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  1. Abu Ammar is Coming (2016)

    Director
    Naeem Mohaiemen
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Film

    A photograph showing five men: four stare out of a window, one looks at the camera. The light has a soft glow. The stage is a bombed building. All five men wear military clothes. Abu Ammar was the nom de...

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  2. Living on the Go (2014)

    Director
    Arjun Pandey
    Producer
    Nick Rance; Ambica Kapoor
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Film

    A team of researchers from the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) and the University of Sussex, have joined together to look at the impact of climate change on migration. This short film, based on their...

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  3. 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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  4. Ethical Textiles (2011)

    Subject
    Business studies; Design; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 26 minutes), £45.00

    Filmed in Bangladesh, one of the world’s largest textile manufacturers, this resource explores the social cost of our cheap textiles. With footage filmed inside a number of Bangladeshi textile factories,...

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  5. Issues in Globalisation: How Fair is Fashion? (2011)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 26 minutes), £45.00

    Using the international fashion industry as a case study this resource asks: what is globalisation? Is it an economic or a geographic phenomenon? What are its causes, and who benefits from it? Filmed in...

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  6. Khumi Lives (2010)

    Director
    Ittukgula Changma
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies

    Khumi is the smallest of the indigenous groups in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of southeastern Bangladesh. In today’s age of globalization, changes are occurring in the animist Khumi peoples’ religion,...

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  7. Flooding in Bangladesh (2010)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 38 minutes), £45.00

    Tailor-made to fit UK specifications, this resource was filmed in Bangladesh and emphasises contemporary thinking about hazard events. The personal accounts of those living on Bangladesh’s charland (the...

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  8. Earth in Crisis: Environmental Policy in an International Context (2009)

    Director
    David Humphreys
    Subject
    Environmental science

    This podcast compilation features material from the Open University ‘Earth in Crisis’ course DU311 on climate change. The collection includes eleven video tracks focusing on climate-change-induced...

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  9. Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears (2008)

    Director
    Simon Chambers
    Subject
    Social Studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 63 minutes), £50.00

    East London Muslim girl Shahanara is changing from pink hot pants into a sari to meet her husband at the airport. She has only met him once before, when she was married in a union arranged by her Bangladeshi...

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  10. Safe Custody (1998 Video)

    Director
    Catherine Masud
    Producer
    Catherine Masud; Tareque Masud
    Subject
    Development studies; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale - see TRIUMPH OVER TERROR, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., See: TRIUMPH OVER TERROR

    A study of ‘safe custody’ detention in prisons in Bangladesh. Thousands of people are held, it is claimed, for their own protection, but they often held there for years before their cases are heard....

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