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  1. Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (2015)

    Director
    Pratibha Parmar
    Subject
    History; Literature; Social Studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 84 minutes), $395

    Feature film documentary. Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple. Her early life unfolded in the midst of...

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  2. How to Survive a Plague (2014)

    Director
    David France
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £12.99

    Filmmaker David France tracks the efforts made by activist groups ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) to convince the government and the pharmaceutical industry to speed up human trials of experimental...

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  3. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Closures and Continuities (2013)

    Subject
    Law; Women’s studies

    The Birkbeck School of Law Annual Law Lecture for 2013/2014 is by Angela Davis, who is a political activist, writer and Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC...

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  4. Forbidden Voices: How to Start a Revolution with a Computer (2013)

    Director
    Miller Freeman plc
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 96 minutes), $395.00

    Documentary about three young women who use social media to document, denounce and combat violations of human rights and free speech in their countries. Yoani Sánchez, Zeng Jinyan and Farnaz Seifi are...

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  5. This is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)

    Subject
    Economics; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 46 minutes), $250.00

    For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as "the commons" -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most...

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  6. Creating a Movement - The Struggle for Inclusive Education in the UK 1990 - 2006 (2009)

    Director
    Stefan Szczelkun
    Subject
    Education; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £7.00

    The movement for Inclusive Education is largely misunderstood and under-reported in the media. This DVD is relevant to everyone who wants to work towards a society in which exclusivity is not an organising...

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  7. Making Sense of Sociological Theory (1998)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    Focuses on sociological theories of society - that is general theoretical models of how societies work and change. The video begins by introducing the key sociological problem of the individual and society...

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  8. Black Panther (1969)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies

    This is the film the Black Panthers used to promote their cause. Shot in 1969, in Oakland, San Francisco and Sacramento, this exemplar of 1960s activist filmmaking traces the development of the Black Panther...

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