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  1. Gelada (1965 Film)

    Director
    J H Crook
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The results of an expedition to Ethiopia to study the diversity of cool-climate birds and mammals unique to the High Semyen of northern Ethiopia near the city of Gondar. Introduces the various age and sex...

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  2. Land is Bad, The: The Mursi (1991 Video)

    Director
    Leslie Woodhead
    Producer
    Leslie Woodhead
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    This is Leslie Woodhead’s fourth DISAPPEARING WORLD film made with the Mursi of south-west Ethiopia since 1985. He has filmed the continuing story of a people as they fight to maintain their identity...

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  3. Battle of Adwa, The (1896) As Depicted in Traditional Ethiopian Art: Changing Historical Perspective (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Pat Wisher
    Subject
    Art; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

    The victory of Emperor Menilek of Ethiopia over the Italians in the Battle of Adwa in 1896 was a major event in the history of Africa. As a result Ethiopia survived the nineteenth century European scramble...

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  4. Outcasts, The (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Fiona Holmes
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1998 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the workd of the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia, founded by two Australian gynaecologists to help yong women who are rejected by their families and friends after sustaining injuries during...

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  5. Nuer, The (1970 Film)

    Director
    George Briedenbach; Robert Gardner; Hilary Harris
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The Nuer, well known from the work of Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard, live as transhumant herdsmen and millet farmers in the swamps and open plains close to the Nile and two of its major tributaries in the Sudan...

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  6. Rivers of Sand (1974 Film)

    Director
    Robert Gardner
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    About the Hamar, a relatively isolated people in South-western Ethiopia who practice mixed farming, keeping cattle and growing sorghum, in a dry area close to the Kenya border. Concerns the role of women,...

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  7. Cammino Degli Eroi, Il (1936 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A documentary account of the Italian conquest of Ethiopia which concentrates on the planning and the organisation that lay behind the ‘new African Empire’. In 13 sections, each of which is preceded by an...

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  8. Seeds of Hope: The Village (1985 Video)

    Director
    Malcolm Hirst; Charles Stewart
    Producer
    Charles Stewart
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min.

    Filmed in Ethiopia over a three-year period from 1983 to 1986, the programme chronicles how environmental destruction and mismanaged aid pushed a village and its people to the edge of extinction. Focuses on...

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  9. Farmers of Gaho (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 21 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    All too often dry lands are dismissed as unproductive regions, with agriculture collapsing in the face of desertifiction. But this need not be so. In southern Ethiopia the farmers of the village of Gaho,...

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  10. Duka’s Dilemma (2004)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 87 minutes), £50.00

    Jean Lydall has been making films with the Hamar community of southern Ethiopia since the 1970s. In 2001 she returned with her daughter to follow the continuing life story of Duka. Candid interviews reveal...

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