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Mafia No! (1967 Film)

Director

John Irvin

Producer

David Naden; Jane Wood

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A portrait of Danilo Dolci and his fight against poverty and the Mafia in Sicily. The commentary consists almost entirely of transcripts from an interview with Danilo Dolci.

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Changes in Rural Society: Piedmont and Sicily (1996 Video)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Land use maps in the Italian state archives in Turin archives are used to research social and economic conditions in the regions of Piedmont - the hilly Langhe with sparse mixed farming, the flat Po valley,...

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Fire at Sea (2016)

Director

Gianfranco Rosi

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (108 minutes), £6.99

Situated 150 miles south of Sicily, Lampedusa has hit headlines as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern refugees hoping to make a new life in Europe. After spending...

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Town in Sicily, A (2015)

Director

Toni de Bromhead

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

DVD (120 minutes), £50.00

Castellammare is a ‘high-density Mafia’ seaside town: its local government is infiltrated, its economy is stagnant and there is no future for its youth. This documentary is the result of a five-month...

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Stolen Children, The (1992)

aka: Ladro di Bambini, Il

Director

Gianni Amelio

Subject

Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 114 minutes), £15.99

This proze-winning film tells the story of a young policeman who escorts two young children back to their native Sicily after their mother is arrested.

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Under the Volcano (1992 Video)

Producer

David Jackson

Subject

Geology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 72 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows how absolute, static and dynamic gravity surveys are carried out in the field. The volcanoes studied include Poas in Costa Rica and Etna in Sicily.

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Inside Volcanoes (1984 Video)

Subject

Geology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Volcanoes produce a wide variety of different features on the surface, which are often controlled by the viscosity of the magma, which is in turn controlled by its composition and the temperature at which it...

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Warwork News. No 27 (1943 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

'Warwork News’ is a series of short newsreels produced during World War 2 for distribution in British factories. 1) ‘The other man’s job’, a theme that appeared in many issues of Warwork News - in...

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Italy (2000 Video)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

Originally broadcast as 5 separate 20-minute programmes examining Italy’s new geographica trends - globalisation and ide-industrialisation and Italy’s position in the EU. The programmes span the crucial...

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CBS World War II Radio Broadcasts (2003)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, CD-ROM (Hybrid, 2,200+ minutes), $9.99

An MP3 audio CD-ROM of the renowned CBS "World NewsToday" War news radio show featuring the broadcasts of Edward R Murrow, William L Shirer, Robert Trout, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Douglas...

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