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  1. Only the Dead (2015)

    Director
    Michael Ware
    Subject
    History; Politics & government

    Documentary by Australian journalist Michael Ware which tells the story of the insurgency led by militant Islamist Abu Musab al Zarqawi during the Iraq War through footage filmed by Ware during the war.

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  2. Shaker Aamer: A Decade of Injustice (2012)

    Director
    Mark Saunders
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 22 minutes), £40.00

    This short film tells the story of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident held in Guantánamo Bay, without having been charged or put on trial. The film features exclusive footage of the ongoing fight for...

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  3. Restrepo (2010)

    Director
    Sebastian Junger; Tim Hetherington
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 93 minutes), £6.99

    Restrepo focuses on the deployment of a US platoon in Afghanistan’s hostile Korengal Valley . Over the course of 15 months, the two filmmakers Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger (author of ‘The...

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  4. Alistair Cooke: The Essential Letters from America: 2000 - 2004 (2010)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 300 minutes), £18.35

    This last selection of Cooke’s letters focuses on the turbulent times in the US in the first years of the new millennium, covering the famously controversial 2000 election, in which George W. Bush narrowly...

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  5. Oath, The (2010)

    Director
    Laura Poitras
    Subject
    Arabic studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 96 minutes), £9.99

    Two men who were part of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network look back on their past in this documentary from director Laura Poitras. Before the September 11, 2001 attacks, Abu Jandal was one of bin Laden’s...

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  6. Four Days Inside Guantanamo (2010)

    aka: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo

    Director
    Luc Côté; Patricio Henriquez; Andrea Henriquez
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £9.99

    FOUR DAYS INSIDE GUANTANAMO is a documentary based on security camera footage from the Guantánamo Bay prison. Based on seven hours of video footage declassified by the Canadian courts, this documentary...

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  7. God Debate, The (2010)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Religious studies

    Professor Terry Eagleton’s Gifford Lecture - The God Debate was recorded on 1 March, 2010 at the Playfair Library Hall, the University of Edinburgh. In his lecture, Professor Eagleton asks "Why has God...

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  8. War on Democracy, The (2008)

    Director
    John Pilger; Chris Martin
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £19.99

    Focusing on the political state of Latin America, the film is a rebuke of both the United States’ intervention in foreign countries’ domestic politics, and its war on terrorism. John Pilger’s 2007...

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  9. Contempt of Conscience (2008)

    Director
    Joe Jenkins
    Subject
    Philosophy; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £25.00

    At the beginning of the 20th century 80% of war casualties were combatants. At the beginning of the 21st century 80% of war casualties were civilians. Today, civilians pay for war like never before. As the...

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  10. Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror

    Director
    John Pilger; Steve Connelly
    Producer
    Christopher Martin; Richard Clemmow
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), $295.00 [Institutional licence]

    Award-winning journalist John Pilger investigates the discrepancies between American and British claims for the ‘war on terror’ and the facts on the ground as he finds them in Afghanistan and Washington,...

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