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First Emperor of China, The (1989 Video)

Director

Tony Ianzelo; Lui Hao Xue

Producer

Pan Han Ci; Barrie Howells

Subject

Archaeology; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 42 minutes), £12.99

Historical drama chronicling the life of Qin Shihuang, the founder and first emperor of China. Includes the first documentary footage of Qin’s life-sized terra cotta army, constructed for his tomb some...

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Diya (2002)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC, 55 minutes), £50.00 +VAT +p&p

A diya is a small terra cotta oil lamp used throughout India in Hindu ceremonies. The film follows the life history of an object through the every day experience of people who make, sell and use it in the...

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My Voyage to Italy

Subject

Film & television production; Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 246 minutes), £7.99

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese gained great inspiration from the Italian films he watched in his youth and others that made an impact later on in his life, changing the way he made films. My Voyage To Italy...

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Planets, The (1999)

Producer

David McNab

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 400 minutes), £34.99

An account of space exploration and discovery from the first attempts to magnify the sky to space travel. Contains computer-created footage, actual footage shot from spacecraft and archive film. Narrated by...

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Birdwatchers (2010)

aka: (Terra Degli Uomini Rossi, La

Director

Marco Bechis

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 108 minutes), £15.99

A drama in which a group of indigenous people face off against the modern day owners of their ancestral homeland.In Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the farming classes lead a wealthy and leisurely existence....

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Great White Silence, The (1924)

Director

Herbert G Ponting

Subject

Film studies; Geography; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 110 minutes), £19.99

Henry Ponting’s extraordinary official record of Captain Scott’s legendary final expedition to the South Pole, fully restored by the BFI National Archive, with a new musical score by Simon Fisher Turner,...

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Hidden Wars in the Middle East (2003)

aka: Hidden Wars of Desert Storm

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale Hire, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £14.99 (sale) £7.00 + £20 deposit hire (OPC)

A documentary offering insights about the history of Western involvement in the Middle-East, about the situation that led to the Gulf war after Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, about the hidden US...

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