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Rub’El Kurus (1997 Video)

aka: Beneath the Cross

Director

Carlos Flores

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

During the 1980s the Guatemalan army launched ruthless counter-insurgency campaings against indigenous communities, killing or displacing thousands. This film documents the struggle of a group of...

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Haider (2014 Film)

aka: Hamlet

Director

Vishal Bhardwaj

Bollywood version of Hamlet. Ophelia is a young journalist, Polonious a policeman, Laertes works for a multinational and Hamlet is a philosophy student from Kasmir, the former Himalayan province. The film...

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Media Screen Roundup - August 2015

Date

15 Sep 2015, 11:41

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, and published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. This month’s Roundup opens with an...

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Only the Dead (2015)

Director

Michael Ware

Subject

History; Politics & government

Documentary by Australian journalist Michael Ware which tells the story of the insurgency led by militant Islamist Abu Musab al Zarqawi during the Iraq War through footage filmed by Ware during the war.

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New Patriots, The (2004)

Subject

Military Science; Politics & government

Distribution

Hire, VHS (NTSC, 27 minutes), £7.00 + £20.00 deposit

U.S. Military veterans speak out about terrorism, patriotism and their opposition to the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) - now the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC) - where...

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Living with Boko Haram (2016)

Director

Trond Waage; Mouzamou Ahamadou

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

DVD (37 minutes), £50.00

Militant Islamic group Boko Haram’s violent insurgency is approaching Mogde, on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon, where Antoniette lives. In Kolbotn, near Oslo (Norway), lives her eldest son Vakote,...

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Syria’s Torture Machine (2011)

Subject

History; Politics & government

An investigation into the detention and torture of Syrian civilians, featuring shocking video evidence of men, women and children being subjected to beatings, whippings and more elaborate torture. In this...

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British Empire in Colour, The (2002)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.99

The rise and fall of the British Empire shown through recently discovered colour footage. Originally broadcast as a 3-part television series.

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No End in Sight (2008)

Director

Charles Ferguson

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes), £14.99

The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling...

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Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, The (2017)

Director

Ken Burns; Lynn Novick

Subject

American Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1080 minutes), £69.95

This 18-hour documentary offers an in-depth analysis of one of the most divisive and controversial events in American history: the Vietnam War. Episodes include: 1-Déjà vu (1858-1961): After a century of...

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