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  1. 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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  2. Golden Oldies (2012)

    Director
    Nick Poyntz
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 59 minutes), £75.00

    This documentary looks at the lives of three elderly people: Doris, Kitty and Frank, all of whom are struggling to cope with poverty but attempting to face the future with stoicism and a sense of humour....

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  3. Nurture Room, The (2011)

    Director
    Mike Pinder
    Subject
    Education; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 90 minutes), £75.00

    Mike Pinder’s documentary follows the progress of three troubled young children, with backgrounds in some of the most socially deprived parts of Glasgow. The film shows how their lives are transformed by...

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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. Chosen (2009)

    Director
    Brian Woods
    Subject
    Education; Mental Health and Counselling; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £85.00

    The film deals with a subject often whispered but rarely spoken about - the sexual abuse of boys by teachers in Britain’s private schools. For thirty years the boys, and the men they became, stayed silent...

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  6. Dispatches: Britain’s Challenging Children (2009)

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

    With primary schools across the country being stretched by the violent and disruptive behaviour of a small minority of pupils, an in-depth survey of teachers reveals the impact on their ability to teach....

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  7. Shakespeare’s Merchant (2003 Film)

    Director
    Paul Wagar
    Producer
    Paul Wagar; Brad Mays; Lorenda Starfelt
    Subject
    Drama

    The Merchant of Venice set in contemporary California and focusing on the relationship between Bassanio and Antonio. The film is a modern re-telling of the play - a Jewish woman is raped in broad daylight...

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