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  1. City, The (2009)

    Director
    Willard Van Dyke; Ralph Steiner
    Producer
    Ralph Steiner
    Subject
    Architecture; Geography; Music; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 132 minutes), £14.99

    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...

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  2. 24 Hours (2008)

    Subject
    Psychology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195.00

    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...

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  3. Meet the Immigrants (2008)

    Subject
    Geography; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180), £17.99

    This DVD contains the six programmes from the BBC1 observational documentary series which looks at the lives of several members of the new wave of inward migration into the UK. It takes the audience into...

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  4. Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears (2008)

    Director
    Simon Chambers
    Subject
    Social Studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 63 minutes), £50.00

    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...

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  5. Lost World of Communism, The (2008)

    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.56

    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...

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  6. Berkeley in the Sixties (2007)

    Director
    Mark Kirchelle
    Subject
    Politics & government; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 117 minutes), £15.99

    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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  7. Salesman (2007)

    Director
    Albert Maysles; David Maysles
    Subject
    Business studies; Psychology; Religious studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £19.99

    Honoured by the Library of Congress as one of the 25 best American films ever made, SALESMAN is a fascinating, non-narrated account of four Boston bible sellers, selling lavish bibles to low income families....

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  8. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2007)

    Director
    Spike Lee
    Subject
    Geography; Politics & government; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 248 minutes), £25.99

    When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, director Spike Lee, like many who watched the unfolding drama on television news, was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster, but by the slow, inept and...

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  9. Wild Style (2007)

    Director
    Charlie Ahearn
    Subject
    Music; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 82 minutes), £17.99

    A movie whose influence cannot be under-estimated and hailed as the most inspirational hip-hop of movie of all time, It captures the birth of an underground hip-hop scene about to explode around the world...

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  10. Liverpool on Film: 1897 to 1967 (2007)

    Subject
    Architecture; History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £9.99

    To mark Liverpool’s 800th birthday this DVD of archive film footage tells the story of Liverpool during the turbulent times of the twentieth century. Liverpool was one of the first cities in the world to...

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