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  1. Afghanistan: The Great Game (2013)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £12.99

    Rory Stewart tells the story of foreign intervention in Afghanistan from the 19th century to the present day. In part 1, Stewart looks at how control of Afghanistan was seen by Victorian Britain as key to...

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  2. Kirghiz of Afghanistan, The (1975 Film, Video)

    Director
    Charlie Nairn
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Follows a a group of pastoralists living on a bleak mountain plateau in a remote corner of Afghanistan close to the Russian and Chinese borders. The focus of the film is on the remarkable authority and...

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  3. Naim and Jabar (1974 Film)

    Director
    Herbert Di Gioia; David Hancock
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Examines the hopes and aspirations of two adolescent boys in a village in Afghanistan. Shows them at work and at play.

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  4. Taxi to the Darkside (2008)

    Director
    Alex Gibney
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 106 minutes), £19.99

    This in-depth look at the mistreatment prisoners of the US in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, focuses on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan, who was tortured and killed in 2002. The film uses...

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  5. Wheat Cycle (1975 Film)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In Afghanistan the people and their labour are bound to the land in the cycle of activities from the sowing to the harvesting of wheat. Without narration or sub-titles, the film conveys a sense of unity...

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  6. Afghan Village, An (1974 Film)

    Director
    Herbert DeGioia; David Hancock
    Producer
    Denis Borrow
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Daily life in the village of Aq Kupruk in Afghanistan. Note: Printed materials intended to complement the observational approach used in the filming of this series are in preparation.

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  7. Women in a Changing World (1974 Film)

    Director
    Duncan Hazelden
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Examines the changing role of women in a number of different societies. Looks at the role of the Aymará women living in the Bolivian highlands, the Boran women living in northern Kenya, and the women living...

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  8. Boy Mir, The: Ten Years in Afghanistan (2012)

    Director
    Phil Grabsky
    Producer
    Amanda Wilkie; Phil Grabsky
    Subject
    Anthropology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

    Phil Grabsky’s documentary was filmed over the course of ten years and follows the life of an Afghani boy, Mir, growing up in the years after the fall of the Taliban in 2002. The film traces his journey...

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  9. Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, The (2006)

    Director
    Phil Grabsky
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 120 minutes), £19.99

    A portrait of everyday life in post-invasion Afghanistan, centered around an eight-year-old boy and his family who live in extreme poverty in caves among the ruins of the ‘Buddhas of Bamiyan’, one of the...

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  10. Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror

    Director
    John Pilger; Steve Connelly
    Producer
    Christopher Martin; Richard Clemmow
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), $295.00 [Institutional licence]

    Award-winning journalist John Pilger investigates the discrepancies between American and British claims for the ‘war on terror’ and the facts on the ground as he finds them in Afghanistan and Washington,...

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