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San Soldiers (1998 Video)

Subject

Development studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The San people of southern Africa are struggling to avoid extinction amid warfare in South Africa, Namibia and Angola. This film examines the persecution of these landless people, whose traditional nomadic...

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Media Screen Roundup - May 2015

Date

18 Jun 2015, 09:50

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. Music videos feature in articles by...

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Africa, Our Own Story (1994 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1996 sale: £7.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

An African perspective on the reasons why people in Africa still face a food crisis nine years after the Ethiopian famine started to dominate headlines. Looks at long-term solutions for the continent’s...

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Dogma and Dreams (1990 Video)

aka: Dogma and Dreams in South Africa

Director

Alison Roper

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Considers isolation, censorship and social deprivation in South Africa. Participants include writers Andre Brink, Don Mattera, Njabulo Ndebele, Albie Sachs, Heim Willemse and Lauretta Ngcobo.

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End of the Dialogue (1970 Film)

Subject

Politics & government; Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Made by five black South African members of the Pan Africanist Congress, showing the situation of apartheid in South Africa as experienced by black Africans.

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Soweto: A History (1994 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col.

A three-part series in which the people of Soweto tell the story of Soweto, South Africa’s largest city, from the turn of the century to the present day.

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Between Confession and Prosecution: Truth and Reconciliation (1998 Video)

Subject

Development studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Part of a series exploring ways of resolving conflicts across Africa. Here, former policeman Wouter Mentz has applied to the South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission for amnesty relating to his role...

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Bible and the Gun, The (1983 Video)

Director

Mike Csaky; Andrew Harries; John Percival; Christopher Ralling

Subject

Anthropology; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min.

Deals with a series of inter-related themes: first, the negative effects on Africa of the slave trade; second the interior exploration of Africa by Europeans; third the missionary factor in African...

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Caravans of Gold (1983 Video)

Director

Mike Csaky; Andrew Harries; John Percival; Christopher Ralling

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min.

Illustrates and discusses some of Africa’s historic trading systems internal and external, with special reference to the traditional trans-Saharan caravan trade and to the maritime trading circulations of...

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Siphiwo Mtimkulu: The Final Chapter (1998 Video)

Director

Mark J Kaplan

Producer

Mark J Kaplan

Subject

Development studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale - see TRIUMPH OVER TERROR, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., See: TRIUMPH OVER TERROR

Follows the struggle to bring before South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission the case of Siphiwo Mtimkulu, a student leader shot and burned in 1982 by the Security Police.

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