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Desmond Tutu (1984 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col., £35.00

Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1984, talks about his life in relation to the complexities of South Africa.

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Recent additions to the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway

Date

8 Apr 2013, 14:23

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

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The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,300 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or...

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Nobel - The Man (2001)

Subject

Chemistry

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 10 minutes), £ 15 per item or £ 100 for the whole set (inclusive)

One of a series of 13 short films about remarkable scientific discoveries by Nobel prizewinners and their colleagues. This programme is a biography of Alfred Bernhard Nobel - the Swede who invented dynamite....

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Elie Wiesel (1986 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col., £35.00

Professor Elie Wiesel, Judaic scholar and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1986, and a Holocaust survivor, discusses his how he is motivated by the ‘writer as witness’ concept.

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Albert Einstein: How I See the World (1995 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC only). col. 60 min., 2004 sale: $24.90 (+p&p)

Chronicles how Einstein became an advocate for peace, using excerpts from his diaries, personal letters and writings. Looks at some of the 20th century’s most important events from Einstein’s point of...

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Aung San Suu Kyi’s Keynote Address to the Ngo Forum on Women, Beijing 1995 (1995 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 17 min., 1999 sale: £6.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

In her keynote address to the NGO forum on women in Beijing in 1995, Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi voices some of the common hopes which unite women all over the world. She is particularly concerned...

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Martin Luther King Jr: Been to the Mountaintop (2008)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 71 minutes), £17.99

Seen and heard in this original footage are highlights of dramatic speeches and conversations of Martin Luther King Jr spanning 1956 to 1968, including his last address on April 3, 1968, the night before his...

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Nobel’s Greatest Hits: Medicine (2003)

aka: Understand Medicine: Nobel’s Greatest Hits Explained

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £15.99

Five programmes from the series NOBEL’S GREATEST HITS on topics relating to medicine and one on Nobel himself. Each 10-minute programme gives a clear explanation of a major advance in medicine.

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Dialogues (2008)

Subject

Philosophy

Nobel Prize-winner and best-selling author Elie Wiesel explores compelling issues of moral responsibility in this provocative series made for US television channel PBS. DIALOGUES, moderated by Richard D....

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Micro Debt, The (2011)

Director

Tom Heinemann

Subject

Development studies; Economics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 57 minutes), 28 euros

A critical investigation into the dark side of microcredit, for decades hailed as the key to eradicating poverty in developing countries. However, interest rates from 30 to 200% often make it impossible to...

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