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  1. Black Nurses: The Women Who Saved the NHS (2016)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies

    Documentary which tells the story of the thousands of Caribbean and African women who answered the call 70 years ago to come to the UK to save the then ailing health service. [60 minutes]

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  2. Population Change: Migration to the UK (2016)

    Subject
    Geography; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 40 minutes), £40.00

    This resource looks at the causes, impacts and management of the UK’s current period of rapid immigration. The DVD is designed to encourage students to think about migrants’ different countries of...

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  3. Fire at Sea (2016)

    Director
    Gianfranco Rosi
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (108 minutes), £6.99

    Situated 150 miles south of Sicily, Lampedusa has hit headlines as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern refugees hoping to make a new life in Europe. After spending...

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  4. 100 Fishponds Road: Eastville Workhouse’s Paupers Remembered (2016)

    Director
    Ben Pike
    Subject
    History; Social Studies

    In 2015 the Eastville Workhouse Memorial Group in Bristol unveiled a memorial for the 4,084 paupers buried in a mass grave at Rosemary Green. In this short video, Dr Roger Ball and a group of local residents...

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  5. Final Reel, The (2016)

    aka: The Final Reel: The Story of Our Love Affairs with Cinemas

    Director
    Jonathan Blagrove
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £10.99

    From the early days of silent cinema, through the golden age of the picture palace to the modern multiplexes and beyond, this documentary takes an affectionate and entertaining look at Britain’s obsession...

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  6. Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air (2016)

    Director
    Phillip Warnell
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 71 minutes), £10.00

    In October 2003, Antoine Yates was arrested for reckless endangerment following the discovery of his cohabitation in a Harlem high-rise with Ming, a five-hundred-pound tiger and Al, a seven-foot alligator....

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  7. Gleason (2016)

    Director
    Clay Tweel
    Subject
    Medical sciences; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111 minutes), £7.00

    Documentary about former New Orleans Saints defensive back Steve Gleason who was diagnosed with the debilitating motor neuron disease known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in 2011. Captured during a...

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  8. Citizenfour (2015)

    Director
    Laura Poitras
    Subject
    Media studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 114 mins.), £15.99

    In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted emails from someone...

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  9. Southern European Crisis and the Future of Europe (2015)

    Subject
    Economics; Politics & government; Social Studies

    Podcast. Discussion held at Birkbeck College, University of London 30 June 2015. The dramatic developments in Greece culminate on June 30 when the loan to Greece and the austerity conditions attached to it...

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  10. Arab Londoners - Migrants and British Identity (2015)

    Producer
    Jayne Egerton
    Subject
    Anthropology; Social Studies

    Podcast. THINKING ALOUD is a BBC 4 radio discussion series first broadcast in 1998 and hosted by Laurie Taylor focusing on the latest social science research. In this edition Professor Taylor talks to Ramy...

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