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  1. Art of Regret, The (2008)

    Director
    Judith MacDougall
    Subject
    Anthropology; Art; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

    Photography is known in China as the "Art of Regret". In the rapidly changing city of Kunming, people are ambivalent about whether they want photography to be a medium of preservation and evidence, or of...

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  2. World’s Lost Tribes (2008)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £29.99

    Six-part documentary series in which extreme travellers Mark Anstice and Olly Steed venture into the jungles of West Papua to live with the Kombai tribe, who were discovered only 25 years ago. Largely cut...

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  3. Salesman (2007)

    Director
    Albert Maysles; David Maysles
    Subject
    Business studies; Psychology; Religious studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £19.99

    Honoured by the Library of Congress as one of the 25 best American films ever made, SALESMAN is a fascinating, non-narrated account of four Boston bible sellers, selling lavish bibles to low income families....

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  4. Louie, Me and Hepatitis C (2007)

    Director
    Gemma Peppe
    Subject
    Health Education; Medical sciences; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £20.00

    When Gemma Peppe needed a subject for her MA in documentary research, she decided to use her own battle with the potentially fatal liver condition hepatitis C. She hoped it would be an opportunity to raise...

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  5. First Contact (2007)

    Director
    Mark Anstice
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195.00

    The dense lowland swamps of New Guinea and the outer reaches of the Amazon Basin are home to the last groups of ‘uncontacted’ hunter-gatherer tribes still in existence. They are the few human beings that...

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  6. Art of Travel, The (2006)

    Director
    Thomas Whelan; Brian LaBelle
    Subject
    Sociology; Travel & tourism
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (60 minutes), £19.99

    Based on the book of the same name, Alain de Botton investigates why people go on holiday as he considers the philosophical issues surrounding our experiences of travel and vacations. Taking four separate...

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  7. Sisters-In-Law (2006)

    aka: Sisters in Law

    Director
    Kim Longinotto; Florence Ayisi
    Subject
    Anthropology; Law
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, DVD (106 minutes), £6.00 (V)

    Six year old Manka has run away from home, fleeing her abusive aunt. Sonita has daringly accused her neighbour of rape. Amina has decided to end her brutal marriage by taking her husband to court. Set in...

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  8. Tingvong: A Lepcha Village in Sikkim (2006)

    Director
    Dawa T Lepcha
    Subject
    Agriculture; Anthropology; Development studies; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

    Ilustrates the changes the Lepcha of the Dzongu reserve, North Sikkim, have been through in the last 60 years. From the 1940s, the Lepcha of Tingvong village gradually abandoned hunting, gathering and the...

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  9. Three Films from Eastern Indonesia (2006)

    Director
    James J Fox; Patsy Asch; Timothy Asch
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £50.00

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  10. Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, The (2006)

    Director
    Phil Grabsky
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 120 minutes), £19.99

    A portrait of everyday life in post-invasion Afghanistan, centered around an eight-year-old boy and his family who live in extreme poverty in caves among the ruins of the ‘Buddhas of Bamiyan’, one of the...

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