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Growing Cities (2013)

aka: Growing Cities: A Film About Urban Farming in America

Subject

Agriculture; American Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 93 minutes), $18.71

From rooftop farmers to backyard beekeepers, Americans are growing food like never before. Growing Cities goes coast to coast to tell the stories of these intrepid urban farmers, activists, and everyday...

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Directors in British and Irish Cinema

Date

25 Jun 2014, 08:28

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Directors in British and Irish Cinema edited by Robert Murphy (bfi, 2006), 672 pages, ISBN: 1844571262 (Paperback), £29.99, ISBN: 1844571254 (Hardback), £95.00 About the reviewer: A distinguished...

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Contempt of Conscience (2008)

Director

Joe Jenkins

Subject

Philosophy; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £25.00

At the beginning of the 20th century 80% of war casualties were combatants. At the beginning of the 21st century 80% of war casualties were civilians. Today, civilians pay for war like never before. As the...

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Restrepo (2010)

Director

Sebastian Junger; Tim Hetherington

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 93 minutes), £6.99

Restrepo focuses on the deployment of a US platoon in Afghanistan’s hostile Korengal Valley . Over the course of 15 months, the two filmmakers Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger (author of ‘The...

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Harper Audio: Emily Dickinson

Subject

Literature

A selection of the HarperCollins audio collections can now be heard on the Internet Town Hall. Julie Harris reads from the poems and letters of Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) lived a reclusive...

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Nureyev (2019)

Director

Jacqui Morris

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 109 minutes), £10.00

Documentary about life of Rudolf Nureyev. From his birth in the 5th class carriage of a trans-Siberian train, to his dramatic leap to freedom in the West at the height of the Cold War, and unprecedented...

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Still the Enemy Within (2014)

Director

Owen Gower

Producer

Owen Gower

Subject

Politics & government; Social sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 mins), £12.49

The film tells the story of the 1984-85 British miners’ strike. Thirty years on, this is the first-hand experience of those who lived through Britain’s longest strike. In 1984, a conservative government...

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Revolutions (4 Parts) (2011)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 52 minutes each part), £122.00 (each)£432.00 (set)

A series of four videos dealing with revolutions that have taken place in four countries: Argentina - Argentinians revolting against their bankrupt state; Haiti - Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Haiti’s...

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China: A Century of Revolution (3 Parts) (1989)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 3 x 120 minutes), $199.00 (all 3 partw)

Ten years in the making, this six-hour, three-part documentary series on the history of 20th century China uses archive footage and first-hand interviews to document the epic struggle of the Chinese people...

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Landscape Mysteries (2006)

Subject

Archaeology; Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 233 minutes), £54.99

The Landscape Mysteries DVD Pack includes the 8 full programmes from the series looking at how clues are hidden in the landscape. They include, In Search of Irish Gold, Figures in the Chalk, Britain before...

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