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  1. Whicker’s World Volume 3 (2013)

    Subject
    Media studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 600 minutes), £29.99

    The third volume in the series presents a diverse and memorable selection of films made between 1968 and 1980, ranging in topic from the cryonics industry to the Gay Liberation movement in America; from the...

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  2. Placing the Author: Wordsworth, De Quincey and Dove Cottage/ The Poets of Harlem (2012)

    Subject
    Geography; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £12.00

    This video, taken from the Open University’s A230 Reading and Studying module, looks at how landscapes and communities have influenced some of our most famous poetry. From William Wordsworth’s Daffodils...

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  3. Vortex - Life in One of the Poorest Village in Hungary (2012)

    Subject
    Geography; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 76 minutes), £41.99

    Filmed over six months, in Hungarian with English subtitles, this documentary follows three families in the village of Told, one of the poorest villages in Hungary. Isolation, poverty and discrimination...

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  4. Shed Your Tears and Walk Away (2011)

    Director
    Jez Lewis
    Producer
    Nicholas Broomfield
    Subject
    Social Studies; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £9.00

    Filmmaker Jez Lewis grew up in the small town of Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire. Hebden Bridge has a reputation as a home to artists and is a popular destination for tourists with a bohemian outlook, but Lewis...

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  5. Micro Debt, The (2011)

    Director
    Tom Heinemann
    Subject
    Development studies; Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 57 minutes), 28 euros

    A critical investigation into the dark side of microcredit, for decades hailed as the key to eradicating poverty in developing countries. However, interest rates from 30 to 200% often make it impossible to...

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  6. Century of the City Box Set (2011)

    Director
    Marije Meerman; Bregtje van der Haak; Rob Schröder
    Subject
    Architecture; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 205 minutes), 25.95 euros

    The four DVDs in this box set are part of the cross-media festival Centuries of the City that the VPRO held in association with the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam in September/October 2009 on...

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  7. Andrew Marr’s Megacities (2011)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £17.99

    For the first time in history, more people live in cities than the countryside. Across the globe, there are 21 cities with more than 10 million people, and these numbers are set to increase.In this...

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  8. Megacities (2011)

    Director
    Michael Glawogger
    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

    This documentary explores the resourcefulness and imagination of people living in some of the world’s most overpopulated cities: Bombay, New York, Moscow and Mexico City.The film is a tale in twelve...

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  9. Cities on Speed Series (Shanghai, Cairo, Mumbai, Bogota) (2011)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (4 x 60 minutes), $995.00 (series) $295.00 (each)

    Soon more than 550 cities worldwide will have a population of more than one million. In 2030 eighty percent of the world’s population will live in cities. Megacities have traditionally been economic and...

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  10. Life in a Day (2011)

    Director
    Kevin Macdonald
    Producer
    Ridley Scott
    Subject
    Geography; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

    A historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film, compiled from footage shot on the same day by anyone from around the world. The aim is to document a single day on earth through a...

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