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  1. American Visions (8 Parts) (1996 Video)

    Director
    John Bush; Julia Cave; James Kent; Christopher Spencer; David Willcock
    Producer
    Julia Cave; James Kent; Christopher Spencer; David Willcock
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 60 min., 1997 sale: £ (+VAT +p&p) series

    Art historian and critic Robert Hughes presents a history of America through his art and archecture. He travels around the country visiting important buildings and monuments, recordding the landscape that...

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  2. Clayoquot Sound: The Final Cut? (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Clayoquot Sound is an area of temperate rain forest on Vancouver Island off the west coast of British Columbia and known as a biodiversity hotspot. The high percentage of the forest that has been logged, the...

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  3. Canada Remembers (1995 Video)

    Director
    Terence Macartney-Filgate
    Producer
    Kent Martin
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 53, 54, 49 min.

    Three part documentary which looks at the key steps leading to the Allied Victory of the Second World War. Contains images from the Natinal Film Board of Canada’s newsreel and stock shot libraries and...

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  4. Marco Polo, The: Queen of the Seas (1995 Video)

    Director
    Roger Hart
    Producer
    Sam Grana
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min.

    Shows the construction of a replica of the ‘Marco Polo’, which sailed between Liverpool, England and Melbourne during the latter half of the 19th century carrying immigrants to Australia, and tells the...

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  5. Standing Alone (1994 Video)

    Director
    Colin Low
    Producer
    Tom Daly
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min.

    An autobiographical study of 25 years of the life of Pete Standing Alone, a Blood Indian, from his early days as an oil-rig roughneck, rodeo rider and cowboy, to the present as an Indian concerned with...

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  6. Blood and Belonging (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Colin Thomas
    Subject
    Politics & government; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 50 min., 2004 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p) per episode or £750.00 the series

    Michael Ignatieff examines nationalism in the modern world.

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  7. Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993 Video)

    Director
    Alanis Obomsawin
    Producer
    Wolf Koenig; Alanis Obomsawin
    Subject
    Anthropology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 119 min.

    The native film-maker Alanis Obomsawin’s account of the confrontation between the Mohawk Indians and the police and Canadian army in the summer and autumn of 1990, placing it in the larger context of the...

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  8. Acts of Defiance (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Mark Zannis
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 104 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Examines the bloody confrontation that erupted in Canada in 1991, following Quebec government plans to confiscate Mohawk territory.

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  9. Hunters and Bombers (1991 Video)

    Director
    Hugh Brody; Nigel Markham
    Producer
    Alan Hayling; Rex Tasker
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 53 min.

    The hunters are the Innu people and the bombers are the air forces of several NATO countries, which conduct low-level flights over Innu hunting terrain. The impact of the jets is hotly debated by peace...

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  10. No Place to Hide (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Eleanor Morris
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Filmed in Sudbury, Ontario, this programme illustrates the effects of mineral extraction and processing on the environment. The example used is nickel, and contrasts are drawn between two periods. In the...

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