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  1. World in Action: Volume 4 (2014)

    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 628 minutes), £14.40

    This DVD collects a number of notable episodes from the ITV current affairs series which ran from 1963-1999. The Granada-produced series was trailblazing and hard-hitting, choosing subjects that other...

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  2. Gatekeepers (2013)

    Director
    Dror Moreh
    Producer
    Estelle Fialon; Philippa Kowarsky; Abner Shahaf
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £17.99

    Filmmaker Dror Moreh offers an intimate look into the Palestine-Israeli conflict from the perspective of the Shin Bet, who serve as the primary source of intelligence and counterterrorism measures in Israel.

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  3. Village Under the Forest, The (2013)

    Director
    Mark J Kaplan
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £39.50

    Unfolding as a personal meditation from the Jewish Diaspora, this programme explores the hidden remains of the destroyed Palestinian village of Lubya, which lies under a purposely cultivated forest...

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  4. Iraq War, The (2013)

    Producer
    Norma Percy
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

    This three part series tells the story of the Iraq War, from planning to invasion and eventual occupation, using the testimony of top US, European and Iraqi leaders (political and military). Among the...

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  5. Visualising the Past: Rebranding the Present (2012)

    Director
    Jessica Jacobs
    Subject
    Geography; History; Politics & government

    In 2009 the director, a cultural geographer, spent 8 months filming in Amman and Damascus for a collaborative ESRC-funded research project on the role of heritage in these ‘Levantine’ cities. The four...

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  6. Tunisia: The Death of Fear (2011)

    Subject
    Geography; History; Politics & government

    In an exclusive documentary Rageh Omaar traces the roots and repercussions of the uprising in Tunisia - a revolution which ended half a century of autocratic rule and inspired a wave of public protest that...

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  7. Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark (2011)

    Subject
    Geography; Politics & government

    Bahrain: An island kingdom in the Arabian Gulf where the Shia Muslim majority are ruled by a family from the Sunni minority. Where people fighting for democratic rights broke the barriers of fear, only to...

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  8. Mixed Up in the Middle East (2011)

    Director
    Elizabeth Byrne
    Subject
    Arabic studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195.00

    As the daughter of an Arab Muslim father and Jewish mother, Reya El-Salahi travels to the heart of Israel to understand the reality of living with the conflict in the Middle East. She faces the dangers and...

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  9. Battle for the Arab Viewer, The (2011)

    Director
    Nordin Lasfar
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 48 minutes), $375.00

    n early 2011, people around the world tuned into Al Jazeera to watch the Egyptian revolution in real time. Meanwhile, rival broadcaster Al Arabiya was also offering near continuous coverage, with cameras on...

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  10. Syria: The Assad’s Twilight (2011)

    Director
    Vicent de Cointet; Christophe Ayad
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), $348

    A portrait of the Assad regime, from its origins to 2011. During the 1970s, Bashar’s father, Hafez al-Assad, turned Syria into one of the world’s most secretive and repressive dictatorships. In 1982, he...

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