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  1. Corn Belt (1961)

    Subject
    Geography

    This educational film was produced by Indiana University in 1961 and shows the importance of corn as an economic commodity. [17 minutes]

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  2. Forgotten Village, The (1941)

    Director
    Alexander Hammid; Herbert Kline
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Geography; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 65 minutes), £10.99

    Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village in the early years of the 20th century. Alexander Hammid, famous for his...

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  3. Women’s Kingdom, The (2006)

    Director
    Xiaoli Zhou
    Subject
    Geography; Social Studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    A report from "The Women’s Kingdom" in southwest China, not far from the Tibetan Buddhist city the Chinese have renamed Shangri-La. Here the Mosuo women enjoy a degree of freedom unimagineable elsewhere...

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  4. Baked Alaska (2004)

    Director
    Fanny Armstrong
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0)

    Temperatures in Alaska, America’s coldest, richest State, are rising ten times faster than in the rest of the world. President Bush ignored the warning signs. He pulled out of Kyoto and wants to open a...

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  5. James Balog: Time-Lapse Proof of Extreme Ice Loss (2009)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography

    Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of...

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  6. 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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  7. West Mata Submarine Volcano Eruption (2009)

    Subject
    Geography; Geology

    High definition video footage of the underwater explosion of the West Mata volcano, nearly 4,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, in an area bounded by Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. Filmed in 2009 by...

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  8. Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development Conference 2011 (2011)

    Subject
    Development studies; Economics; Geography

    The Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development, a consortium of governments and research and advocacy organizations, focuses on achieving greater transparency in the global financial system...

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  9. Life and Debt (2004)

    Subject
    Development studies; Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 82 minutes), £7.99

    Looks at the less savoury effects of globalisation on the island of Jamaica. With independence came the need for money for development, but the strictures from the IMF and World Bank that came with the loans...

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  10. Meltdown: In the Shadow of Nepal’s Lost Glaciers (2007)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography

    In 1986 a small glacial lake in the Khumbu region of Nepal burst its banks washing away a hydro-electric power station, many bridges and many lives. This was just a taste of what is to come. There are much...

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