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  1. Partition (2007)

    Director
    Ken McMullen
    Subject
    Film Studies; History; Literature; Politics & government; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 78 minutes), £12.99

    An intense drama based around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the transfer of power from British to Indian hands. Based on Saadat Hussan Manto’s famous short story about partition,...

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  2. Cloud-Capped Star, The (2002)

    aka: Meghe Dhaka Tara

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 132), £19.99

    A dark melodrama set in late fifties Calcutta ;about a refugee family and the struggle of Nita, the oldest daughter, to keep the afloat and together. It is a bitter critique of the family as an institution...

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  3. Scramble for Africa, The (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Ian Thompson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Covers: Why partition of Africa occured when it did and so rapidly; ‘informal’ versus ‘formal’ trade, influence and rule; imperialism; Africa’s colonial legacy. Presented by Dr I R Smith.

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  4. Fall of Berlin, The (1995 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 75 min., 1995 sale: £14.99

    A documentary film on the fall of Berlin in 1945, using Russian archive footage. Covers Churchill visiting the Western Front, the American bridgehead on the Elbe at Magdeburg, the Luftwaffe attacking allied...

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  5. Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine - Israel (2004)

    Director
    Eyal Sivan; Michel Khleifi
    Subject
    Arabic studies; History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 270 minutes), £21.28

    In the summer of 2002, Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan, a Palestinian and an Israeli, travelled together from the south to the north of their country of birth, traced their trajectory on a map and called it...

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  6. Troubles, The (5 Parts) (1981 Video)

    Producer
    Richard Broad; Ian Stuttard
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Hire (BFI) Sale (Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 54, 72, 80, 68, 60 min.

    1: An account of the British conquest of Ireland and the sense of grievance and resentment it created. 2: Examines how Ireland came to be partitioned in 1921. 3: Traces the history of the Northern Ireland...

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