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Manenberg (2010)

Director

Karen Waltorp; Christian Vium

Subject

Anthropology; Social sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 54 minutes), £50.00

MANENBERG is the debut documentary film by directors and anthropologists Karen Waltorp and Christian Vium, who have lived and done extensive research in Manenberg a suburb outside Cape Town - since 2005. The...

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Milking the Rhino (2009)

Director

David E Simpson

Subject

Anthropology; Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 83 minutes), $29.95

MILKING THE RHINO examines the deepening conflict between humans and animals in an ever-shrinking world. It is the first major documentary to explore wildlife conservation from the perspective of people who...

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Peter Beard: Scrapbooks from Africa and Beyond (2009)

Director

Jean-Claude Luyat; Guillaume Bonn

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £19.99

A film about the adventure photographer Peter Beard, covering all aspects of his life, professional career, and personal adventures beginning in the 1960s through to the 1990s.Iconic photographs of Beard’s...

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Cuba, An African Odyssey (2008)

aka: Cuba, Une Odyssee Africaine

Director

Jihan El-Tahri

Subject

Development studies; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 190 minutes), £24.99

Using archive footage and personal accounts, this film tells the story of the Cold War through the prism of its least known theatre: Africa. From 1961 to 1991, this continent was the battleground for a war...

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Ou Lecture 2008: The Impact of China on Development (2008)

Subject

Development studies; Economics

Professor Raphael Kaplinsky explores the impact on international development of the rise of the Asian drivers in general - and China in particular - and what implications this has for development strategy...

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General Idi Amin Dada (Autoportrait) (2007)

Director

Barbet Schroeder

Subject

Development studies; Politics & government; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

A rare chance to see the real Idi Amin in this extraordinary documentary made with the full support and participation of the dictator himself. Through his anti-Semitic rages, fetish for military power, and...

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Chicken Madness (2007)

Director

Marcello Faraggi

Subject

Development studies; Economics; Geography

How Europe’s exports harm Africa - a film on globalisation, drawing on the example of exporting surplus European chicken to Cameroon. (29 minutes). in a second programme CHICKEN MADNESS - STUDIO DISCUSSION...

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Suspect Neutrality (2007)

Director

Eziola Zola Okpara

Producer

Wong Chun Han; Jax Lin

Subject

Psychology

Following the publication of a controversial research paper "Mind the Gap... in Intelligence: Re-examining the Relationship between Inequality and Health", by Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa, Reader in Management and...

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Saving Africa’s National Treasures (2007)

Subject

Anthropology

Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey provides an overview to his life and work in this 2007 interview conducted for the Academy of Achievement.

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Living with Corruption (2007)

aka: Dispatches: How to Get Ahead in Africa

Subject

Development studies; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £100.00

Journalist Sorious Samara goes undercover to investigate corruption in Africa. The programme provides a sober portrait of how modern politics works in many African nations, with most of the population living...

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