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  1. Syria: Chess Match at the Borders (2008)

    Director
    Amal Hamelin des Essarts
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), $348

    Syria is a single-party dictatorship country, ruled since 1970 by Hafez al-Assad and, following his death in 2000, by his son Bashar. Despite the lack of any significant oil reserves, this nation is both a...

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  2. Little Waterfall (2003)

    Director
    Joshka Wessels
    Subject
    Anthropology; Arabic studies; Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 52 minutes), £50.00

    Shallalah Saghirah ('Little Waterfall’) is a small village of about twenty households located in the Khanasser valley, in north Syria. The village has no electricity and still uses an ancient system, known...

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  3. Jim: The James Foley Story (2016)

    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 113 minutes), £9.99

    Documentary about the life and death of journalist James Foley who was kidnapped by ISIA in Syria in 2012 while reporting on the plight of civilians caught up in the war.

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  4. Covering Syria and the Refugee Crisis (2016)

    Subject
    Media studies

    Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor, Channel 4, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series on her own experiences of covering the Syrian refugee crisis for Channel 4 News....

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  5. Syria: The Assad’s Twilight (2011)

    Director
    Vicent de Cointet; Christophe Ayad
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), $348

    A portrait of the Assad regime, from its origins to 2011. During the 1970s, Bashar’s father, Hafez al-Assad, turned Syria into one of the world’s most secretive and repressive dictatorships. In 1982, he...

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  6. Hamoukar: Redrawing the Map of the World’s Earliest Cities (2007)

    Subject
    Archaeology

    Clemens Reichel, Research Associate at the Oriental Institute, explains the importance of the groundbreaking archaeological expedition he co-directed at Hamoukar in Northern Syria. Until recently,...

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  7. Dangerous Dynasty, A: House of Assad (2018)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government

    This three-part BBC series is a thorough lesson in how Syria has ended up in its current predicament. Right at the centre of it are President Bashar and his wife Asma, who met and fell in love in London....

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  8. Syria’s Torture Machine (2011)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government

    An investigation into the detention and torture of Syrian civilians, featuring shocking video evidence of men, women and children being subjected to beatings, whippings and more elaborate torture. In this...

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  9. Syria: Refugee Lives (2 Parts) (2008)

    Subject
    Education; Social Studies

    Two 15-minute programmes - IRAQI TEENAGERS SPEAK and IRAQI CHILDREN SPEAK. In the first programme Iraqi teenagers, who are living in Syria as refugees, talk about their current lives and their hopes for the...

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  10. Europe’s Border Crisis: The Long Road (2016)

    Producer
    Andy Bell; Patrick Barne
    Subject
    Politics & government; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195

    As Europe witnesses the movement of people across its borders, Panorama reporter John Sweeney joins thousands making the journey from the Greek island of Kos to the Austrian border with Hungary. He meets...

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