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  1. Kanyini (2007)

    Director
    Melanie Hogan
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Geography; Social Studies

    Based on Bob Randall’s biography ‘Songman: Story of an Aboriginal Elder’. Bob is an indigenous man who lives beside Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock) in central Australia. Based on his own personal...

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  2. Social Media @ Work (2011)

    Subject
    Business studies; Information technology

    A short video (13 minutes) on the benefits that the use of social media can bring to internal communication within businesses. There is disconnect between how immersed and digitally connected employees are...

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  3. Becoming 13 (2006)

    Director
    Victoria King
    Subject
    Psychology; Social Studies

    Canadian documentary following three 12-year-old girls over a year as they approach adolescence. The film shows the importance of peer pressure, but also the influence of family. The filmmaker is discreet...

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  4. Marriage in the 1950s and 60s: from Wedding Vows to Happily Ever After? (2010)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies; Women’s studies

    After World War II, during which most women worked outside the home as part of the war effort, everything changed. As the men went back to their jobs, the women were expected to return to their role as...

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  5. Women’s Kingdom, The (2006)

    Director
    Xiaoli Zhou
    Subject
    Geography; Social Studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    A report from "The Women’s Kingdom" in southwest China, not far from the Tibetan Buddhist city the Chinese have renamed Shangri-La. Here the Mosuo women enjoy a degree of freedom unimagineable elsewhere...

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  6. Punishment: A Failed Social Experiment (2012)

    Director
    Dale Hallatt
    Subject
    Law; Social Studies

    A detailed, critical analysis of the current legal and justice system generally in operation across the planet, whilst also providing potential solutions for preventing crime and creating a much more...

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  7. Ai: A Life in the Age of Intelligent Machines (2019)

    Subject
    Science; Social Studies; Technology

    Leading Cambridge University researchers discuss the far-reaching advances offered by artificial intelligence - and consider the consequences of developing systems that think far beyond human abilities.[13...

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  8. Old Hands: British Labour Camps 1929-1939 (1999)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 35 minutes), £25.00

    Exposes the history of the remote labour camps for the unemployed which were set up and run by successive British governments between 1929 and 1939. David Colledge, a Leeds social historian, acts as the...

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  9. Go West Young Man (1996)

    Director
    Keith Piper
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 4 minutes), On request

    Man hands on misery to man. Father and son resist the stereotypes of their race and gender in this personal / historical survey of bias and prejudice. Montage and masculinity meet in an analysis of the black...

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  10. Christopher’s Movie Matinée: Haphazard Adventures in Flower Power Cinema (1968)

    Director
    Mort Ransen
    Subject
    History; Social Studies

    In 1968, in Yorkville (Toronto), the NFB provided a group of hippies with cameras, film and a few NFB film crew members so they could make a film illustrating their lives and their world. The footage they...

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