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  1. Dating: The Radiocarbon Way (2010)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Chemistry; Physics

    What is carbon 14? What is a radiocarbon date? Is it the same as a calendar date? What does radiocarbon dating measure and why does it take a long time? How does an accelerator mass spectrometer measure...

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  2. Khumi Lives (2010)

    Director
    Ittukgula Changma
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies

    Khumi is the smallest of the indigenous groups in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of southeastern Bangladesh. In today’s age of globalization, changes are occurring in the animist Khumi peoples’ religion,...

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  3. Iraq Museum, The: The Loss of a Nation’s Memory (2009)

    Subject
    Archaeology

    In April 2003, American troops entered Baghdad and the fog of war descended over the city. The staff of the National Museum of Iraq, under Director Dr. Donny George, were forced to abandon the Museum...

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  4. Number 24 Beizongbu Hutong: Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin’s Former Residence (2009)

    Subject
    Architecture; Geography

    This documentary displays the dilapidated state of the former 20th Century hutong residence of Mr. Liang Sicheng and his wife Ms. Lin Huiyin in Beijing. The couple were among China’s most famous art and...

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  5. Excavating Television (2007)

    Director
    Amy Ramsey
    Subject
    Archaeology; Media studies

    In this personlal short film by University of Southern California student Amy Ramsey, the archaeologist/filmmaker explores what the public knows, and often misconstrues, about her field of study. She...

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  6. Radical Archaeology Television Parody (2007)

    Director
    Bradley Garrett; Adam Fish
    Subject
    Archaeology; Media studies

    A 5-minute parody of the television series DIGGING FOR THE TRUTH, which is broadcast by the History Channel. The episode parodied is MYSTERY OF THE ANASAZI. In the light-hearted commentary, Bradley Garrett...

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  7. Cyark 3d Heritage Archive Network (2007)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Information technology

    This film introduces CyArk, a project of the Kacyra Family Foundation that is preserving the world’s most valued cultural heritage sites in three-dimensional digital form. Realizing that World Heritage...

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  8. Following Antigone: Forensic Anthropology and Human Rights Investigations (2006)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Archaeology

    This film tells how forensic sciences and archaeology have been used to investigate international human-rights abuses in trouble spots around the world. The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), an...

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  9. Erasing Memory: The Cultural Destruction of Iraq (2006)

    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 28 minutes), £19.95

    Part of a 13-part series entitled SHOCKING AND AWFUL, produced by independent video activists and distributed in the US on Free Speech TV and community access channels. The series addresses the implications...

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  10. Network (2006)

    Director
    Andreas Apostolidis
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 60 minutes), $29.95

    In 2005, California’s Getty Museum hit the news: their former curator for antiquities, Marion True has been accused of being involved in an extensive trade in archaeological treasures and went on trial in...

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