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  1. Abraham and Sarah (2017)

    Director
    Ivo Strecker
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), £50.00

    In the highlands of Tigray, northern Ethiopia, on the edge of the escarpment that descends steeply to the Danakil dessert, Hagos Mashisho and Desta Gidey have toiled and struggled for years to turn the...

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  2. Sleep Furiously (2009)

    Director
    Gideon Koppel
    Subject
    Anthropology; Geography; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £6.00

    A documentary set in Trefeurig, a hill-farming community in mid Wales. It is a landscape that is changing rapidly as small-scale agriculture, which characterised the area, is disappearing and the last...

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  3. Bygones: The Horsemen (1998)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 40 minutes), £14.95

    A BYGONES special produced by Anglia Television in 1975, recalling the age before the tractor when farm work revolved around the horses. Oral historian George Ewart recognised that as this generation of...

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  4. Bygones: The Harvest (1998)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 40 minutes), £14.95

    A BYGONES Special by Anglia Television, recording the memories of a group of retired farm workers in 1975, memories going back to the turn of the century. The programme goes through the key operations:...

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  5. Plough and the Hoe, The. Part 2: Village Life in Bihar (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Discusses the violence of relations between landlords and farm workers in the Begusarai district of Bihar, a backward and feudal area where low pay, landlessness and debt bondage are still common among...

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  6. Sakaltutan: A Time of Change (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Shot in a small village in Asiatic Turkey, the film shows how 30 years of economic change have transformed the life of the people. Incomes of farmers have risen and many now have cars and television sets....

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  7. Why we Boycott (1974 Film)

    Director
    Glen Pearcy
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Chronicles the struggle by migrant workers on grape farms in southern California for better pay and conditions. In particular, shows how the United Farm Workers Union, aided by white liberals and church...

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  8. Harvest of Shame (1962 Film)

    Producer
    David Lowe
    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A report revealing the terrible conditions suffered by many thousands of migratory workers who harvest the crops in the richest country in the world.

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  9. Chang (1927 Video)

    Director
    Merian C Cooper; Ernest B Schoedsack
    Producer
    Merian C Cooper; Ernest B Schoedsack
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC only). b&w. 67 min., 1997 sale: US$59.95 (+p&p)

    A documentary film about a rice farmer and his family who live on the edge of the jungle in Siam and struggle for survival against numerous wild animals including bears, tigers and leopards. Includes footage...

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  10. Women’s Land Army, The (1917 Film)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A Women’s Land Army recruitment film. It compares unfavourably the idle ways of the ‘ladies of leisure’ with the patriotic endeavour of the WLA whose activities were helping to counter the U-boats’...

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