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  1. Breeding Cells (2009)

    aka: Schwangere Zellen

    Director
    Anna Straube; Gregor Gaida; Mirren Artola; Saskia Warzeka
    Subject
    Anthropology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 39 minutes), £20.00

    Filmed in the ward of reproductional medicine at Charite Hospital in Berlin, this video looks at the procedures involved in a fertility clinic through an experimental anthropological gaze. Concerned with the...

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  2. Maillart’s Bridges (2008)

    Director
    Heinz Emigholz; Karen Severns
    Subject
    Architecture; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 114 minutes), $29.95

    Continuing his exploration of "architecture as autobiography," filmmaker Heinz Emigholz focuses here on the work of Swiss artist, civil engineer, and legendary bridge builder Robert Maillart, who...

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  3. Wave, The (2008)

    Director
    Dennis Gansel
    Subject
    Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £17.99

    Film dramatisation, transposed to modern-day Germany, of an actual experiment in which American high school teacher Ron Jones attempted to engage his students in politics, by taking the controversial...

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  4. Reichsorchester: The Berlin Philharmonic and the Third Reich (2008)

    Director
    Enruque Sanchez Lansch
    Subject
    History; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 90 minutes), £13.61

    This documentary explores the Berlin Philharmonic’s controversial relationship with the Third Reich during 1933 to 1945. Featuring first hand accounts of the time from surviving orchestra members Erich...

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  5. Life in Plastic (2008)

    Director
    Bertram Verhaag
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 26 minutes), £39.00

    Most types of plastic that we use every day are nearly non-degradable, and as time goes by they release many of their (often hormonally efficacious) additives into the environment. Then spread by wind, water...

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  6. Masks, Fetishes and Other Obsessions: A Voyage into Traditional African Art (2008)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), £120 [University rate]

    Lekha Sarkar explores the myths and stereotypes associated with traditional African masks and through them their associated cultures. She traces her journey to Togo and the Cameroon, to High priests,...

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  7. Berlin Alexanderplatz (2007)

    Director
    Rainer Werner Fassbinder
    Subject
    German studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 910 minutes), £54.99

    Fassbinder’s television serialisation of Alfred Döblin’s novel ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz’, made in 13 parts plus epilogue. It tells the story of Franz Biberkopf who, on his release from prison, is...

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  8. Woman in the Moon (2007)

    aka: Frau in Mond

    Director
    Fritz Lang
    Subject
    Film studies; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 163 minutes), £19.99

    FRAU IM MOND is: (a) The first feature-length film to portray space-exploration in a serious manner, paying close attention to the science involved in launching a vessel from the surface of the earth to the...

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  9. Shakespeare Box - Werke (2006 Audio)

    aka: Hörspiel-Archiv auf 40 Cds, Das

    Subject
    Drama

    The 40 CD box set consists of a collection of 28 radio adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays (including a recording of Sir Thomas More) produced and broadcast on German and Austrian public radio service...

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  10. Macbeth - Schlafes Moerder (2006 Television, Video)

    aka: Macbeth - Schlafes Moerder Macbeth - The Murder of Sleep

    Director
    Peter Buchholz; Tom Krausz
    Producer
    Peter Stockhaus
    Subject
    Drama

    A documentary based on the book Macbeth: Schlafes Mörder by Elke Heidenreich which uses Macbeth to offer a meditation on the nature of evil in the modern world. Narrated by Elke Heidenreich.

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