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Darwin and the Insects of Brazil (1958 Film)

Producer

H B D Kettlewell

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Study of insect adaptation, with reference to the voyage of the ‘Beagle’ in 1831, which took Darwin to Brazil. Produced for the Darwin-Wallace centenary of 1958.

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Ventre Libre (1995 Video)

aka: Liberation 2

Director

Ana Luiza Azevedo

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Looks at women’s human rights in Brazil by mixing interviews with women with statistics on Brazilian health care. Focuses on sterilisation, abortion, and teenage pregnancy in terms of the injustices...

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Turbulent Landscapes: Chico Buarque’s Brazil (1992 Video)

Director

Alex Anderson

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Chico Buarque is a Brazilian singer/songwriter, who has also written for the theatre and cinema and is the author of a best-selling novel. Here he talks and sings about carnival in Rio, football, and his novel.

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March for the Land (1997 Video)

Director

Nina Simöes

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 15 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Follows the momentous trek across Brazil by 10,000 landless campaigners demanding land reform from the government.

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Same Rights for Severina (1994 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1996 hire: £2.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) 1996 sale: £7.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Looks at human rights - the rights of all people to a home, health and education. Focuses on the story of a woman and her family in Brazil.

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Race and History in Brazil: Denying Brazil and Aleijadinho - Passion, Glory and Torment (2011)

aka: A Negacao Do Brasil

Director

Joel, Zito Araujo; Pereuram Geraldo Santos

Subject

Art; Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 92, 100 minutes), $29.95

Race and its impact on the art and history of Brazil are highlighted in this two-DVD set. The documentary DENYING BRAZIL analyses the issue of race in contemporary Brazilian soap operas, calling attention to...

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Migrant Way, The (1970 Film)

Director

P Neal

Producer

B Hauser

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The problems of the nomadic peasants of north-eastern Brazil, showing a resettlement scheme and a land reclamation scheme.

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Life and Debt (1992 Video)

Director

Octavio Bezerra

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 47 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Examines the links betwen Brazil’s debt, the devastation of its rain forest and the kiling of street children in Rio de Janeiro.

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Out of Development? (1993 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Brazil is rapidly becoming an industrial powr. Although its gross domestic product makes it the eighth most powerful economy in the world, two thirds of its people live below the poverty line, receiving only...

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Web of Life (1998 Video)

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the social and medicinal significance of plants in north-east Brazil through the framework of organisations operating within the Plantas do Nordeste or PNE, a scientific initiative in collaboration...

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