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  1. Why Democracy? (Short Films) (2007)

    Subject
    Development studies; Philosophy; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Not In Distribution

    In October 2007, ten one-hour films focusing on contemporary democracy were broadcast in the world’s largest ever factual media event. Running alongside the 10 documentaries, and integral to the outreach...

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  2. Kanyini (2007)

    Director
    Melanie Hogan
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Geography; Social Studies

    Based on Bob Randall’s biography ‘Songman: Story of an Aboriginal Elder’. Bob is an indigenous man who lives beside Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock) in central Australia. Based on his own personal...

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  3. Black Gold (2007)

    Director
    Nick Francis; Marc Francis
    Subject
    Development studies; Economics; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 78 minutes), £9.99

    An investigation into the global coffee trade, illustrating how poor farmers in Third World countries are being left penniless as their richer First World counterparts continue to pay them far less than they...

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  4. Chicken Madness (2007)

    Director
    Marcello Faraggi
    Subject
    Development studies; Economics; Geography

    How Europe’s exports harm Africa - a film on globalisation, drawing on the example of exporting surplus European chicken to Cameroon. (29 minutes). in a second programme CHICKEN MADNESS - STUDIO DISCUSSION...

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  5. Ghana’s Roosting Bird (2007)

    Director
    Miriam Rowe; Gemma Gander
    Subject
    Agriculture; Development studies; Economics; Geography

    A short film looking at what Ghanaian farmer’s have to battle with. Despite plentiful fields, cheap imports and a lack of support from the Ghanaian government means that farmers cannot easily supply their...

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  6. Living with Corruption (2007)

    aka: Dispatches: How to Get Ahead in Africa

    Subject
    Development studies; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £100.00

    Journalist Sorious Samara goes undercover to investigate corruption in Africa. The programme provides a sober portrait of how modern politics works in many African nations, with most of the population living...

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  7. Night of Truth, The (2006)

    aka: Nuit de la VÉritÉ, La

    Director
    Fanta Régina Nacro
    Subject
    Development studies; Film Studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

    Set in an unnamed African country, after ten years of bloody war, the film dramatises the process of truth and reconciliation, echoing the recent histories of South Africa, Sierra Leone and Rwanda, and...

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  8. Silent Waters (2006)

    Director
    Sabiha Sumar
    Subject
    Development studies; Film Studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £19.99

    The first feature by Pakistani independent documentary filmmaker Sabiha Sumar, is an intense and rare cinematic perspective of the political evolution of Pakistan, the advent of fundamentalism and the...

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  9. Deep Roots Music (2006)

    Subject
    Development studies; Music; Religious studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 310 minutes), ££17.99

    A history of Reggae and Rasta culture in six episodes. It explores the origins of Reggae in the music and dance of early Jamaican slaves, and the isolationist Maroon culture that maintained many African...

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  10. India: A Pound of Flesh - Selling Kidneys to Survive (2006)

    Subject
    Development studies; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    DVD

    Samantha Grant heads to Chennai in southern India to explore the illicit kidney trade. Travelling between India’s high-tech center of Bangalore and the slums to the south, Grant spoke to government...

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