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  1. Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 1973: The Language of Animals (1973)

    Subject
    Biology

    David Attenborough’s lectures explore the complex world of animal communication. The series was filmed live at the Royal Institution between Friday 23 December 1973 and Friday 4 January 1974. Attenborough...

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  2. History of the English Language (1943)

    Director
    Mary Field
    Subject
    English language and literature; Linguistics

    History of the English Language acts as an excellent layman’s introduction to the origins of one of the most common languages on the planet, demonstrating how dialect changes over time, and presenting...

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  3. Germany’s Sense of Itself and the World’s Sense of Germany (2015)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government

    A video podcast from the London Review of Books. Franziska Augstein, Süddeutsche Zeitung; Norbert Röttgen, Chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Foreign Affairs; Neal Ascherson, the Observer’s Central...

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  4. War on Democracy, The (2008)

    Director
    John Pilger; Chris Martin
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £19.99

    Focusing on the political state of Latin America, the film is a rebuke of both the United States’ intervention in foreign countries’ domestic politics, and its war on terrorism. John Pilger’s 2007...

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  5. Tradition Vs Tourism in Ladakh (2007)

    Subject
    Geography; Travel & tourism

    A video excerpt from a film by Dan Schreiber exploring the tension between tradition and tourism in a Ladakh, a remote region of Northern India. Originally featured as part of the US television programme...

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  6. Imperial Grand Strategy (2004)

    Subject
    Politics & government

    Film of lecture given by Noam Chomsky at the University of Manchesteron May 22 2004. Chomsky considers the war in Iraq, disputing thee U.S. government’s justifications for the invasion. In the process, he...

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  7. Made in China (2007)

    Director
    Yves Scagiola; Roman Weber
    Subject
    Social Studies

    MADE IN CHINA is an expedition through the urban Chinese underground and the slowly budding youth culture in Beijing and Shanghai. Ten young intellectuals in film, art, literature and music describe and...

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  8. Syria: Refugee Lives (2 Parts) (2008)

    Subject
    Education; Social Studies

    Two 15-minute programmes - IRAQI TEENAGERS SPEAK and IRAQI CHILDREN SPEAK. In the first programme Iraqi teenagers, who are living in Syria as refugees, talk about their current lives and their hopes for the...

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  9. Criminal Justice - Pretrial Detention (2007)

    Subject
    Law

    The excessive use (and length) of pre-trial detention is one of the main causes of prison overpopulation. Owing to the risk of flight, non-resident suspects are often remanded in custody, while residents...

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  10. Shock Doctrine (2007)

    Director
    Alfonso Cuarón; Jonas Cuarón
    Subject
    Politics & government

    A hard-hitting short film centering on ‘disaster capitalism’ and based on Naomi Klein’s book of the same name. Klein reveals how capitalism has consistently been forced upon disaster-shocked people,...

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