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Blindsight (2009)

Director

Lucy Walker

Subject

Psychology; Social Studies; Sports science

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £15.99

An uplifting documentary that follows six blind Tibetan teenagers as they set out on a three-week expedition to climb the 23,000-foot peak Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest, led by two blind...

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Day That Panicked America, The: H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds Scandal (2005)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 60 minutes), $9.99

Examines the events surrounding the broadcast in 1938 of Orson Welles’ radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds which caused panic when thousands of Americans thought the world was coming to an...

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Coming War on China, The (2016)

Director

John Pilger

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 130 minutes), £17.99

John Pilger directs this documentary about a potential nuclear war between the United States of America and China. Pilger makes the case that, though the media are unlikely to tell you so, these two rival...

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God Loves Uganda (2013)

Director

David Ross Williams

Subject

Religious studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 83 minutes), $24.95

Int his film filmmaker Roger Ross Williams explores the role of the American Evangelical movement in fuelling Uganda’s turn towards Biblical law and the proposed death penalty for homosexuality. Thanks to...

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Farewell Israel: Bush, Iran and the Revolt of Islam (2008)

Director

Joel Gilbert

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 145 minutes), ££14.99

A political documentary revealing Israel and The West’s misunderstanding of Islam and the tragic consequences this will have. It is a historic journe, from the birth of Islam, through its 1,200 year reign...

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Radio Gallery: Programme 6 - Propaganda (2006)

Subject

History; Media studies

This exhibition explores the uses of the radio as a tool for propaganda during times of ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ war. It begins in World War II with a compilation of German and Italian propaganda aimed at...

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Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, The (2017)

Director

Ken Burns; Lynn Novick

Subject

American Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1080 minutes), £69.95

This 18-hour documentary offers an in-depth analysis of one of the most divisive and controversial events in American history: the Vietnam War. Episodes include: 1-Déjà vu (1858-1961): After a century of...

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History of Advertising - Automobiles 1940-1950 (2004)

Subject

Business studies; Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 38 minutes), £15.99

A compilation of classic American automobile advertising films and examples of car-centric stories from the 1940s and the early days of television. It includes classic "Capitalistic Realist" dramas showing...

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Space Race Films 1957-1965 (2006)

Subject

History; Media studies; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 75 minutes), $9.99

14 films, including advertisements, newsreels, depicting the struggle between the US and the USSR to achieve supremacy in space

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Strangers Abroad (6 Parts) (1985 Video)

aka: Strangers Abroad: Pioneers of Social Anthropology

Director

André Singer

Producer

André Singer

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (6 x 52 minutes), £60.00 each part or £300 the series

Series on the first anthropologists to go out to live among the peoples who interested them. Retraces the steps of these pioneering anthropologists in the countries where they worked and, through their...

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