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American Buffalo (1995 Video)

Director

Michael Corrente

Producer

Gregory Mosher

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 83 min., 1998 sale: £14.99 (+VAT +p&p)

A three-character, single set piece in which a junk shop the owner and his friend scheme to retrieve a valuable American buffalo coin. Adapted by David Mamet from his play ‘American Buffalo’, first...

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Old Man of Buffalo, The (1992 Video)

aka: Images of Atlantis: The Photography of Milton Rogovin

Director

Peter Wollen

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Milton Rogovin, age 82 and living in Buffalo, New York, began taking photographs in the 1950s. The programme looks at his work and talks to subjects of his photos.

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Where the Buffalo Roam (1993 Video)

Director

Brian Leith

Producer

Amanda Aneunissen; Brian Leith

Subject

Agriculture; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Follows the fortunes of the farming communities in the Midwest of the United States, where they have been devastated by over-exploitation of the land. Profits have plummeted, costs soared, as the wells - dug...

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Now That the Buffalo’s Gone (1969 Film, Video)

Director

Ross Devenish

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The history of the American Indian from the first white settlers to 1969.

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Interviews with Scientists: William Greatbatch (2009)

Subject

Medical sciences; Physics

Wilson Greatbatch, who originally graduated from Cornell and Buffalo universities, is known for advancing the development of early implantable cardiac pacemakers. In this interview he discusses his work.

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Organising for Power: The Alinsky Approach Series (4 Parts) (1968 Film, Video)

Director

Bonny Klein

Producer

Barrie Howells

Subject

Politics & government; Social welfare

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Series examining Saul Alinsky’s method of organising communities into effective action units based on participatory democracy. In part 1, a group of concerned citizens from Dayton, Ohio consult Alinsky on...

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Bridging the Gap: Persistence (2013)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), Free

Four new directors and short films on the theme of "Persistence" commissioned by Scottish Documentary Institute (2013) BUFFALO DREAMS: (dir. Maurice O’Brien) NAE PASARAN: (dir. Felipe Bustos Sierra)...

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Holy Land: A Year in the West Bank (2014)

Director

Peter Cohn

Subject

History; Politics & government; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 80 minutes), $295

A documentary about the Palestine-Israel conflict in the West Bank. The film focuses on the issue of the Israeli settlements: its protagonists are both Israeli settlers and the Israelis and Palestinians who...

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Wild West, The (2 Parts) (1995 Video)

Director

Ric Burns

Producer

Lisa Ades; Ric Burns

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 214, 215 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive) each volume

A series examining the history of the Native Americans as white Americans moved west in the mid-19th century. The programmes combine archival phogtographs, period paintings and early motion picture footage...

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Human Factor in Evolution, The (1992 Video)

Producer

David Jackson

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Consists of illustrations and comments on the various ways human intervention as affected natural evolutionary processes. Examples: primitive husbandry and its effects (saami reindeer); artificial selection...

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