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  1. Waking the Green Tiger (2012)

    Director
    Gary Marcuse
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 78 minutes), C$250.00

    Seen through the eyes of activists, farmers, and journalists Waking the Green Tiger follows an extraordinary campaign to stop a huge dam project on the upper Yangtze river in southwestern China. Featuring...

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  2. Chocolate Farmer, The (2012)

    Director
    Rohan Fernando
    Subject
    Agriculture; Anthropology; Development studies; Environmental science; Geography

    An unspoiled corner of southern Belize, where cocoa farmer and father Eladio Pop manually works his plantation in the tradition of his Mayan ancestors: as a steward of the land. The film captures a year in...

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  3. 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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  4. Coi Collection: Vol 7: The Queen on Tour (2012)

    Subject
    Geography; History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 234 minutes), £19.99

    To coincide with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, this seventh compilation of films made by the Central Office of Information (COI) presents colour footage of the Queen and the Royal Family travelling the...

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  5. Tibet: The Bamboo Curtain Falls (2012)

    Producer
    Simon Normanton
    Subject
    Geography; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 50 minutes), $7.49

    A 1981 episode of The World About Us that documents the history of political struggle between Tibet and China through archival film shot by western travellers in the early part of the century. Shows daily...

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  6. China: The Long March - Historic 1986 TV Expedition (2012)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 48 minutes), $7.49

    China was only just opening up to the west when this Sydney Australia TV crew were given access, uprecedented to foreigners until that date, to document, film and photograph the entire epic 8,000 mile length...

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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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