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  1. Don’t Panic: How to End Poverty in 15 Years (2015)

    Subject
    Development studies; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £20

    Television documentary. In the week the United Nations presented its new goals for global development, the programme looks at the number one goal for the world: eradicating extreme poverty - the condition...

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. F*ck for Forest (2013)

    Director
    Michael Marczak
    Subject
    Development studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £9.99

    Berlin’s "Fuck For Forest" is one of the world’s most bizarre charities. Based on the idea that sex can save the world, the NGO raises money for their environmental cause by selling home-made erotic...

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  5. Agrofuels: Starving People, Fuelling Greed (2012)

    Director
    Matt Feinstein; Loren Feinstein
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 28 minutes), $125

    An account of the downside of alternative, food-based fuel sources. The film explores agrofuels and monocrops, looking at how the increasingly common practice of diverting food crops to the industrial...

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  6. Micro Debt, The (2011)

    Director
    Tom Heinemann
    Subject
    Development studies; Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 57 minutes), 28 euros

    A critical investigation into the dark side of microcredit, for decades hailed as the key to eradicating poverty in developing countries. However, interest rates from 30 to 200% often make it impossible to...

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  7. Mother: Caring for Seven Billion (2011)

    aka: Mother: Caring for 7 Billion

    Director
    Christophe Fauchere
    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £39.50

    Since the 1960s world population has nearly doubled and now tops seven billion. Population growth, though little discussed, is putting an unprecedented burden on the planet’s life systems. This film brings...

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  8. Birdwatchers (2010)

    aka: (Terra Degli Uomini Rossi, La

    Director
    Marco Bechis
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 108 minutes), £15.99

    A drama in which a group of indigenous people face off against the modern day owners of their ancestral homeland.In Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the farming classes lead a wealthy and leisurely existence....

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  9. Banking the Unbanked (2010)

    Director
    Sarah Vos
    Subject
    Development studies; Economics; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 56 minutes), $390.00

    Ever since microfinance entrepreneur Muhammad Yunus won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, microfinance projects have played a growing role in international development. For executives like Reliance Financial CEO...

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  10. African Election, An (2010)

    Director
    Jarreth Merz
    Subject
    Development studies; Geography; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £9.99

    For three months documentary filmmakers Jarreth Merz and Kevin Merz followed Nana Akufo-Addo of the right-leaning NNP party and Atta Mills of the left wing NDC party as they went round Ghana, making speeches...

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