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Gaza on Air (2009)

Director

Samir Abdallah

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 90 minutes), £12.00

This rare documentary bears witness to atrocities committed by Israel in Gaza in 2009, defying the Israeli embargo on journalists entering Gaza A group of Palestinian journalists risked their lives to...

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Transplanting Hope (2018)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $19.99

This programme takes the viewer inside the operating room to witness the emotional, high-stakes process of transferring organs from donors to recipients. Meet families navigating both sides of the transplant...

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Memoirs of Women Who Went to War, The (2003)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 58 minutes), £10.00

Eye-witness accounts by women who contributed to the British war effort during World War 2. Includes the Royals, the WAAF, the WRNS, the ATS, the WVS, the AFS, Air Raid Wardens, Civil Defence, Women’s...

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Discussions in Bioethics Series: The Courage of One’s Convictions (1986 Video)

Director

Gil Cardinal

Producer

Wolf Koenig; Andy Thomson

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 14 min., 1996 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p)

A short, open-ended drama designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics in relation to modern medical technology. A Jehovah’s Witness of 17 with leukemia is forbidden by her religion to have blood...

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Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark (2011)

Subject

Geography; Politics & government

Bahrain: An island kingdom in the Arabian Gulf where the Shia Muslim majority are ruled by a family from the Sunni minority. Where people fighting for democratic rights broke the barriers of fear, only to...

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Exodus: Our Journey to Europe (2016)

Subject

Social Studies

Three part documentary series filmed using camera phones by people smuggling themselves into Europe. Episode one begins with a look at the thousands of Syrian refugees arrive in the Turkish port of Izmir....

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There is Nothing Wrong with My Uncle (2012)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 62 minutes), £50.00

Nigerian writer Dul Johnson returns to the land of the Tarok people in Nigeria to observe the local death rituals and the Tarok ways of dealing with grief and honouring the departed. This film provides a...

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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

Director

Marc Rothemund

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 115 minutes), £4.00

Feature film about Sophie Scholl based on the activities of the White Rose Resistance group which took place in Munich in 1945 when siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, instigated passive resistance in an...

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War Against the Zulus, The (1996 Video)

aka: Zulu Wars 1879 - The Disaster at Isandlwhana

Subject

History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min.

Uses battle reconstructions from the film ZULU DAWN, further reconstructions and re-enactments, dramatised eye-witness accounts, and 3-D mapping techniques to tell the story of the slaughter at Isandlwhana,...

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Nicaragua: Report from the Front (1984 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 32 min.

American journalists look at United States foreign policy toward Nicaragua particularly along the border between Nicaragua and Honduras. They were able to film the first footage of the secret...

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