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Picture of Health (8 Parts) (1984 Video)

Subject

Development studies; Health & safety; Social welfare

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 50 min., 1993 sale: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

Films intended to challenge the notion that ill-health is a matter merely for individual concern, arguing that society is also involved, and change must come about through political action. 1: Argues that...

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Cold War (6 Parts) (1998 Video)

Producer

Jeremy Isaacs; Pat Mitchell; Martin Smith

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 6 x 180 min., 1998 sale: £19.99 (inclusive) each

Documentary series recounting the 45 years of the postwar era from the end of World War 2 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. Includes footage distilled from over 1000 hours and more than 600...

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Wheels of Fire (10 Parts) (1983 Video)

Director

Julian Stenhouse

Producer

Howard Smith

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 10 x 30 min.

The series examines some of Indias’s more successful development schemes which are transforming the lives of communities throughout the sub-continent. The programmes focus on the individual lives of men,...

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Case Studies for Politics (1995 Multimedia)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

CD-ROM

Case studies for teaching politics, using a student-centred, problem-based method pioneered at the Harvard Business School. ‘Cases’ are based on real, disguised or imaginary problems which students are...

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Stem Cells: The Promise (2005)

aka: Curing the Incurable/ How to Live Forever

Director

David Malone

Producer

David Paterson

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 100 minutes), £15.99

STEM CELLS: THE PROMISE consists of two documentaries made for Channel 4’s "Equinox" series. The first part, BEGINNINGS, (originally broadcast in 1999 under the the title CURING THE INCURABLE) is an...

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Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi (2014)

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science; Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 179 minutes), £29.99 (inclusive)

Two of the three films from the Qatsi trilogy. They are cinematic essays on the impact of technological progress on the earth and its peoples, set to scores by Philip Glass. The photographic effects,...

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Heroes: The Films of John Pilger 1970 - 2007 (2008)

Subject

History; Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 2538 minutes), £30.00

"HEROES..." is the first, definitive collection of ground-breaking documentaries from John Pilger’s career as a world renowned film-maker, author and investigative journalist. The title, Heroes, is taken...

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Charlie Rose Science Series, The (2007)

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC), $24.95 each

The Charlie Rose Science Series is a continuing series broadcast on PBS throughout the US which explores the advances being made in biomedical research, their contribution to our understanding of the world...

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Black Girl/Borom Sarret

Date

14 Sep 2016, 13:16

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Black Girl/Borom Sarret 2015. GB. DVD. BFI. 80 mins. £19.99. About the Reviewer: David Murphy is Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of...

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