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  1. Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi (2014)

    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science; Media studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 179 minutes), £29.99 (inclusive)

    Two of the three films from the Qatsi trilogy. They are cinematic essays on the impact of technological progress on the earth and its peoples, set to scores by Philip Glass. The photographic effects,...

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  2. Worlds of English (2013)

    Subject
    Languages; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £34.99

    The decision to use English in countries where it is not the first language is controversial. English is often attacked for causing real social and cultural damage. In South Africa, some schools are refusing...

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  3. Future is Now, The (2012)

    Director
    Gary Burns; Jim Brown
    Subject
    Philosophy; Psychology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 91 minutes), Canadian $ 24.95

    A drama-documentary in which a journalist meets "The Man of Today" who, while a responsible citizen, is disengaged from greater society. He believes once he’s dead nothing more matters!. As an experiment...

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  4. Placing the Author: Wordsworth, De Quincey and Dove Cottage/ The Poets of Harlem (2012)

    Subject
    Geography; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £12.00

    This video, taken from the Open University’s A230 Reading and Studying module, looks at how landscapes and communities have influenced some of our most famous poetry. From William Wordsworth’s Daffodils...

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  5. Civilization - Is the West History? (2011)

    Subject
    Economics; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 280 minutes), £19.99

    Financial historian and writer Professor Niall Ferguson explores Western civilization’s global dominance. Based on Ferguson’s own book, Civilization: The West and the Rest, the six-part documentary looks...

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  6. Catching Salinger (2010)

    Director
    Frédéric Beigbeder
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 53 minutes), $19.99

    With the publication in 1951 of his best-selling book, "Catcher in the Rye," Jerome David Salinger became one of the fundamental American writers of the Twentieth Century. For reasons that still remain...

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  7. Alice Neel (2009)

    Director
    Andrew Neel
    Subject
    Art; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 77 minutes), £19.99

    Director Andrew Neel delves into the personal and professional life of his famous grandmother, painter Alice Neel, in this documentary. Born in 1900, Alice Neel lived an unconventional life as both a single...

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  8. Reading Between the Lines: Understanding Culture in Qualitative Research (2009)

    Subject
    Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 50 minutes), $95.00

    Qualitative research provides us with a means to gain a deep description of the lives we study. But entering in a community can be difficult. We have to suspend our own cultural lens while examining the...

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  9. Two Versions of Hell (2008)

    Director
    James T Hong
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 27 minutes), $295.00

    This is a multi-award winning documentary about Unit 731, Japan’s secret World War II biological and chemical weapons facility in the Chinese town of Harbin where biological weapons were developed during...

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  10. Art of Regret, The (2008)

    Director
    Judith MacDougall
    Subject
    Anthropology; Art; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

    Photography is known in China as the "Art of Regret". In the rapidly changing city of Kunming, people are ambivalent about whether they want photography to be a medium of preservation and evidence, or of...

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