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  1. Eyewitness (2010)

    Producer
    Kate Shiers-Ghellere; Peter Leonard
    Subject
    Psychology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £15.00

    A groundbreaking three-part series, made by the OU in collaboration with Greater Manchester Police, explores the fallibility of human memory in witness testimony, by creating eyewitnesses and looking at real...

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  2. Lake of Fire (2008)

    Director
    Tony Kaye
    Subject
    Medical sciences; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 152 minutes), £15.99

    Filmmaker Tony Kaye presents the definitive work on an incendiary subject. Interviewing pro-choice and pro-life advocates, religious leaders and liberals, academics and campaigners on the front-line of the...

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  3. Street Fight (2008)

    Director
    Marshall Curry
    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 81 minutes), £14.99

    STREET FIGHT chronicles the ferocious political clash in 2002 between Cory Booker, a 32-year-old Yale Law School graduate, and long term incumbent Sharpe James, for Mayor of Newark, N.J. Fought in Newark’s...

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  4. Chinese Schools (2008)

    aka: Chinese School

    Subject
    Education; Geography; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £17.00

    Documentary series about the hopes and dreams of a group of children at three schools in the small Chinese town of Xiuning, in rural Anhui. The programmes focus on the lives of a group of families, teachers...

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  5. Fiat Hamlet (2003 Film)

    aka: Fiat Hamlet, A

    Director
    Armando Ceste
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    No archive copy or distributor known (6/2013)

    Documentary about the Fiat car company and its operations in Turin. The film uses Hamlet as a mirror for scrutinising Turin’s working-class past viewed through Fiat’s failing fortunes. In its industrial...

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  6. Private Lives: Research on Gay Parenting (2002)

    Subject
    Social Studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 30 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Researching other peoples’ intimate and private lives raises a whole host of ethical and moral issues. Just how much can we expect the subjects of our research to give, particularly when the research...

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  7. Driving While Black (2001)

    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 30 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    This film is based in Cincinnati where friction between the Police Department and the African-American population has escalated into confrontation more than once in the past thirty years. The issue of...

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  8. From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1981)

    Director
    Murray Lerner
    Subject
    Music; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 84 minutes), £24.99

    In 1979, as China re-opened its doors to the West, master violinist Isaac Stern received an unprecedented invitation from its governernment to tour the country, performing and mentoring young Chinese...

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  9. Harlan County (1976)

    Director
    Barbara Kopple
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £14.99

    A re-release on DVD of one of the seminal films of the US documentary movement. Barbara Kopple’s 1976 Oscar winner profiles a miners’ strike in Kentucky that saw a corporation playing hardball against...

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  10. Men’s Lives (1976)

    Director
    Will Roberts; Josh Hanig
    Subject
    Social Studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 43 minutes), $185.00 [Institutional rate]

    Produced in the early years of the modern feminist movement, MEN’S LIVES was the first film to look at the damage to men from traditional gender stereotyping.

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