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Poverty Complex, The (1992 Video)

Producer

Patti Langton

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Many countries are still prey to famine and poverty in the 1990s. The causes of famine are varied and controversial - disease, over-population, natural disasters and war are all seen as contributors. It is...

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When Ireland Starved: An Gorta Mór, The Great Famine (1992)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 98 minutes), 14.99 Euros

This four part series examines the causes and effects of poverty in Ireland, which led to the Great Famine of the 1840s, during which around a million people died. The episodes are as follows: 1. Causes of...

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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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Poverty and the Media (2012)

Director

Mark Saunders

Subject

Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 74 minutes), £75.00 (Institutional rate)

POVERTY AND THE MEDIA is a participatory project examining how the media treats poverty and those affected: Looking at representation, stigmatisation and stereotyping, it asks wheter the media bridges or...

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Don’t Panic: How to End Poverty in 15 Years (2015)

Subject

Development studies; Social sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £20

Television documentary. In the week the United Nations presented its new goals for global development, the programme looks at the number one goal for the world: eradicating extreme poverty - the condition...

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Hard Times (1970 Film)

Director

Richard Broad

Producer

Ian Martin

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Discusses poverty in Britain in the 1970s. Old age pensioners, unsupported mothers and disabled people describe their difficulties.

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Victorian Slam, The

Subject

History; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £8.99

An ambitious living history BBC series in which one corner of the East End of London is taken back to the late Victorian era, a time when East End poverty began to make the headlines. The Slum charts the...

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Other Kenya, The (1980 Video)

Producer

Martin Freeth

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

REFERENCE ONLY (Concord) Sale (BBC), Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the contrasts in Kenya between the tourist image and the impoverished lives of the country’s inhabitants. A wealthy minority own much of the countryside and grow cash crops to sell to the...

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Simplemente Jenny (1979 Film)

Director

Helena Solberg-Ladd

Subject

Development studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

About women in Latin America and the cultural values that shape their lives - image and reality - the models of society and the facts of poverty and violence. Focuses on three adolescent girls in a...

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Death of the Working Classes (1988 Video)

Producer

Hilary Henson

Subject

Medical sciences; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Investigates the theories behind statistics which reveal that death has a class bias, with the working classes at greater risk. The NHS has made no difference to the health gap between the social classes and...

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