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  1. Reith Lectures 2002, A Question of Trust - Onora O’Neill (5 Lectures) (2005)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Politics & government; Psychology; Social Studies

    We say we no longer trust our public services, institutions or the people who run them. Politicians, accountants, doctors, scientists, businessmen, auditors and many others are treated with suspicion. Their...

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  2. Pakistan - Jihad Junior High (2005)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Religious studies

    Critics in the West argue that Pakistan’s madrassas glorify terrorism and should be shut down. But any proposed reforms are bound to be controversial in Pakistan. At a madrassa in Pakistan, students are...

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  3. Saddam’s Road to Hell (2006)

    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    DVD

    Filmmaker Gwynne Roberts and a team of investigators led by Dr Mohammed Ihsan, Kurdistan’s Human Rights Minister, set off in an armoured convey across postwar Iraq to find out what happened to 8,000...

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  4. Does Aid Work? (2010)

    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government

    A short animation (2.5 minutes) made by the Health and Education for All Campaign putting forward the case that aid makes a difference to the lives of the poorest people around the world and answering the...

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  5. Oath, The (2010)

    Director
    Laura Poitras
    Subject
    Arabic studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 96 minutes), £9.99

    Two men who were part of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network look back on their past in this documentary from director Laura Poitras. Before the September 11, 2001 attacks, Abu Jandal was one of bin Laden’s...

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  6. Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Marketing and the Creation of a Health Crisis (2013)

    Director
    Kate Geis
    Producer
    Rebecca Rideout; Kate Geis
    Subject
    Health Education; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $275.00

    Over the past three decades, obesity rates in the USA have more than doubled for children and tripled for adolescents and a startling 70% of adults are now obese or overweight. The result has been a widening...

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  7. Making News (1982)

    Director
    Terry Flaxton
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 37 minutes), £120.00 (Lux)

    Concerns media coverage of the 1982 health workers’ dispute. Reveals how a stereotyped image of health workers was conveyed by television and the newspapers. The story is told by three groups of health...

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  8. Election Uncovered: What They Won’t Tell Us (2010)

    Subject
    Politics & government

    This programme, broadcast just prior to the 2010 general election, asks whether the political parties’ pre-election promises add up? Are they even possible? Can the health service budget truly be...

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  9. Disappearing of Tuvalu, The: Trouble in Paradise (2006)

    Director
    Christopher Horner
    Subject
    Anthropology; Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 75 or 50 minutes), $195.00 (long version) $175.00 (short version)

    A detailed overview of contemporary life in the tiny South Pacific country of Tuvalu, this film documents the earth’s first sovereign nation faced with total destruction due to the effects of global...

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  10. 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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