutes), $195.00

Norman Solomon analyses the strategies used by US administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to promote their agendas for war, from Vietnam to Iraq. By highlighting the techniques of war propaganda,...

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Great Speeches in Parliament: 10 Years of Mptv (1999 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 250 min., 1999 sale: £19.99 (inclusive)

Eighty-five clips from the last ten years of Parliament, marking the tenth anniversary of televised broadcasting from the House of Commons. Includes Margaret Thatcher’s ‘no, no, no’, Sir Geoffrey...

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Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror

Director

John Pilger; Steve Connelly

Producer

Christopher Martin; Richard Clemmow

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), $295.00 [Institutional licence]

Award-winning journalist John Pilger investigates the discrepancies between American and British claims for the ‘war on terror’ and the facts on the ground as he finds them in Afghanistan and Washington,...

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Tony Benn: Speaking Up in Parliament (1994 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1996 sale: £11.00 (+VAT +p&p) (BUFVC)

Extracts from speeches made in in the House of Commons by Tony Benn, Socialist MP for Chesterfield. Topics include pit closures (21 Oct 92), fox hunting (14 Feb 92), nuclear weapons (14 Jan 92), the...

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