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Quiet Village in Vietnam, A (1992 Video)

aka: Douceur du Village, La

Director

Michel Régnier

Producer

Gilles Péloquin

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min.

Profile of a remote village in northern Vietnam, showing the ancient rituals and timeless gestures of a people who have endured war and poverty with great dignity.

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Douceur du Village, La (1964 Film)

aka: Quiet Village in Vietnam, A

Director

François Reichenbach

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Sociological study of life in a French village. Music by Michel Legrand.

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Medieval Village (1935 Film)

Subject

Archaeology; History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Traces the history of Laxton, an English village, which used the open-field system of agriculture. From records and monuments a picture of the village in the middle ages is built up, and the modern...

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Village, The (2006)

Director

Jojo Tobbitt

Subject

Environmental science; Geography; History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £20,00

THE VILLAGE is a 30 minute documentary portraying one English village’s (Islip in Oxfordshire) struggle for survival. Including photography and archive material, the film traces the history of the village...

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Ouverture (1993)

Producer

Betty Talks

Subject

French studies

Distribution

Off-air recording licence

Contrasts Sunday in a village with a Sunday in a town. All is peaceful in the village in the early morning while the town is bustling with people going to the market. During the day, roles are reversed: the...

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Festa for San Gabriel, A (198 Video)

Director

Gregory Barrow; Paul Sant Cassia

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 43 min.

Documents aspects of the preparations for the annual village festa in honour of the patron saints (The Madonna and St Gabriel) of a village in Malta. Looks at the week prior to the celebration and the festa...

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To Taste a Hundred Herbs: Gods, Ancestors and Medicine in a Chinese Village (1986 Video)

Director

Richard Gordon; Carma Hinton

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 58 min.

The setting is Long Bow, a village 400 miles southwest of Beijing. Focuses on one family - the village doctor’s - and integrates the lives of individuals with larger issues. Dr Shen, a Roman Catholic,...

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Life Chances: Four Families in a Greek Cypriot Village (1974 Film, Video)

Director

Peter Loizos

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An account of social change in a prosperous Greek Cypriot village, following four closely related families before the Turks made them all refugees. Their lives reflect the possibilities available to...

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Bonds of Hope (1994 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., 1995 sale £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A portrait of village life and community-centred rural development in India. Shot in a village community, Vinobagram, in Tamil Nadu, it includes many interviews with the villagers and community workers. The...

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Church Eaton: Portrait of a Village (2011)

Director

Ray Johnson

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £12.99

Church Eaton is a typical rural community of about 750 people about seven miles from Stafford. This video looks at the archaeology and history of the village, its cattle, pigs and sheep farming, the green...

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