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  1. Trees of Hope (1985 Film, Video)

    Director
    Neil McKee
    Subject
    Agriculture; Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Documents the rapid deforestation of Africa and analyses various solutions such as shifting to solar energy and improving traditional stores. Shot in Niger, Mali, Sengal and Nigeria, it shows how people are...

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  2. Bombay: Our City (1985 Video)

    Director
    Anand Patwardhan
    Producer
    Anand Patwardhan
    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 82 min.

    Relates the daily battle for survival of the four million slum dwellers of Bombay, who constitute half of the city’s population. They are the workforce of Bombay: the industrial labour, the construction...

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  3. Plough and the Hoe, The. Part 2: Village Life in Bihar (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Discusses the violence of relations between landlords and farm workers in the Begusarai district of Bihar, a backward and feudal area where low pay, landlessness and debt bondage are still common among...

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  4. Plough and the Hoe, The. Part 5: A Time for Change (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Development studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Shows how West Bengal’s socialist government is trying to combine the objectives of greater social justice and agricultural modernisation, suggesting that despite setbacks, progress is being made....

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  5. Migrants from Sakaltutan (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Economics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Shows how migrants from Sakaltutan have travelled further afield in search of prosperity - to other Turkish cities, to the Middle East and to Germany (e.g. Pforzheim) from about 1963. They live frugally,...

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  6. Dateline: San Salvador (1986 Video)

    Director
    Pamela Cohen
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Video cassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min.

    After years of government repression, 80,000 people risked their lives on May 1st 1976 to take part in a protest march and demand an end to the civil war. Documents that march and explores the peoples’...

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  7. Migration: The Ankara Response (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Economics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    In Turkey, as in many developing countries, rural migrants come to the big cities where they build their own homes, often illegally. Considers the problem this migration causes and seeks to answer questions...

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  8. Rock-A-Bye Baby (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1993 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p) each; 2 programmes on 1 cassette - £30.00 (+VAT +p&p); the whole set - £100 (+VAT +p&p)

    The eight-part CUTTING EDGE series, filmed at Oxford University, examines the skills, methods and attitudes necessary to be a top scientist. Each programme looks at the ‘cutting edge’ of scientific...

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  9. Politics of Food, The (4 Parts) (1987 Video)

    Director
    Peter A Gordon; Ian McFarlane
    Producer
    Chris Bryer
    Subject
    Agriculture; Development studies
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col 4 x 52 min., 1996 sale: £35.00 (+VAT +p&p) series (AVP)

    1: Studies the high level of hunger and malnutrition in Sudan. 2: Looks at the relationship between the Western farmer and the peasants of the Third World and examines how decisions made in the US and Europe...

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  10. Fate of the Forests (1983)

    Director
    Alan Pendry
    Producer
    Douglas Gordon
    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 27 min.

    Assesses the causes and effects of destroying tropical rainforests. Rural families of the Third World need firewood for fuel and timber is a valuable currency earner. Describes the efforts being made...

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