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  1. Race is a Four Letter Word (2011)

    Director
    Sobaz Benjamin
    Subject
    Psychology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 56 minutes), £29.00

    Directed by Sobaz Benjamin, who was brought up in England and moved to Grenada before settling in Canada. He highlights some conflicts around race, heroically exposing himself in the process: a black man who...

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  2. Wee Willie Macbeth (2011 Film)

    Director
    Paul Lenart

    Animation. A stop-motion adaptation of Macbeth directed and animated by Paul Lenart and produced withe assistance of the National Film Board of Canada’s FAP programme. No further details known (7/2011).

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  3. Staying Real (2011)

    Subject
    Media studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £29.00

    Young people discuss the adverse effects of the sexual stereotypes which bombard them. They talk about how hard it is to develop their own personality and to make friends when they don’t conform to media...

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  4. Nollywood Babylon (2010)

    Director
    Ben Addelman; Samir Mallal
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 74 minutes), $ Canadian 59.95

    Nigeria’s film industry, Nollywood, is the third largest in the world—an unstoppable economic and cultural force that has taken the continent by storm and is now bursting beyond the borders of Africa....

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  5. Not Just a Bad Day: Living with Bipolar Disorder (2010)

    Subject
    Mental Health and Counselling; Psychiatry
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £40.00

    This documentary explores the lives of four people living under the shadow of one of the most commonly misunderstood and diagnosed mental illnesses, bipolar disorder. The young mother, the party boy, the...

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  6. Club Native (2009)

    Director
    Tracey Deer
    Subject
    Anthropology; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 78 minutes), $295.00 (institutional rate);

    In Kahnawake, the hometown of Mohawk director Tracey Deer (Mohawk Girls), there are two unspoken rules: Don’t marry a non-Native, and never, ever have a child with a non-Native. In a community where tribal...

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  7. Paris 1919 (2009)

    Director
    Paul Cowan
    Producer
    Gerry Flahive; Paul Sadoun
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 95 minutes), $89.95

    Paul Cowan’s feature-length documentary combines archival footage and dramatic re-enactments to take viewers inside the peace talks that followed World War I. Inspired by Margaret MacMillan’s book Paris...

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  8. Passage (2009)

    Director
    John Walker
    Subject
    Geography; History
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 113 minutes), $99.00

    The news shook the English-speaking world. Celebrated British explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew perished in the Arctic during an ill-fated attempt to discover the Northwest Passage. More shocking, they...

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  9. Time There was, A: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony (2009)

    Director
    Donald McWilliams
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 87 minutes), $59.95

    Under British rule, white settlers in Kenya claimed the land of hills and valleys, and all its gifts, but by the 1950s they could no longer stem the tide of long-simmering resentment by the colonised Kikuyu...

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  10. Rip: A Remix Manifesto (2009)

    Director
    Brett Gaylor
    Subject
    Law; Media studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £14.99

    Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The...

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