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  1. Managing the Dorset Coast (2012)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 41 minutes), £49.00

    How is it possible to balance the needs of the 25,000 visitors who descend on Studland Bay on a busy day, while simultaneously meeting the requirements of Europe’s largest oil field and protect the...

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  2. Unity Through Culture (2011)

    Director
    Christian Suhr; Ton Otto
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

    Soanin Killangit is determined to unite the people and attract international tourism through the revival of culture on Baluan Island, Manus, Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific. He organises the largest...

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  3. Blackpool: The Development of a Tourist Destination (2010)

    Subject
    Business studies; Travel & tourism
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 26 minutes), £39.00

    This film compares the varying fortunes of one of Britain’s most iconic tourist destinations with those of Tobago in the Caribbean. The film explores Blackpool before the railway age, Blackpool in its...

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  4. Return to the Brouck, The Fenland, Forty Years on (2010)

    Director
    Colette Piault
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £20.00

    In 1970, documentary filmmaker Colette Piault and her colleagues produced a film on the lives of a group of young people living in the Brouck (the Audomarois Fenland) area of Northern France. Forty years...

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  5. Water Crisis II: Cyprus, China, Spain (2009)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 41 minutes), £97.00

    Three films highlight water shortages across the world. Film 1: Inner Mongolia has long been one of China’s driest regions; Film 2: In Spain the government is trying to solve its shortage by pumping water...

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  6. British Transport Films Collection Vol. 6: The Art of Travel (2007)

    Subject
    Geography; History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 250 minutes), £19.99

    The sixth in the series of double DVD box sets of films from the BRITISH TRANSPORT FILMS COLLECTION. Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948 the British Transport Commission set up its own...

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  7. Tradition Vs Tourism in Ladakh (2007)

    Subject
    Geography; Travel & tourism

    A video excerpt from a film by Dan Schreiber exploring the tension between tradition and tourism in a Ladakh, a remote region of Northern India. Originally featured as part of the US television programme...

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Kz (2006)

    aka: Remembering Evil: Questions and Responses

    Director
    Rex Bloomstein
    Subject
    Psychology; Travel & tourism
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 98 minutes), £15.99 (normal version) £120 (educational version)

    British documentary looking at the strange, disquieting phenomenon of ‘Holocaust tourism’ - specifically, at the procession of guides and visitors to the former Nazi concentration camp in the pretty...

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