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This Academy Award-nominated documentary-study is a coming-of-age saga drawing on over 12 years of footage in Rockford, Illinois, hit hard by decades of recession. A quest to understand why so many of the...
Seven short films featuring leading sociologists talking about key concepts in Crime and Deviance: Moral Panics (with Stan Cohen); The Functions of Crime (Steve Taylor); Hate Crime (Neil Chakraborti);...
Four films that introduce students to major issues and debates encountered at the start of any Sociology course. ‘What Is Sociology’ introduces problems of order, change and the relationship between the...
The decision to use English in countries where it is not the first language is controversial. English is often attacked for causing real social and cultural damage. In South Africa, some schools are refusing...
Filmed over the summer of 2012, GROWING UP POOR follows six teenagers as they struggle to make ends meet living on less then £10.00 a day. Speaking with quick wit and brutal honesty, each of the film’s...
Based on the Lewis Mumford book, ‘The Culture of Cities’, which analyses the historical phases and modern social consequences of metropolitan life. Made for the 1939 New York World’s Fair ("The World...
Part 3 of the documentary series CHILD OF OUR TIME in which Professor Robert Winston follows the lives of 25 British children until the age of 20. For this edition, all the children have been filmed...
East London Muslim girl Shahanara is changing from pink hot pants into a sari to meet her husband at the airport. She has only met him once before, when she was married in a union arranged by her Bangladeshi...
In 1989 an entire way of life ended for millions of people behind the Iron curtain. But what was it like to live under communist rule in Eastern and Central Europe? After the end of the cold war some east...
Tells the story of a small group of students at the University of California in Berkeley in the 1960s who challenged the establishment and changed the face of America. What started as an interest in politics...
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