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  1. Death of the Working Classes (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Hilary Henson
    Subject
    Medical sciences; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Investigates the theories behind statistics which reveal that death has a class bias, with the working classes at greater risk. The NHS has made no difference to the health gap between the social classes and...

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  2. New Green Revolution, A (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Martin Freeth
    Subject
    Agriculture; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    An economist, Keith Griffin (President of Magdalen College, Oxford) looks critically at the new ‘green revolution’ as scientists work in Mexico, Bangladesh and the Philippines to help small farmers grow...

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  3. El Salvador: The Seeds of Liberty (1982 Film)

    Director
    Glenn Silber; Tete Vasconcellos
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Examines the position of the poor of El Salvador through interviews with military, government and church leaders, both in El Salvador and in the United States, and through interviews with the poor...

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  4. Other Kenya, The (1980 Video)

    Producer
    Martin Freeth
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    REFERENCE ONLY (Concord) Sale (BBC), Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the contrasts in Kenya between the tourist image and the impoverished lives of the country’s inhabitants. A wealthy minority own much of the countryside and grow cash crops to sell to the...

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  5. Simplemente Jenny (1979 Film)

    Director
    Helena Solberg-Ladd
    Subject
    Development studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    About women in Latin America and the cultural values that shape their lives - image and reality - the models of society and the facts of poverty and violence. Focuses on three adolescent girls in a...

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  6. Hard Times (1970 Film)

    Director
    Richard Broad
    Producer
    Ian Martin
    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Discusses poverty in Britain in the 1970s. Old age pensioners, unsupported mothers and disabled people describe their difficulties.

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  7. St Anne’s (1969 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A decayed inner area of Nottingham, where a combination of low wages and depressing surroundings produces apathy and depression. Examines the lives of one or two families there, as well as their environment...

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  8. Newcomers, The (1963)

    Director
    George C Stoney
    Subject
    Anthropology; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 30 minutes), $165.00

    The NEWCOMERS is a film about economically threatened Appalachian people in transition. Made in 1963, the documentary deals with issues of immigration and migration and the importance of learning how to live...

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  9. Plow That Broke the Plains, The (1936 Video)

    Director
    Pare Lorentz
    Subject
    Agriculture; History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The first US Federal Government documentary intended to be shown publicly. This is a graphic description of the Dust Bowl in the Great Plains. Indicates steps already taken by the New Deal agencies to tackle...

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  10. Land Without Bread (1932 Film)

    aka: Hurdes, Las

    Director
    Luis Buñuel
    Producer
    Ramón Acín
    Subject
    Geography; Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A bleak study of the Hurandos, inhabitants of a poor region near Salamanca, in north-east Spain. Living hopelessly in a barren wasteland, ridden with disease, superstition and ignorance, they let their...

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