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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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End of America, The (2008)

Director

Stern Ricki; Annie Sundberg

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £14.99

Documentary based on The New York Times bestseller of the same name. In an indictment of sweeping policy changes during the Bush years, author Naomi Wolf makes a chilling case that American democracy is...

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War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 45 minutes), $195.00

Norman Solomon analyses the strategies used by US administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to promote their agendas for war, from Vietnam to Iraq. By highlighting the techniques of war propaganda,...

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Moscow Elegy - Alexander Sokurov (2007)

aka: Moskovskaya Elegiya

Director

Alexander Sokurov

Subject

Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £24.99

Originally intended to mark the 50th birthday of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. However, disagreements within the Soviet Professional Union of Cinematographers about the style and content of the film...

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Power of Nightmares, The (3 Parts) (2007)

Director

Adam Curtis

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

DVD (3 x 60 minutes)

Three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain, with particular reference to the American Neoconservatives and radical Islamists.

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Who Killed the Electric Car? (2007)

Director

Chris Paine

Subject

Business studies; Engineering; Politics & government; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

In the 1990s, following California’s passing of the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, American car companies began producing electric cars for mainstream consumption. GM’s EV1, which was by all accounts...

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When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2007)

Director

Spike Lee

Subject

Geography; Politics & government; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 248 minutes), £25.99

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, director Spike Lee, like many who watched the unfolding drama on television news, was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster, but by the slow, inept and...

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Ken Loach Collection Vol 2 (2007)

Director

Ken Loach

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 691 minutes), £59.99

This collection brings together many of Ken Loach’s most celebrated films, along with some that are ripe for rediscovery. This second collection brings together many of his most celebrated films, along...

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Peter Whitehead and the Sixties (2007)

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £14.99

Filmmaker Peter Whitehead was at the heart of Swinging London, chronicling the youth explosion, the burgeoning popular music scene and the counterculture of the 1960s. Two of his films are now released for...

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Taking Liberties (2007)

Director

Chris Atkins

Subject

Law; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes), £15.99

A shocking, polemical film that charts the destruction of basic liberties under 10 years of New Labour. Released to coincide with Tony Blair’s departure, the film and the book follow the stories of normal...

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