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King of Afghanistan: Lulworth, Bulford + Croydon

Date released

22 Mar 1928

Series name

Empire News Bulletin

Issue no

198

NoS ID

048871

Story no

7 / 7

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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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Shakespeare in Afghanistan (2007 Television)

Series

Our World

Producer

Sylvene Gilchrist

Daily current affairs show. This episode focuses on the closed world of women in Afghanistan with the story of a Canadian director, Corinne Jaber, and her staging of Love’s Labour’s Lost in Kabul....

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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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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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Amanullah

Date released

18 Jan 1929

Series name

Empire News Bulletin

Issue no

284

NoS ID

049569

Story no

5 / 8

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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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Amanullah at Sandhurst

Date released

29 Mar 1928

Series name

Empire News Bulletin

Issue no

200

NoS ID

048885

Story no

5 / 9

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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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In the World’s Spotlight

Date released

17 Jan 1929

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

908-1

NoS ID

132453

Story no

2 / 7

King Amanullah and Queen Suraya of Afghanistan. He abdicates in favour of his elder brother. Library footage.

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