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Manuscripts of Timbuktu, The (2012)

Director

Zola Maseko

Producer

David Max Brown

Subject

Anthropology; Arabic studies; Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 52 minutes), $195.00

A film on how the legendary Timbuktu became one of the world’s leading scholarly and trading centres during the 12 - 15th centuries. It dispels the myth that Africa had no science or written culture before...

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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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Under African Skies (5 Parts) (1985 Video)

Producer

Mark Kidel; Michael Macintyre; Michael Raeburn; Richard Taylor

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 60 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £225.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series looking at the diverse music of Africa: where it comes from, what it means and where it is going. 1 (producer Michael Raeburn): Among all English-speaking African countries, the music of Zimbabwe has...

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Tribal Eye (2007)

Subject

Anthropology; Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 350 minutes), £19.99

In one of his first series after resigning as Controller of BBC2 and returning to programme-making, David Attenborough looks at art in tribal societies. During the eight programmes he visits a cliff-dwelling...

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CamÉra d’Afrique (1983 Video)

Director

Férid Boughedir

Producer

Férid Boughedir

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 95 min.

A survey of 20 years of black African film production from Sembene Ousmane’s Senegalese fictional short BOROM SARRET (1963) to Souleumane Cissé's 1983 feature FINYE (THE WIND). Includes clips from 18...

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Deported, The

Ibrahim Tandia from West Africa worked for fourteen years in Paris as a street cleaner. He slept on the floor of an immigrants’ hostel and the money he earned was sent back to his immediate family in Mali...

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Human Face, The (4 Programmes) (2008)

Subject

Biology; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (50 minutes), £75.00 (Part 1 only)

4-part series in which John Cleese embarks on a quest to unravel the secrets of the human face. First broadcast on BBC1 in 2001. 1) FACE TO FACE: how we use our faces to make friends and influence people....

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Great Migrations (2011)

Subject

Biology; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (272 minutes), $29.99 (Blu-ray) £19.99 (DVD)

A seven-part television series that follows the arduous journeys millions of animals undertake to ensure the survival of their species. Shot from land and air, in trees and cliff-blinds, on ice floes and...

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Henry IV. Part 1 (2000 Video)

Series

This England: The Histories

Director

Michael Attenborough

A video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2000 production of Henry IV. Part 1. Directed by Michael Attenborough with David Troughton as King Henry and Desmond Barrit as Falstaff.

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