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  1. New Start in Sussex

    Date released
    11 Mar 1963
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1762
    NoS ID
    025015
    Story no
    1 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Start in Sussex. DESCRIPTION: The Pestalozzi Children’s Village in Sussex is now a home for more than 20 Tibetan refugee children. Besides learning to read and write in Tibetan,...

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  2. Tibet: The Bamboo Curtain Falls (2012)

    Producer
    Simon Normanton
    Subject
    Geography; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 50 minutes), $7.49

    A 1981 episode of The World About Us that documents the history of political struggle between Tibet and China through archival film shot by western travellers in the early part of the century. Shows daily...

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  3. Tibet (1976 Film)

    Director
    Felix Greene
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes the social changes that have taken place since 1950 when the Chinese Communist army entered Tibet to re-establish what the Chinese considered their rightful territory. Interviews with a range of...

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  4. Tibet - Cry of the Snow Lion (2007)

    Director
    Tom Peosay
    Subject
    Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £19.99

    A dramatic documentary that looks at the astonishing recent political history of Tibet. Spending over ten years making the film, director Tom Peosay presents a concise, educational chronology that tracks the...

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  5. Saltmen of Tibet, The (1998)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 109 minutes), $29.99

    Shot under extreme conditions, this film documents the ancient traditions and day-to-day rituals of a Tibetan nomadic community. Filmmaker Ulrike Koch reveals a realm untainted by the tides of foreign...

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  6. Epic of Everest, The (2014)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 88 minutes), £19.99

    The 1924 Everest expedition culminated in the deaths of two of the finest climbers of their generation, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, and sparked an ongoing debate over whether or not they did indeed...

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