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  1. 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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  2. Agora: From Democracy to the Market (2015)

    aka: Agor’a: From Democracy to the Market

    Director
    Yorgos Avgeropoulos
    Subject
    Economics; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), 17.99 Euros

    Documentary about the Greek financial crisis by filmmaker Yorgos Avgeropoulos. This film follows development of the crisis and its impact on people’s lives, including homelessness, unemployment, poverty,...

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  3. Growing Up Poor: The Series (2013)

    Director
    Tim Lawton; Dave Foulkes
    Subject
    Social Studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 57 minutes), £75.00

    Filmed over the summer of 2012, GROWING UP POOR follows six teenagers as they struggle to make ends meet living on less then £10.00 a day. Speaking with quick wit and brutal honesty, each of the film’s...

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  4. Jobless (2010)

    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £75.00

    As the unemployment statistics start to climb once more, multi BAFTA winning film-maker Brian Woods goes behind the numbers to the people they represent, and presents his take on the recession. Filmed...

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  5. Requiem for Detroit (2010)

    Director
    Julien Temple
    Subject
    American Studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195.00

    A BBC documentary about the story of Detroit’s automotive industry. Using extraordinary archive footage, including vivid projections of the city’s heyday on its now abandoned buildings, the testimony of...

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  6. Roger and Me (2004)

    Subject
    Economics; Media studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £12.99

    A tragi-comic documentary in which satirist Michael Moore ruthlessly pursues General Motors CEO Roger Smith to confront him about the harm done to the thriving community of Flint, Michigan when 35,000 jobs...

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  7. Upward Spiral, The (2004)

    Subject
    Careers Guidance; FE; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £44.00

    A video aimed at people who, for a variety of reasons, have been seeking new employment for an extended period. The aim is to inspire the viewer. It features nine real people (not actors) who have been in in...

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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. Life of Jesus, The (1997)

    aka: La Vie de Jesus

    Director
    Bruno Dumont
    Subject
    French studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £42.75

    A story of life’s brutality and exhilaration played out by turns within the quarters of a tiny Flemish country town. Here, positioned in relative isolation from the rest of so-called cultural Europe, the...

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  10. Modelling in the Long Term (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Alison Tucker
    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Focuses on the issue of unemployment in Europe, examining why it has arisen and what can be done to alleviate it. Representatives from the European Commission discuss three different economic theories in...

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