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  1. Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)

    Director
    Göran Hugo Ollson
    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 100 minutes), $24.98

    The BLACK POWER MIXTAPE examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the USA from 1967 to 1975, using recently discovered 16mm footage filmed by Swedish journalists and found lying in the cellar of...

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  2. Prohibition (2011)

    Director
    Ken Burns; Lynn Novick
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 360 minutes), $34.99

    Three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the...

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  3. Waiting for "Superman" (2011)

    Director
    Davis Guggenheim
    Producer
    Lesley Chilcott
    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 111 mins), $8.78

    Documentary examining different aspects of the American public education system. Tenure and how the system attempts to reprimand poorly performing teachers is examined. Teaching standards are criticised as...

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  4. Artland: USA 2 (2011)

    Director
    Seb Grant; Tim Knight
    Producer
    John Wyver; Sebastian Grant
    Subject
    Architecture; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 480 mins), £34.99

    Series 2. An art road movie presented by Charlie Luxton and Mame McCutchin as they drive a 35-foot RV across the United States. Journeying from San Diego, California to Portland, Maine, they visit artists...

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  5. Catching Salinger (2010)

    Director
    Frédéric Beigbeder
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 53 minutes), $19.99

    With the publication in 1951 of his best-selling book, "Catcher in the Rye," Jerome David Salinger became one of the fundamental American writers of the Twentieth Century. For reasons that still remain...

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  6. Plunder: The Crime of Our Time (2010)

    Director
    Daniel Schechter
    Subject
    Economics; Finance & Accounting; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 59 minutes), $250.00

    Exposing the forces responsible for the loss of trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, massive foreclosures and the disappearance of retirement funds, this film investigates the unregulated fraud and theft...

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  7. Fight Against Fanaticism: Us Anti-Repression Films (2010)

    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 124 minutes), $19.95

    Five films fighting for freedom of dissent against bigoted oppression. Contents: DESPOTISM (1946, 11:00) Extraordinary film that seeks to explain how societies can be placed upon a graduated scale...

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  8. Not Just a Game: Power, Politics & American Sports (2010)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies; Sports science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $250.00

    A powerful new documentary based on the book by Dave Zirin, The People’s History of Sports, in which he argues that far from providing merely escapist entertainment, American sports have long been at the...

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  9. U.S. Government - How It Works (6 Parts) (2010)

    Subject
    History; Law; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 6 x 26 minutes), £59.00 each part;£299.00 series

    This six-part series introduces key aspects of U.S. government and public policy. Using a combination of graphics, video footage and interviews with legal and political scholars, each episode exploress a...

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  10. Political Advertisement VII: 1952 - 2008 (2010)

    Director
    Muntadas; Marshall Reese
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 75 minutes), $500.00

    This fascinating anthology, updated to include advertisements from the 2008 presidential campaign, documents the selling of the American presidency since the 1950s, from Eisenhower to Obama. In this...

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