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  1. Millions Face Famine

    Date released
    8 Oct 1931
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    64
    NoS ID
    031662
    Story no
    2 / 6

    China’s flood victims, 30,000,000 homeless souls. Crops gone, they cling to high ground awaiting help. 1. City of misery. Hankow, China’s chief industrial centre is paralysed as flood waters fail to recede.

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  2. National Geographic - Seconds from Disaster - Series 4 (2012)

    Subject
    Psychology; Technology
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 288 minutes), £17.99

    The Seconds from Disaster series Blends advanced CGI, re-enactments, archival footage, forensic science, dramatic eyewitness accounts and expert testimony to allow the viewer to experience first-hand the...

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  3. Floods Sweep China

    Date released
    21 Sep 1931
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    59
    NoS ID
    031630
    Story no
    2 / 6

    More than 350,000 die in worst disaster in Chinese history. Thirty million face starvation as floods continue. 1. In Hankow, industrial metropolis of Central China, starving refugees crowd flooded streets,...

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  4. Tar Sands Trilogy

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £14.99

    These films address the huge environmental impact of the Tar Sands developments in Alberta Canada. DIRTY OIL (2010): Deep behind-the-scenes into the strip-mined world of Alberta, Canada, where the vast and...

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  5. Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl (2006)

    Director
    Phil Grabsky; David Bickerstaff
    Subject
    Environmental science; Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 52 minutes), £20.00

    Based on Mario Petrucci’s award-winning book-length poem, the film tells the story of the people who dealt with the disaster at ground-level: the fire-fighters, the soldiers, the ‘liquidators’, and...

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  6. 11th Hour, The (2008)

    Director
    Leila Conners Petersen; Nadia Conners
    Producer
    Leonardo DiCaprio
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

    Leonardo DiCaprio presents this thought-provoking documentary about the fragile state of our planet’s ecosystems and the dangers we face. We’ve all seen the devastating effects of natural disasters like...

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  7. Alternative 3 (2007)

    Director
    Christopher Miles
    Subject
    Environmental science; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £15.99

    Originally scheduled for broadcast on April Fool’s Day 1977 but delayed until June due to industrial action, ALTERNATIVE 3 was a controversial hoax documentary in the vein of Orson Welles’s radio...

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  8. Advertising on TV (Vols 1-26) (2005)

    Subject
    Business studies; Media studies; Politics & government; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (NTSC, 55 mins each vol), $20.00 each vol

    A 26-part series covering in detail, with many examples, the theory and technology behind the development of television advertising in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s. Many of the films were...

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