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  1. Girl Rising (2014)

    Director
    Richard Robbins
    Subject
    Development studies; Education; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 103 minutes), £13.99

    This film follows nine girls from Haiti, Nepal, Ethiopia, India, Egypt, Peru, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan on their journey to education. the girls face arranged marriages, child slavery and other...

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  2. Anita: Speaking Truth to Power (2013)

    Director
    Freida Mock
    Subject
    American Studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 77 minutes), $295.00

    In 1991 Anita Hill, a law professor from Oklahoma, sat before a US Senate committee of 14 white men and with a clear, unwavering voice recounted the repeated acts of sexual harassment she had endured while...

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  3. Growing Cities (2013)

    aka: Growing Cities: A Film About Urban Farming in America

    Subject
    Agriculture; American Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 93 minutes), $18.71

    From rooftop farmers to backyard beekeepers, Americans are growing food like never before. Growing Cities goes coast to coast to tell the stories of these intrepid urban farmers, activists, and everyday...

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  4. Art21: Art in the 21st Century (2013)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes each), £287.84

    Award-winning series of 24 programmes in which 100 contemporary artists explain their creations, their creative processes, and their perceptions of art. The series covers a wide range of contemporary artists...

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  5. Pandora’s Promise (2013)

    Director
    Robert Stone
    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £29.99

    Documentary about nuclear power. The film asks whether the one technology we fear most could save our planet from a climate catastrophe while providing the energy needed to lift billions of people in the...

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  6. Hanging in the Balance: The Future of a Forest (2012)

    Director
    Michael Schwarz
    Subject
    Environmental science

    The Amazon forest is the largest tropical forest on earth, and so it plays a critical role in regulating global climate: it stores huge amounts of carbon and emits 20 percent of the world’s life-giving...

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  7. Flirting with Danger (2012)

    Director
    Sut Jhally
    Subject
    Social Studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (52 minutes), $250.00

    Social and developmental psychologist and author Lynn Phillips explores the line between consent and coercion in this thought-provoking look at popular culture and the ways real girls and women navigate...

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  8. Taking the Long View: The Life of Shiing-Shen Chern (2011)

    Director
    George Paul Csicsery
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 60 minutes), $25.00

    Biographical documentary examining the life of Shiing-shen Chern (1911-2004). Chern is one of the fathers of modern differential geometry. The film traces his life and accomplishments through interviews with...

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  9. To Secret Rosies (2011)

    aka: Rosies: The Female Computers of Wwii

    Director
    LeAnn Erickson
    Subject
    History; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.00

    In 1942 soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a secret military program was launched to recruit female mathematicians who would become human ‘computers’ for the US military. Top Secret...

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  10. 101 Gadgets That Changed the World (2011)

    Subject
    Technology

    From the telephone to TVs and laptop computers, advances in technology have altered the way we interact with each other and the world around us. In this programme, a panel of tech gurus attempts to rank the...

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