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Three Films on Language /Poland/Belarus: Integration, Internationalism, Nationalism (2011)

Director

Samuel Stevens

Subject

Languages; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 30 minutes), £115.00

DVD compilation of the three films: JARMARK EUROPA (2005), ESPERI (2005) and ZUBR (2006) that originate in a journey undertaken by the artist from Warsaw to the Belarusian National Park headquarters in...

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Mumias Sugar Scheme, The (1987 Video)

Producer

Pam Taylor

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

In the late 1960s the Kenyan government decided to explore the possibilities of sugar production in an area of north-west Kenya, near the town of Mumias. Looks at the historical background to the scheme, and...

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Germany’s Sense of Itself and the World’s Sense of Germany (2015)

Subject

History; Politics & government

A video podcast from the London Review of Books. Franziska Augstein, Süddeutsche Zeitung; Norbert Röttgen, Chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Foreign Affairs; Neal Ascherson, the Observer’s Central...

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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1993)

Director

Mark Achbar; Peter Wintonick

Producer

Mark Achbar; Peter Wintonick

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 167 + 215 minutes), £19.56

In an energetic fusion of images and ideas, Manufacturing Consent explores the political life and ideas of the controversial author, linguistic scholar, radical philosopher and activist, Noam Chomsky. Using...

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Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS? One Year on (2008)

Subject

Business studies; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £10.00

One year later after his first visit, Gerry Robinson revisits Rotherham General Hospital to see how they are coping. What he finds both surprises and delights him. The hospital is now run efficiently,...

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Last Party 2000 (2004)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £19.99

An exploration of the state of democracy in the modern day United States of America. Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting the campaign...

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Viva L’Italia (1961)

aka: Garibaldi

Director

Roberto Rossellini (1906-177)

Subject

History; Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 129 minutes), £15.00/£12.00

To celebrate the centenary of the unification of Italy, the Italian government commissioned Rossellini to make a biopic of Giuseppe Garibaldi and his 1860 campaign to unify Italy. The result is visually...

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Martin Luther King Jr: Been to the Mountaintop (2008)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 71 minutes), £17.99

Seen and heard in this original footage are highlights of dramatic speeches and conversations of Martin Luther King Jr spanning 1956 to 1968, including his last address on April 3, 1968, the night before his...

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Prime Ministers, The: Series One (2011)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 120 minutes), £10.49

This BBC radio series presents eight fifteen minute profiles of notable British Prime Ministers. Sir Robert Walpole, the first and longest-serving prime minister; Lord North, remembered as the prime minister...

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Spain’s Secret Conflict (2010)

aka: Catalonia, The Next State in Europe?

Director

Gary Gibson

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 39 minutes), €15.00

Made back in 2010, when the conflict between Catalonia and Spain was very little known outside the Spanish State, this short documentary starts with the first independence poll to take place in Catalonia...

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