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  1. Guardians of the Flute (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    Looks at a coming-of-age rite among the Sambia, who live in an isolated valley in the highlands of New Guinea. In order to inherit the courage and virity of their elders, boys as young as seven must swallow...

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  2. Toys (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 8 min., 1998 hire: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) 1998 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A short film without commentary with the message that war toys do not necessarily make warriors, but it is possible that they give a false glamour to war.

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  3. Battle of Rorke’s Drift, The (1996 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min.

    Uses re-enactments, dramatised eye-witness accounts, period images and photographs to tell the story of the handful of British Redcoats who successfully defended Rorke’s Drift against more than 4000 Zulu...

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  4. Entombed Warriors, The (1984)

    Director
    Bob Kingsbury
    Producer
    Rob McAuley
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 45 minutes), $7.49

    Based on the archaeological dig outside Xian in 1974 which unearthed a 6000-strong life size terracotta army and the tomb of Qin Shi Huang Di, the first Emperor of China. Tells the story of his reign....

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  5. Warriors (1999 Video)

    Director
    Peter Kosminsky
    Producer
    Nigel Stafford-Clark
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 180 min.

    Drama following a group of young British soldiers from the Cheshire Regiment, sent as UN peacekeepers to the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992. Written by Leigh Jackson.

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  6. Masai Manhood (1975 Film, Video)

    Director
    Chris Curling
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £30.00

    Focuses on the significance of the Masai age-set system, and, in particular, on the dramatic Eunoto ceremony which marks the important transition from warriorhood, during which the ‘warriors’ live for...

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  7. First Emperor of China, The (1994 Multimedia)

    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    Documents the finding of an entire army of 7000 pottery soldiers in Xian, China, guarding the tomb of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang Di (221-206 BC), who succeeded in unifying China and completing...

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  8. Milk and Bullets (1998 Video)

    aka: Gun for Sale

    Director
    Richard Alwyn
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Tells the story of how the arrival of firearms has challenged the traditional way of life in Karamoja in Uganda. In a tribe whose men are traditionall warriors and cattle raiders, and older warrior attempts...

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  9. France ActualitÉs. No 23 (1944 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    This issue of the Vichy newsreel released in May 1944 shows: 1) Ruins of historical and religious monuments and ordinary housing throughout France ‘devastated by those who call themselves our...

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  10. Beowulf & Grendel (2005)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £17.99

    An adaptation of the classic Anglo-Saxon heroic poem. Beowulf (Gerard Butler) leads a troop of warriors across the sea to help an old friend, King Rothgar (Stellan Skarsgard) whose kingdom is being ravaged...

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