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  1. Norte, The End of History (2014)

    Director
    Lav Diaz
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 250 minutes), £8.69

    In the northern Philippine province of Luzon, a law-school dropout commits a horrific double murder; a gentle family man takes the fall and receives a life sentence, leaving behind a wife and two kids. A...

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  2. People of Clay: The Twa of Rwanda (2000 Video)

    Director
    Stephen Broadfield
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 2000 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

    Documents the difficult and often tragic fortunes of Rwanda’s indigenous people. Formerly a peaceful hunter-gatherer tribe, the Twa have encountered hatred and racist intolerance and became victims of the...

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  3. Soaps for Social Change (2000 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) UK education

    Behind the scenes of a television and radio soap opera in the Philippines that incorporates the value of social and behavioural change in its message. Includes a brief history of serial dramas that have...

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  4. Seattle Syndrome (2000)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    VHS (PAL, 24 minutes), £30.00

    Many factory workers in the Philippines want an improvement in their working conditions and rates of pay. But they are also scared of losing their jobs if they protest too loudly. Their jobs depend on the...

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  5. Sinsin: Spirits on Stage (1998 Video)

    aka: Sinsin: Le Theatre des Genies: La Dramaturgie Rituelle de Punang-Iraraj

    Director
    Charles MacDonald
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 34 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In Punang, a small coastal area in the southern part of Pulawan island off the Philippines, a young woman, Miming, undergoes the first ceremony of her ‘sinsin’ ritual cycle. In undergoing this ritual she...

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  6. Fuelling the Philippine Tiger (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Mercia Seminara
    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    After years of military dictatorship, the Philippines is now giving priority to economic development by opening its doors to international companies. This programme looks at the problems relating to the...

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  7. Women in the Mines (1996 Video)

    Director
    Tess Fajardo
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 23 min., 2000 hire: £5.00 (+p&p) for 2 weeks

    Highlights women’s perspectives as large-scale mining dislocates indigenous communities in the Philippines from land they have inhabited and managed for centuries.

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  8. Almost Like Fire (1995 Video)

    Director
    Richard Stanley
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Follows development worker Fely Villareal as she journeys home to the Philippines to look at the progress of women’s groups. On the island of Cabugao women have set up their own fishing enterprises, but...

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  9. Human Laboratory, The (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Deborah Cadbury
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Investigates research carried out on women in Third World coutries using the implanted contraceptive Norplant. Presents testimony from women in the slums and villages of Bangladesh and Haiti, examines the...

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  10. Dispossessed, The (4 Parts) (1991 Video)

    Director
    Ian Stuttard
    Producer
    Ros Franey
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. col. 4 x 60 min.

    A survey of the world refugee situation, highlighting those communities who are falling through the cracks in the old world order while nations try to build a new one.

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