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  1. Xy Chelsea (2019)

    Director
    Tim Travers Hawkins
    Subject
    American Studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes)

    Documentary about ex-soldier whistleblower and trans woman Chelsea Manning, who disclosed over 750,000 documents to Wikileaks. She was supposed to spend most of the rest of her life behind bars in an...

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  2. Final Year, The (2018)

    Director
    George Barker
    Subject
    American Studies; Film studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £7.99

    This documentary offers an insight into the inner workings of the Obama Administration as they were preparing to leave power after eight years. The film revolves around a foreign policy team assembled by...

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  3. Mayo Clinic, The: Faith, Hope and Science (2018)

    Director
    Ken Burns
    Subject
    History; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 116 minutes), $19.99

    In the wake of a deadly tornado in rural Minnesota in 1883, Doctor Mayo and his two sons enlisted the help of a group of Catholic nuns to care for the wounded. This documentary tells the story of the...

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  4. Talk: Race in America, The (2017)

    aka: The Talk: Race in America

    Director
    Sam Pollard
    Subject
    American Studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £16.99

    A conversation between parents of colour and their children about how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police is becoming increasingly common in homes and communities across the USA. In many...

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  5. Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, The (2017)

    Director
    Ken Burns; Lynn Novick
    Subject
    American Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1080 minutes), £69.95

    This 18-hour documentary offers an in-depth analysis of one of the most divisive and controversial events in American history: the Vietnam War. Episodes include: 1-Déjà vu (1858-1961): After a century of...

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  6. American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs (2017)

    Director
    Yale Strom
    Subject
    American Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 97 minutes), $295.00

    Bernie Sanders has inspired a generation - but who inspired him? Most people in America do not know that the contemporary political movement to address income inequality began over 100 years ago with Eugene...

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  7. Quest (2017)

    Director
    Jonathan Olshefski
    Subject
    American Studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 105 minutes), $295.00

    Filmed with vérité intimacy over the course of nearly a decade, Quest is the portrait of the Rainey family living in North Philadelphia. Beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency, Quest Rainey and his...

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  8. Coming War on China, The (2016)

    Director
    John Pilger
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 130 minutes), £17.99

    John Pilger directs this documentary about a potential nuclear war between the United States of America and China. Pilger makes the case that, though the media are unlikely to tell you so, these two rival...

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  9. Howard Zinn’s Emma (2016)

    Director
    Bruce Grund
    Producer
    Bruce Grund
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 104 minutes), $350.00

    Filmed performance of Howard Zinn’s stage play ‘Emma’, a dramatisation of the life of Emma Goldman, the anarchist, feminist, and free-spirited thinker who was exiled from the United States because of...

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  10. Divide, The (2015)

    Director
    Katherine Round
    Subject
    Economics; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 74 minutes), £8.99

    The Divide tells the story of 7 individuals striving for a better life in the modern day US and UK, where the top 0.1% owns as much wealth as the bottom 90%. By plotting these tales together, the film...

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