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  1. Trinkets and Beads (1995 Video)

    Director
    Tony Avirgan; Christopher Walker
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Tells what happens when Moi, the leader of the previously isolated Huaorani people in Ecuador, goes to Dallas, Texas, to remonstrate with the Maxus oil company whose drills, flares and leaking pipelines are...

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  2. Gene Hunters (1994 Video)

    Director
    Ian Taylor
    Producer
    Luke Holland
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Scientists are collecting blood samples from the Ahuaco and Asario Indians who live in the remote rain forests of northeern Columbia in order to provide DNA for the Human Genome Biodiversity Project. The aim...

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  3. Haiti’s Cinderellas (1994 Video)

    Director
    Fröde Pederson
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Focuses on the children of Haiti, three-quaters of them girls, who work as domestic slaves in middle-class homes.

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  4. First Nations First (1993 Video)

    Director
    Paolo Ducasse; Damien Rea
    Producer
    Paolo Ducasse; Damien Rea
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Hire (SI) Sale (TVE), Videocassette. VHS. col. 21 min., 2000 hire: £5.00 (+p&p) for 2 weeks 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Made to promote the ‘UN Decade of Indigenous People’, the film looks at the fundamental questions affecting the survival of indigenous peoples, who currently number 300 million, living in over 70...

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  5. Transylvania (1993 Video)

    Director
    Nick Davidson; Ron Orders
    Producer
    Nick Davidson; Ron Orders
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Once known only as the haunt of vampires and Count Dracula, Transylvania emerged in 1989 from 40 years of Communist rule with a legacy of environmanal and human nightmres from the worst excesses of communist...

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  6. 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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  7. Climate Change: Nature’s Revenge (1992 Video)

    Director
    Damien Rea
    Producer
    Damien Rea
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 12 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Examines the environmental costs, in terms of climate change, of the vicious North-South cycle of developing country debt and unsustainable development. Six billion tonnes of carbon dioxide are deposited...

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  8. Developing Stories 1: Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Sorrow (1992 Video)

    Director
    Manjira Datta
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Explores what influence the 1960s green revolution has had on the social structures and ecologies of the developing world.

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  9. Life and Debt (1992 Video)

    Director
    Octavio Bezerra
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 47 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Examines the links betwen Brazil’s debt, the devastation of its rain forest and the kiling of street children in Rio de Janeiro.

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  10. Ujeli: A Child Bride in Nepal (1992 Video)

    Director
    Deependra Gauchan
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    The tragic drama of a 10-year-old Nepalese girl forced into early marriage and child-bearing, despite medical warnings.

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