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  1. Simon Schama’s American Future: A History (2008)

    Subject
    Economics; Geography; History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £25.99

    As the United States prepares for the 2008 election, historian Simon Schama presents a personal view of how America arrived at where it is today, and the challenges it faces for the future. With the US...

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  2. Tools of Exploitation (1986 Television)

    Series
    Africans: A Triple Heritage, The

    Series on Africa written and presented by Professor Ali A. Mazrui. Episode 4 traces the colonial economic legacy, the development of slavery, and European control of Africa’s natural resources, with...

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  3. Back in the Thirties (196 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A compilation film about the United States of America in the 1930s.

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  4. Capitalism Vs Socialism

    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 720 minutes), £54.99

    Professor Stuart takes students through the origins and evolutions of economic thought; he looks at some of the greatest experiments and failures of the last few centuries, including the creation of early...

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  5. Capitalism Hits the Fan (2009)

    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 57 minutes), $125.00

    University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of the current economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within...

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  6. Real West, The (1961 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Alternates between showing scenes of Gary Cooper in the setting of a deserted western town, and still photographs which are used to explore the social and economic developments of the expanding West from...

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  7. Why we Fight (2008)

    Director
    Eugene Jarecki
    Subject
    Economics; History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £5.99

    Eugene Jarecki’s award winning documentary examining how business has shaped American foreign policy since the end of World War II, a dangerous collusion described by President Eisenhower as the...

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  8. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)

    Director
    Philippe Mora
    Producer
    Sanford Lieberson; David Puttnam
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 106 minutes), $12.49

    Documentary about the depression of the 1930s in the United States. Includes extracts from many feature films of the period.

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  9. 'It’s a Young Country’: Turkey and Akbank (2009)

    Director
    Charles K. Mann; Franco Sacchi
    Subject
    Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 18 minutes), $165.00 [Institutional rate]

    Commissioned to make a film for a teaching case at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, filmmaker Charles Mann drew upon seven years as a working economist in Turkey to produce a film that captures the...

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  10. In Whose Interests? (2004)

    Subject
    Economics; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Hire, VHS (PAL, 27 minutes), £7.00 + £20.00 deposit

    America claims to support freedom and democracy abroad but does history really support this idea? An internal government memorandum of 1948 said "We have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6% of its...

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