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  1. Safety in Numbers (2010)

    Director
    Nick Mason
    Subject
    Psychology; Sports science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £12.99

    Each year a group of amateur British cyclists known as The Fireflies completes an eight-day, 1,000km ride through the French Alps to raise money for leukaemia research, adopting the motto ‘For those who...

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  2. Chevolution (2009)

    Director
    Luis Lopez; Tricia Ziff
    Subject
    Art; Media studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £12/99

    In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto ‘Korda’ Diaz captured a photo of Che Guevara during a mass funeral. History conspired to enable this dynamic portrait to explode on the world scene where it became an...

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  3. Our Daily Bread (2008)

    Director
    Nikolaus Geyrhalter
    Subject
    Agriculture; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £15.99

    Comparable to the work of Stanley Kubrick in terms of its formidable formal rigour, and visually in a field of its own, this powerful documentary is a captivating look at the agriculture industry throughout...

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  4. Žižek : The Reality of the Virtual (2008)

    Director
    Astra Taylor
    Subject
    Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes), £15.99

    Lacanian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek has been described as ‘the Elvis of cultural theory’, a misleading though at times strangely apposite title for the one-time Slovenian...

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  5. Bill Viola - The Eye of the Heart (2007)

    Subject
    Art; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 59 minutes), £24.99

    Bill Viola is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading visual artists. A pioneer of video art since its early days in the 1970s, he has constantly pushed the limits of technology, but has also been...

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  6. Iraq in Fragments (2007)

    Director
    James Longley
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

    This incredibly photographed, well-balanced documentary looks at life in war-torn Iraq through the eyes of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds and is the sum of the two years American director James Longley struggled...

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  7. Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, The (2006)

    Director
    Sophie Fiennes
    Subject
    Film Studies; Media studies; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 150 minutes), £21.99

    THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA takes the viewer on a ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst, who...

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  8. Battle of Orgreave, The (2006)

    Director
    Mike Figgis
    Subject
    Art; Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 63 minutes), £19.99

    The Battle of Orgreave was a re-enactment of one of the most violent confrontations of the 1984/5 miners strike, when police mounted a cavalry charge through the mining village of Orgreave in south...

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  9. Live Art Work: Issues 1-4 (2006)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £10.00 each

    A quarterly DVD publication which presents documentation of contemporary live art performances from around the world, introducing an international audience to new artists and new work. Issue 1 is themed...

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  10. Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens (2006)

    Director
    Barbara Leibovitz
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £12.99

    This documentary on Annie Leibovitz, directed by her sister Barbara, is a fascinating portrait of a great talent, featuring footage from Leibovitz in action during the 1960s and contributions from Arnold...

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