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  1. China: Triumph and Turmoil (2012)

    Subject
    Economics; Geography; History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.99

    Three part documentary series in which Niall Ferguson explores China’s position as an emerging economic superpower, and its subsequent relationship with the rest of the world. He travels through China...

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  2. Vortex - Life in One of the Poorest Village in Hungary (2012)

    Subject
    Geography; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 76 minutes), £41.99

    Filmed over six months, in Hungarian with English subtitles, this documentary follows three families in the village of Told, one of the poorest villages in Hungary. Isolation, poverty and discrimination...

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  3. Urbanized (2012)

    Director
    Gary Hustwit
    Subject
    Architecture; Design; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 85 minutes), £17.99

    The final film in Gary Hustwit ‘s so-called ‘Design film trilogy’ (which began with HELVETICA and continued with OBJECTIFIED) is an upbeat, visually inventive look at the way cities around the world...

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  4. British Transport Films Collection Volume Ten: London on the Move (2012)

    Subject
    Geography; History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 250 minutes), £19.99

    Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948, the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit. Launched on 1st May 1949, and led for 25 years by Edgar Anstey, a founding...

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  5. Secrets of Our Living Planet (2012)

    Subject
    Biology; Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 236 minutes), £19.99

    Four part BBC documentary presented by Chris Packham, who uses recent scientific discoveries to explore the different ecosystems which enable life to exist on earth through a series of complex and...

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  6. Orbit: Earth’s Extraordinary Journey (2012)

    Subject
    Geography; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 176 minutes), £19.99

    Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski present this programme charting Earth’s 940 million kilometre, one-year journey around the sun and explain how this is essential to maintaining life as we know it, giving...

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  7. Dubai: Miracle or Mirage (2012)

    Subject
    Business studies; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 60 minutes), £110.00 [University rate]

    This one-hour documentary examines one of the world’s most fascinating and fastest developing city-states. Dubai, while a centre of luxury and excess, is also home to hundred of thousands of migrant...

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  8. Visualising the Past: Rebranding the Present (2012)

    Director
    Jessica Jacobs
    Subject
    Geography; History; Politics & government

    In 2009 the director, a cultural geographer, spent 8 months filming in Amman and Damascus for a collaborative ESRC-funded research project on the role of heritage in these ‘Levantine’ cities. The four...

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  9. Managing the Dorset Coast (2012)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 41 minutes), £49.00

    How is it possible to balance the needs of the 25,000 visitors who descend on Studland Bay on a busy day, while simultaneously meeting the requirements of Europe’s largest oil field and protect the...

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  10. Great Migrations (2011)

    Subject
    Biology; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (272 minutes), $29.99 (Blu-ray) £19.99 (DVD)

    A seven-part television series that follows the arduous journeys millions of animals undertake to ensure the survival of their species. Shot from land and air, in trees and cliff-blinds, on ice floes and...

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