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Brink, The (2019)

Director

Alison Klayman

Subject

American Studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes)

Documentary following the self-appointed leader of the populist movement, Steve Bannon, from the 2018 mid-term elections in the States to the 2019 European Parliamentary elections as he peddles his...

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Inconvenient Sequel, An (2017)

aka: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

Director

Bonni Cohen; Jon Shenk

Subject

Environmental science; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 93 minutes), £6.99

Eleven years after the release of An Inconvenient Truth, the US Vice President Al Gore is continuing his fight against climate change. The threat has intensified, and President Trump’s views- as voiced in...

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Citizenfour (2015)

Director

Laura Poitras

Subject

Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 114 mins.), £15.99

In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted emails from someone...

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9/11 Trilogy (2015)

Director

Laura Poitras

Subject

Arabic studies; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 250 minutes), £9.99

Three feature documentaries from documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras: CITIZENFOUR (2014) about Edward Snowden and the National Security Agency, THE OATH (2010) reporting on Guantanamo Bay, and MY COUNTRY, MY...

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Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (2015)

Director

Pratibha Parmar

Subject

History; Literature; Social Studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 84 minutes), $395

Feature film documentary. Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple. Her early life unfolded in the midst of...

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Divide et Impera (Divide and Rule) (2015)

Director

Scott Noble

Subject

History; Politics & government; Social Studies

The series examines early American history through an examination of class. Part 1 DIVIDE ET IMPERA includes sections on Mother Jones, the American Constitution; the Civil War draft riots; Reconstruction;...

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Brand New You: Makeover Television and the American Dream (2015)

Director

Katherine Sender

Subject

Broadcasting; Media studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 53 minutes), $275

What do popular television makeover programmes tell us about about what a good life looks like in contemporary America? Based on Katherine Sender’s book The Makeover the film examines this question against...

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Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)

Subject

Economics; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 41 minutes), $350.00

Documentary. What distinguishing feature do the world’s healthiest and happiest societies have in common? According to acclaimed author Richard Wilkinson, the reason is that they have far less income...

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Garwin (2014)

Director

Richard Breyer; Anand Kamalakar

Subject

Physics; Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 67 mins), $89

GARWIN chronicles the life and work of physicist Dr. Richard Garwin, who served as an advisor to every president since Eisenhower. Given primary focus are his career in government research and advising. The...

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1964 (2014)

Subject

American Studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £14.99

Based on the book ‘The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964’, by award-winning journalist Jon Margolis, this film follows some of the most prominent figures of the time (including Lyndon B Johnson, Barry...

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