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  1. Meltdown: In the Shadow of Nepal’s Lost Glaciers (2007)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography

    In 1986 a small glacial lake in the Khumbu region of Nepal burst its banks washing away a hydro-electric power station, many bridges and many lives. This was just a taste of what is to come. There are much...

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  2. Monday’s Child - A Baby Born in Rural Nepal (2005)

    Director
    Meg Leng; Lynn Barnett
    Subject
    Anthropology; Mental Health and Counselling; Psychology; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), £50.00

    A rare and important piece of infant development material, which documents in detail the development of a baby, born in winter to a subsistence farming family in rural Nepal. It shows the effects of an...

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  3. Aa302 Videocassette a (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale?, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 173 min.

    A sequence of sections on music including: music from Mali and Nepal; the Eton Choir Book; composing for films; Indian music; Sundanese gamelan; historical keyboard instruments

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  4. Discipline with Dignity (1998 Video)

    Director
    Mohan Bista; Mohan Mainali
    Producer
    Mohan Bista; Mohan Mainali
    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Sale - see TRIUMPH OVER TERROR, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., See: TRIUMPH OVER TERROR

    After former teacher Devendra Ale began to work with CVICT, an organisation helping to rehabilite victims of torture from Burma and Nepal, he began to campaign against the use of corporal punishment in...

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  5. Adaptable Kingdom, The: Music and Dance in Nepal (1994)

    Director
    Deben Bhattacharya
    Producer
    Deben Bhattacharya
    Subject
    Anthropology; Dance; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £19.95

    A film on the Hindu kingdom in the Himalayas where tribal animism, Buddhism and Hinduism live in harmony. In the folklore of Nepal, religious mask dances accompanied by the sound of large barrel drums...

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  6. Ujeli: A Child Bride in Nepal (1992 Video)

    Director
    Deependra Gauchan
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    The tragic drama of a 10-year-old Nepalese girl forced into early marriage and child-bearing, despite medical warnings.

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  7. Working Hands: Tibetan Women Weavers in Nepal (1990 Video)

    Producer
    Marieke Schoenmakers
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 27 min.

    Follows a working day among the Tibetan women carpet weavers in Jawalakhel, on the edge of the Kathmandu valley in Nepal, discussing such subjects as relationships between gender and labour, children and...

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  8. Glance of Genius, The: B H Hodgson in the Himalayas (1983 Video)

    Director
    Tristram Riley-Smith
    Producer
    Tristram Riley-Smith
    Subject
    Anthropology; History
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 42 min.

    B H Hodgson (1800-1894) was renowned in the 19th century as a diplomat, linguist, zoologist, ethnologist and collector. He spent almost 40 years living in the Himalayas - mainly in Nepal and Darjeeling -...

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  9. Sherpas of Nepal, The (1977 Film, Video)

    Producer
    Leslie Woodhead
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A study of the diverse life-styles of three Sherpa brothers, all born in the village of Thami. Phowa Tensing is portrayed, together with his parents, as pursuing the traditional way of life of a Khumbu...

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  10. Trading Societies of Western Nepal (1972 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), £50.00

    Discusses the traditional trans-Himalayan trade links the relatively low-altitude, grain-growing regions of Nepal with high-altitude Tibet, the traditional source of most of the salt and wool imported by...

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