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  1. Of Fathers and Sons (2018)

    Director
    Talal Derki
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 102 minutes), $22.46

    Director Talal Derki returns to his Syrian homeland and gains the trust of a radical Islamist family. His camera focuses primarily on the children, providing a rare insight into what it means to grow up with...

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  2. Path of Blood (2018)

    Director
    Jonathan Hacker
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 91 minutes), £18.29

    Drawn from a hoard of jihadi home-movie footage that was captured by Saudi security services, PATH OF BLOOD is the story of Muslim terrorists targeting Muslim civilians and brought to justice by Muslim...

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  3. City of Ghosts (2017)

    Director
    Matthew Heineman
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £9.99

    Documentary about a group of citizen journalists, who determined to tell the truth about life under Isis, form the Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently digital collective. Using their smartphones, the group...

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  4. Europe’s Border Crisis: The Long Road (2016)

    Producer
    Andy Bell; Patrick Barne
    Subject
    Politics & government; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195

    As Europe witnesses the movement of people across its borders, Panorama reporter John Sweeney joins thousands making the journey from the Greek island of Kos to the Austrian border with Hungary. He meets...

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  5. Jim: The James Foley Story (2016)

    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 113 minutes), £9.99

    Documentary about the life and death of journalist James Foley who was kidnapped by ISIA in Syria in 2012 while reporting on the plight of civilians caught up in the war.

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  6. Syria: The Assad’s Twilight (2011)

    Director
    Vicent de Cointet; Christophe Ayad
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), $348

    A portrait of the Assad regime, from its origins to 2011. During the 1970s, Bashar’s father, Hafez al-Assad, turned Syria into one of the world’s most secretive and repressive dictatorships. In 1982, he...

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  7. Syria: Chess Match at the Borders (2008)

    Director
    Amal Hamelin des Essarts
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), $348

    Syria is a single-party dictatorship country, ruled since 1970 by Hafez al-Assad and, following his death in 2000, by his son Bashar. Despite the lack of any significant oil reserves, this nation is both a...

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  8. Hamoukar: Redrawing the Map of the World’s Earliest Cities (2007)

    Subject
    Archaeology

    Clemens Reichel, Research Associate at the Oriental Institute, explains the importance of the groundbreaking archaeological expedition he co-directed at Hamoukar in Northern Syria. Until recently,...

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  9. Little Waterfall (2003)

    Director
    Joshka Wessels
    Subject
    Anthropology; Arabic studies; Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 52 minutes), £50.00

    Shallalah Saghirah ('Little Waterfall’) is a small village of about twenty households located in the Khanasser valley, in north Syria. The village has no electricity and still uses an ancient system, known...

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  10. Holy War of Words (1990 Video)

    Director
    George Stamkoski
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Examines some of the literature of change and dissent in the Arab world today. Arab writers discuss censorship and repression.

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