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  1. Anti-Personnel Mine Injuries: Surgical Management (1993 Video)

    Director
    Roger Bunting; Robin Coupland
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 45 min., 2000 sale: Sfr150.00 (+p&p)

    Looks at surgery for anti-personnel landmine victims as practised in the International Committee of the Red Cross hospital in Peshwar, Pakistan, which treated people wounded by the fighting in Afghanistan.

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  2. Girl Rising (2014)

    Director
    Richard Robbins
    Subject
    Development studies; Education; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 103 minutes), £13.99

    This film follows nine girls from Haiti, Nepal, Ethiopia, India, Egypt, Peru, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan on their journey to education. the girls face arranged marriages, child slavery and other...

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  3. New Cold War, The (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

    Noam Chomsky and Fred Halliday discuss the arms race, increasing rivalry between the superpowers, and military intervention in Grenada and Afghanistan which have led many to speak of a new Cold War.

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  4. Amir (1986 Video)

    Director
    John Baily
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Amir, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan, tells his story through music. His work with other musicians and his precarious existence as a refugee are at the centre of the film.

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  5. Reconstruction and Reconciliation (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

    Examines post-war disaster management in Angola, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Rwanda and Somalia. Shows how cities have been reduced to rubble can be rebuilt through partnership. These case studies illustrate how...

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  6. Sons of Haji Omar (1978 Film)

    Director
    Timothy Asch; Asen Balikci; Eugene Boyko; David Newman; Richard Sorensen
    Producer
    Don Hopkins; Douglas MacDonald; Michael McKennirey
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakankhel, a Pashtun tribal group in north-eastern Afghanistan. The film focuses on this family: Haji Omar, the patriarch, a wealthy settled nomad, determined on...

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  7. Herat Films (1983 Video)

    Director
    John Baily
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 107 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 1999 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Three programmes edited from seven hours of Super-8 film shot by John Baily during two years of ethnomusicological fieldwork carried out in the Herat region of western Afghanistan between 1973 and 1977. All...

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  8. War You Don’t See, The (2010)

    Subject
    History; Media studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £6.00

    John Pilger’s film is a powerful investigation into the media’s role in war. It traces the history of ‘embedded’ and independent reporting from the carnage of World War I to the destruction of...

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  9. Pathans, The (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    André Singer
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Bound by a common language and heritage and a fundamental belief in Islam, the Pathans have never acknowledged the political boundaries imposed by the states in which they live. Today the Pathans are...

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  10. Opium (2011)

    Subject
    Medical sciences; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £10.00

    Opium is a drug with two faces. It causes violent disputes, wars and crime, but can make life worth living for those with terrible illnesses. Before opium was synthesized into heroin, medical use of the drug...

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