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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. '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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  4. El Salvador: Another Vietnam (1981 Video)

    Director
    Glenn Silber; Tete Vasconcellos
    Producer
    Glenn Silber; Tete Vasconcellos
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 50 min.

    Investigates the origins of the civil war in El Salvador and the involvement, historical and contemporary, of the USA. For fifty years, El Salvador was ruled by an oligarchy supported and effectively...

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  5. 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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  6. Japan and China: The Unforgotten War (2006)

    Subject
    Economics; History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    DVD

    Just a few sentences in a Japanese history textbook in 2005 sparked the biggest protests China had seen since 1989. The subject of those sentences— the Nanjing Massacre —occurred during World War II, but...

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  7. Power of Community, The: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)

    Director
    Faith Morgan
    Subject
    Agriculture; Economics; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 53 minutes), $20.00

    When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba’s economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half - and food by 80 percent - people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships...

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  8. Great Depression Films on DVD (1933)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 126 minutes), $9.95

    A compilation of nine films from the Great Depression, illustrating the moods of hope, fear, turmoil and change. Titles include BOY IN COURT (1950, FINANCING THE AMERICAN FAMILY (1935), FROM DAWN TO SUNSET...

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  9. Men in Washington - 1942

    Date released
    1942
    Series name
    The March of Time 8th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    352226
    Story no
    1 / 1

    The March of Time synopsis: Washington stands unique among American cities, for its inhabitants are engaged in only one major business - the government of the United States. Today, with all the resources of...

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  10. How to Study Cultures (4 Parts) (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 18, 24, 20, 22 min., 2001 sale: £32.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

    Series attempting to define and explain culture by looking at its elements, using examples from around the world. 1: How culture develops as a result of the geographical elements of topography, climate and...

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