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  1. Joan MirÓ: The Ladder of Escape (2012)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 32 minutes), £15.99

    This documentary explores the life and work of Catalonian artist Joan Miro, and seeks to understand how the political upheavals of of the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the dictatorship of Franco...

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  2. Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields (2011)

    Subject
    Geography; History; Politics & government

    Jon Snow presents a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers. With disturbing and...

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  3. Darfur: Between the Lines (2009)

    Director
    Jeremy Jeffs
    Producer
    Sally Thomas
    Subject
    Geography; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £12.99

    Reports from Al Fasher, once a sleepy desert town of 40,000 but today home to 100,000 refugees and 10,000 UN personnel. The film captures the desperation of daily life in Al Fasher’s sprawling Abu Shouk...

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  4. Escape from Luanda (2008)

    Director
    Phil Grabsky
    Subject
    Education; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 72 minutes), £9.99

    Film about a year in the life of Angola’s only music school, situated in Luanda, the capital of Angola, and one of the world’s poorest and most dangerous places.

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  5. Defenders of the Faith: The Spanish Civil War in Colour (2007)

    Director
    Russell Palmer
    Subject
    Film Studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 153 minutes), £16.99

    Hailed as the first picture to show actual warfare in natural colour footage, DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH uses air-to-air action footage of such events as the Nationalist ‘Flying Turkeys’ squadron strafing...

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  6. Guernica Children, The (2007)

    Producer
    Steve Bowles; Basque Children of ‘37 Association UK
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 62 minutes), £15.00

    In the wake of the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, four thousand Basque refugee children were evacuated to Britain. Seventy years on, we hear their story and how the conflict between...

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  7. Csa: The Confederate States of America (2006)

    Director
    Kevin Wilmott
    Producer
    Spike Lee
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £13.99

    An exercise in counterfactual history which explores what might have happened had the South won the American Civil War. Supposedly produced by a British broadcasting company, the feature film is presented as...

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  8. Night of Truth, The (2006)

    aka: Nuit de la VÉritÉ, La

    Director
    Fanta Régina Nacro
    Subject
    Development studies; Film Studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

    Set in an unnamed African country, after ten years of bloody war, the film dramatises the process of truth and reconciliation, echoing the recent histories of South Africa, Sierra Leone and Rwanda, and...

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  9. Empire Warriors: The British Empire at War 1945-47 (2006)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 369 minutes), £19.99

    A documentary focussing on four key wars fought at the end of the British Empire, featuring original archive and news footage together with dramatic reconstructions of key events and first-hand accounts from...

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  10. Spanish Civil War, The - The Story of a Country at War (2005)

    Subject
    History; Spanish studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £10.99

    Through a consideration of period imagery, along with archived footage, this documentary provides an historical and political insight into the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939.

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