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  1. Afghanistan: The Great Game (2013)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £12.99

    Rory Stewart tells the story of foreign intervention in Afghanistan from the 19th century to the present day. In part 1, Stewart looks at how control of Afghanistan was seen by Victorian Britain as key to...

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  2. Leaving Greece (2013)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 79 minutes), £50.00

    A film about friendship and the European Union refugee policy, which tells the personal story of three Afghan refugees living in Greece. When entering the EU for the first time, a refugee must submit an...

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  3. Boy Mir, The: Ten Years in Afghanistan (2012)

    Director
    Phil Grabsky
    Producer
    Amanda Wilkie; Phil Grabsky
    Subject
    Anthropology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

    Phil Grabsky’s documentary was filmed over the course of ten years and follows the life of an Afghani boy, Mir, growing up in the years after the fall of the Taliban in 2002. The film traces his journey...

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  4. Armadillo (2011)

    Director
    Janus Metz
    Subject
    Military Science; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £12.99

    Over the course of the soldiers’ six-month tour of duty, Metz reveals how the personalities of the young soldiers are transformed by the experience of fighting in a war, and how the adrenaline rush that...

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  5. Afghan Star (2010)

    Subject
    Media studies; Music; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £6.99

    When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 1996, among their many edicts was banning popular music, considering it a corrupting and sacrilegious influence. Though Taliban was swept from power in 2001,...

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  6. Restrepo (2010)

    Director
    Sebastian Junger; Tim Hetherington
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 93 minutes), £6.99

    Restrepo focuses on the deployment of a US platoon in Afghanistan’s hostile Korengal Valley . Over the course of 15 months, the two filmmakers Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger (author of ‘The...

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  7. Taxi to the Darkside (2008)

    Director
    Alex Gibney
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 106 minutes), £19.99

    This in-depth look at the mistreatment prisoners of the US in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, focuses on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan, who was tortured and killed in 2002. The film uses...

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  8. Power of Nightmares, The (3 Parts) (2007)

    Director
    Adam Curtis
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    DVD (3 x 60 minutes)

    Three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain, with particular reference to the American Neoconservatives and radical Islamists.

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  9. 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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  10. Beyond the Frame: Alternative Perspectives on the War on Terrorism (2003)

    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 120 minutes), $95.00

    Since the 11 September attacks, and throughout the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the mainstream media in the US have presented a restricted range of views, largely confined to the opinions of political elites...

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