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  1. Kalagas: Burmese Embroidered Tapestries (1999 Video)

    Producer
    Janet Willougby
    Subject
    Anthropology; Crafts
    Distribution
    DVD

    Shows the process of producing kalagas in the Mandalay area of Burma. The padded embroideries of Burma are virtually unique. Their combination of legendary figures and animals, sequins, stones and mirrors...

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  2. Guest Speaker

    Date
    28 Sep 2016, 16:55
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    Page

    Guest speaker: James Holland This year’s guest speaker is historian, writer and broadcaster, James Holland. The author of the best-selling Fortress Malta, Battle of Britain, and Dam Busters, he...

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  3. Longest Struggle, The: Karen of Burma (1993 Video)

    Producer
    John Sheppard
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at Burma where, for 50 years, the Karen have been fighting a vicious battle for independence against one of the most repressive regimes in the world.

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  4. Burma Victory (1944 Video)

    Director
    Roy Boulting
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Special loan (film - IWM Dept of Film), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 63 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Official British war film depicting the Burma campaign, remembered bitterly by veterans and ‘the forgotten war’ - from 1942 to the capitulation of the Japanese in Rangoon. When the Japanese invasion of...

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  5. Burma: Railway of Death (1997 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 45 min., 1997 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    The story of the building of the Burma-Thailand railway by British prisoners of war during World War 2, combining the recollections of ex-prisoners who were involved with Japanese propaganda films of the time.

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  6. Burma Vj (2010)

    Director
    Anders Ostergaard
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £9.99

    A remarkable documentary that tells the story of the Burmese photojournalists who secretly videotaped events during the Buddhist monks’ September 2007 uprising against the military regime, and who risk...

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  7. Moving to Mars (2010)

    aka: Refugee-Moving to Mars

    Director
    Matt Whitecross
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), variable

    Forced from their homeland, Burma, by the repressive military junta, these two families have lived in a Thai refugee camp for many years. A resettlement scheme offers them the chance of a new life, but their...

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  8. Reith Lectures 2011: Securing Freedom (2 Parts) (2011)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government

    Lecture 1 : LIBERTY - in the first of two Reith 2011 Lectures, Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi explores what freedom means. Reflecting on her own experience under house arrest in Burma, she...

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  9. Disarm

    Director
    Mary Wareham; Brian Liu
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £14.99

    DISARM spans a dozen countries to look at how, despite a global ban, millions of anti-personnel mines continue to claim victims daily in over 80 countries. Co-directed by Mary Wareham, a leader of the...

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  10. Britain at War (2009)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 840 minutes), £26.99

    This collection of ten documentaries features testimonies of remaining veterans from the army, navy and airforce and civilian organisations who lived through WW2. The programmes contain rare archive film and...

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