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Seeds of Hope: The Village (1985 Video)

Director

Malcolm Hirst; Charles Stewart

Producer

Charles Stewart

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min.

Filmed in Ethiopia over a three-year period from 1983 to 1986, the programme chronicles how environmental destruction and mismanaged aid pushed a village and its people to the edge of extinction. Focuses on...

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Disaster on a Summer’s Day

Date released

18 Mar 1965

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1867A

NoS ID

025915

Story no

2 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Disaster on a Summer’s Day. DESCRIPTION: Farmers in Queensland and New South Wales have poured their capital into drilling wells and building dams. The recorded rainfall in New South...

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Truth About Climate Change, The (2008)

aka: Are Changing Planet Earth?/ Can we Save Planet Earth?

Subject

Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £15.99

A two-part television documentary presented by Sir David Attenborough who explores just how far climate change is altering our planet, from drought-stricken rainforest to declining polar bears, from flooded...

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Stem Nematode, The: A Pest in Agriculture (1979 Film, Video)

Director

Chris C Doncaster

Subject

Agriculture; Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The stem nematode ‘Ditylenchus dipsaci’ causes serious yield losses in temperate regions. Being resistant to drought it is often distributed on seed. Control with chemicals is expensive, but the use of...

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Environment 1 (1999 Video)

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale - see BEYOND RED, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., See: BEYOND RED

Three 8-minute films: 1) THE CIVIL ENGINEER: The story of one man’s efforts to restore a water supply to the farmers of Armenia’s Karat province. The death of communism led to a breakdown in the water...

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Please Send Rain

Date released

4 Apr 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1765A

NoS ID

025047

Story no

4 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Please Send Rain. DESCRIPTION: Since last September hardly a drop of rain has fallen on Hong Kong. The drought has become so serious that for the first time Hong Kong Buddhists have...

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Hamar Trilogy, The (3 Parts) (1990 Video)

Producer

Joanna Head; Jean Lydall

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £585.00

The Hamar people are an isolated people living in the dry scrubland of south-western Ethiopia. These programmes concentrate on the proud and outspoken Hamar women. 1 (1990): A young widow, an unmarried girl...

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Wild, wild nature

Date released

15 Dec 1932

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

602

NoS ID

333109

Story no

2 / 4

NoS Summary - fox cubs playing and nightingales feeding their offspring. British Pathe synopsis: "Fox cubs, pretty as a picture - but the farmers don’t like them near their poultry runs - (This picture...

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Tuareg, The (1972 Film, Video)

Director

Charlie Nairn

Producer

Charlie Nairn

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Follows a group of Tuareg living high up in the Hoggar Mountains, at the foot of Tahat, the highest mountain in Algeria. Details, after some introductory descriptive material about Tuareg social life, the...

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West, The (4 Parts) (1996 Video)

Director

Ken Burns; Steve Ives

Producer

Ken Burns; Steve Ives

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, 4 videocassettes. VHS. b&w/col. 180, 180, 192, 210 min., 2000 sale: £16.99 (inclusive) each

Eight-part television series using photographs, newsreels, journals, music, diaries and artifacts to relate the history of the American West from 1500 to 1914. On four videocassettes: 1) The People...

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