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  1. Eighties, The (2017)

    Producer
    Tom Hanks; Gary Goetzman; Mark Herzog
    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 344 minutes), £12.24

    Produced by Emmy-award winning Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, ‘The Eighties’ is the third series in the acclaimed documentary strand chronicling American society and popular culture in the...

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  2. Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016)

    Producer
    Fenton Bailey; Randy Barbato
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (108 minutes)

    Feature length film about controversial American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, featuring previously unreleased interviews with Mapplethorpe himself as well as family, friends and lovers.

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  3. 2,4-Dinitrohenol (2015)

    Subject
    Chemistry; Medical sciences

    Podcast from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s online journal Chemistry World. Simon Cotton investigates 2,4-dinitrophal, an explosive nitro-compound. In the early 1930s, a team of researchers at Stanford...

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  4. How to Survive a Plague (2014)

    Director
    David France
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £12.99

    Filmmaker David France tracks the efforts made by activist groups ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) to convince the government and the pharmaceutical industry to speed up human trials of experimental...

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  5. Fire in the Blood (2014)

    Director
    Dylan Gray
    Subject
    Medical sciences; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £6.98

    FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south after 1996,...

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  6. Zimbabwe’s Child Exodus (2011)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Social welfare

    Report by Zimbabwean journalist Stanley Kwenda into the exodus over the past decade of tens of thousands of Zimbabwean children across the border into South Africa. Kwenda himself fled Zimbabwe in 2010 when...

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  7. AIDS: Evolution of an Epidemic (2007)

    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 240 minutes), free

    Recording of a lecture from HHMI’s 2007 Holiday Lectures on Science. Can AIDS be cured? Why has it been so hard to develop a vaccine against HIV? How are new medicines revolutionizing AIDS treatment? In...

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  8. History of Motion Pictures - Film Research and Learning (2005)

    Subject
    Education; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 144 minutes), £20.99

    A collection of short films made between 1946 and 1963 that demonstrate the benefit of documentary films in educating the people of the United States. These films opened the doors to a newer and better...

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  9. Life Cycle: A Story of AIDS in Malawi (2003)

    Director
    Doug Karr; Sierra Bellows
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 57 minutes), $219.00 [Institutional rate]

    This film explores the themes of sex, witchcraft, poverty, death and religion in relation to AIDS. Shot over eight months and encompassing both the depth and breadth of a culture under siege, LIFE CYCLES...

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  10. Open Secret 1 (2000 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 2000 sale: £35.00 (inclusive)

    Video-based pack describing how the people, political leaders and government agencies of Uganda have breached the wall of silence surrounding the HIV epidemic to achieve greater openness about HIV/AIDS than...

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