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Have You Seen Drum Recently? (199 Video)

Director

Jurgen Schadeberg

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 77 min., 1998 hire: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A dynamic history of the South African ‘Drum’ magazine in the 1950s, reliving the changing South African political and cultural climate of the time using archive footage, extensive photographs taken from...

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Passage to Britain, The (12 Parts) (1983 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 180 min.

Twelve programmes exploring the history of immigration into Britain. The six programmes on tape 1 focus on the legacy of the Empire, the Jews, the Irish, World War II, the Poles and the Hungarians. Tape 2...

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India - The Struggle for Independence/ The Spanish Conquest of Mexico

Subject

FE; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £10.99

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Mirrors of Paradise (1991 Video)

Director

Jurgen Schadeberg

Subject

Arts and Humanities; History; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £50.00

Celebrates the cultural and religious co-existence between Muslim, Christian and Jew which throve in Spain prior to 1492 and so influenced the European Renaissance. Features poetry, architecture, paintings,...

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Unity Through Culture (2011)

Director

Christian Suhr; Ton Otto

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

Soanin Killangit is determined to unite the people and attract international tourism through the revival of culture on Baluan Island, Manus, Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific. He organises the largest...

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Sunrise over Tiananmen Square (1998)

Director

Shui-Bo Wang

Subject

Art; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 29 minutes), Canadian $19.95

Both an autobiographical work and an attempt to portray the new China, this collage film uses original art and family and archival photos to present a personal perspective on the Cultural Revolution and its...

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Paris (2007)

Subject

Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.99

Parisian historian, Sandrine Viollet reveals the art, literature and music of Paris in this revealing mixture of cultural history, travel guide and insight into contemporary Paris life.

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Children of the Revolution (1995 Video)

Director

David Hinton

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. 50 min., 1998 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

Profiles the Conservatoire Red Guards, a group of classical music students of the Beijing Central Conservatory who grew up during the cultural Revolution, who relate how they survived the hardships of the...

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Woven Lives: Contemporary Textiles from Ancient Oaxacan Traditions (2012)

aka: Vidas Enretejidas

Director

Carolyn Kallenborne

Subject

Anthropology; Crafts

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 76 minutes), £162.00

Examines how traditional art and design play an active role in the cultural sustainability of the Zapotec communities in Oaxaca. Traces the development of the weaving process from the first people in the...

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African Americans, The: Many Rivers to Cross (2013)

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 360 minutes), $29.99

This film, presented by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and...

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