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24 Square Miles and Harting - An English Village (2005)

Subject

Geography; History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 62 mintues), £19.99

Two films from the 1940s depicting rural life in Oxfordshire and Sussex at the time.

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Intermediate Technology: Micro Hydro

Date released

1981

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

268

NoS ID

326072

Story no

3 / 3

COI synopsis: Our modern high tech society devours the landscape in an endless, thirsty quest for energy. The Intermediate Technology Group is determined that the developing world should not waste its...

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Change of Heart, A: English Architecture Since the War (1992 Video)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 10 min.

Illustrates the unsuspected wealth and range of archtecture and design created in England’s cities, towns and countryside since World War 2.

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Burston School Strike, The (1974 Film)

Director

Stephen Peet

Subject

Education; Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

In 1914 the children of Burston in Norfolk went on strike in protest against the sacking of their teachers Annie and Tom Higdon. The strike lasted 20 years. Mrs Higdon, head of the school, and Tom, her...

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Plough and the Hoe, The. Part 2: Village Life in Bihar (1984 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Discusses the violence of relations between landlords and farm workers in the Begusarai district of Bihar, a backward and feudal area where low pay, landlessness and debt bondage are still common among...

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People’s Communes, The (1973 Film)

Director

Felix Greene

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The commune system in China and how it works countrywide.

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Challenges of Urbanisation (2009)

aka: Challenges in Urbanisation: Inequality in Bangalore

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 40 minutes), £45.00

An up-to-date, adaptable and engaging resource for the learning and teaching of development, poverty and inequalities. It takes Bangalore as a case study and looks at the causes and impacts of urban poverty,...

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India: Space for Education (1986 Video)

Producer

John Stratford

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

In 1983 India launched its own multifunctional satellite INSAT 1B to relay telephone, television, radio and data signals across the Indian sub-continent, as well as to collect meteorological data from its...

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Forgotten Village, The (1941)

Director

Alexander Hammid; Herbert Kline

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies; Geography; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 65 minutes), £10.99

Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village in the early years of the 20th century. Alexander Hammid, famous for his...

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Cheap Energy for Tomorrow Today (1993 Video)

Subject

Development studies; Information technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

Discusses the potential of biomass as a renewable energy source. Describes the importance of fuel-efficient wood stoves in Kenya to complement the development of agro-forestry as a sustainable source of...

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