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History Around You, Series

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Tuktu (1985 Video)

Director

Graham Johnston

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 47 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Tuktu is the Kuvanmiit Eskimo word for caribou. The film traces the early evolution of Ambler, founded in the mid-1950s on the Kobuk River in Alaska. Change and development characterise life in this village...

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Seeds on Earth (2002)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC, 36 minutes), £50.00 +VAT +p&p

Seed on Earth is a film about everyday life in rural Bengal (village of Janta, near Bishnupur town). It follows the daily schedule of two families and observes the complenentarity and difference of gender...

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Farmers of Gaho (1996 Video)

Subject

Agriculture; Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 21 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

All too often dry lands are dismissed as unproductive regions, with agriculture collapsing in the face of desertifiction. But this need not be so. In southern Ethiopia the farmers of the village of Gaho,...

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Soulcaking at Antrobus (1975 Film, Video)

Director

John S Murray

Producer

Anthony E Green

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Every year at Hallowe’en a gang of men from the village of Antrobus, Cheshire, perform a traditional play in the pubs and village halls of the neighbourhood. The film shows a performance at the Wheatsheaf...

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Tingvong: A Lepcha Village in Sikkim (2006)

Director

Dawa T Lepcha

Subject

Agriculture; Anthropology; Development studies; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

Ilustrates the changes the Lepcha of the Dzongu reserve, North Sikkim, have been through in the last 60 years. From the 1940s, the Lepcha of Tingvong village gradually abandoned hunting, gathering and the...

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Albanians of Rrogam, The (1991 Video)

Director

David Wason

Producer

David Wason

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the village of Rrogam, about 45 houses in a valley in northern Albania. The Rrogamis only settled there after World War 2, moving from the village of Thethi across the mountains. Looks at the...

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Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany - Set 1 (1984)

aka: Heimat: Eine Deutsche Chronik

Subject

German studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 924 minutes), £59.99

Shot over two years, Edgar Reitz’s 11-part series HEIMAT, made for German television, is a semi-autobiographical drama telling the the saga of a German family, living in a small village, from the end of...

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Diary of a Maasai Village, The (5 Parts) (1984 Video)

Producer

Melissa Llewellyn-Davies

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 50 min.

How the Maasai live today. The programmes are structured as a film diary of a seven-week visit to a single village, with each part covering a period of a week to ten days following several events.

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Moving on (1999 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale - see BEYOND RED, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., See: BEYOND RED

Three 8-minute films: 1) AIRPORT: A new wave of hostile nationalism is driving ethnic Germans from Kazakhstan, where they have lived for over 100 years. This film shows German families departing for Germany...

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