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Akenfield (1974)

Director

Peter Hall

Subject

Agriculture; English language and literature; History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £14.99

Loosely based on Ronald Blythe’s book, this film traces three generations of one Suffolk family and their lives in the farming industry. The film features a cast of non-professional actors drawn from the...

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To Taste a Hundred Herbs: Gods, Ancestors and Medicine in a Chinese Village (1986 Video)

Director

Richard Gordon; Carma Hinton

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 58 min.

The setting is Long Bow, a village 400 miles southwest of Beijing. Focuses on one family - the village doctor’s - and integrates the lives of individuals with larger issues. Dr Shen, a Roman Catholic,...

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Truth Behind ‘I Walked by Night’, The (2010)

Director

Peter Hodges

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £15.95

In her book The King of the Norfolk Poachers Charlotte Paton described the results of her search for Frederick Rolfe’s real life, comparing it with the account published in Lilias Rider Haggard’s book I...

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Villagers of the Sierra de Gredos (1989 Video)

Director

Peter Carr

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI, Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

The 130 villagers of Navalguijo in the Sierra de Gredos of central Spain live in a village high in the mountains and face an extreme climate with poor soil. With access to winter pastures across the...

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My Family and Me (1986 Video)

aka: H Oikogenia Mou Kai Ego

Director

Colette Piault

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £24.00

Examines family relationships in the context of migration. Thanassakis, a 13-year-old boy, is staying with his grandparents in their Greek village in Epirus, while his parents are staying with his younger...

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Return to the Brouck, The Fenland, Forty Years on (2010)

Director

Colette Piault

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £20.00

In 1970, documentary filmmaker Colette Piault and her colleagues produced a film on the lives of a group of young people living in the Brouck (the Audomarois Fenland) area of Northern France. Forty years...

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Pattern of Britain, The (2006)

Director

Ralph Keene; Ken Annakin; Charles de Latour; Humphrey Swingler

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £16.33

Four films about the farmlands of rural England made between 1944-1947, looking at the countryside after the war and how it was changing fast as old ways were dying out, In each of the films, past, present...

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Quechua, The (1974 Film, Video)

Director

Carlos Pasini

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Set in the southern Peruvian Andes, the film deals with a community of peasant agriculturalists who farm land between 12,000 and 14,000 feet above sea level, and concentrates mainly on a single family. The...

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Brouck, Le (1972 Video)

Director

Colette Piault

Subject

Anthropology; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 38 minutes), £20.00

Looks at a precise moment of consciousness of socio-economic agricultural problems faced by eight young fenlanders from Saint-Omer, Pas de Calais, a moment when French farmers were tempted to replace...

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Behind the Moon and the Sledgehammer (2010)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 77 minutes), £16.99

Behind-the-scenes look at Philip Trevelyan’s film about the eccentric Page family who live together in a ramshackle house in the Sussex countryside, without gas, electricity or running water. The director...

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