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  1. Trapped in the City of a Thousand Mountains (2019)

    Director
    David Verbeek
    Subject
    Music; Social Studies

    Short documentary. A new phenomenon has taken the internet by storm: Chinese rap. But behind its skyrocketing popularity, there is a struggle for freedom of speech. Rappers try to figure out what they can...

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  2. Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus (2014)

    Director
    Madeleine Sackler
    Subject
    Drama; Politics & government

    Documentary about the Belarus Free Theatre, a radical troupe whose underground theatre performances features critical examinations of subjects banned by the government, including topics such as sexual...

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  3. What we Learned from 5 Million Books (2011)

    Subject
    Social Studies; Technology

    The research in this 14-minute video was made possible by Google’s book digitization efforts. Researchers Jean-Baptiste Michel and Erez Lieberman Aiden show in a light-hearted way that reading isn’t the...

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  4. Saddam’s Road to Hell (2006)

    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    DVD

    Filmmaker Gwynne Roberts and a team of investigators led by Dr Mohammed Ihsan, Kurdistan’s Human Rights Minister, set off in an armoured convey across postwar Iraq to find out what happened to 8,000...

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  5. Polis Lecture: Sir Christopher Meyer (2006)

    Director
    Sumanth Inukonda
    Subject
    Media studies

    Highlights of a lecture given at the London School of Economics on Monday November 13th 2006 by Sir Christopher Meyer, Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission and former UK Ambassador to the USA, on...

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  6. Our Shakespeare Reading Club: Dickinson Reading Antony and Cleopatra and Othello (Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Shakespeare; Women’s studies

    Video recording of a live seminar held online over Zoom starting with a half hour presentation by Páraic Finnerty (University of Portsmouth) on American poet Emily Dickinson’s engagement with...

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  7. Shostakovich on Trial: From Lady Macbeth to the Fifth Symphony (Video)

    Subject
    Music; Shakespeare

    Recording of an illustrated lecture by Professor Marina Frolova-Walker FBA (Clare College, Cambridge) on the the censure of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and...

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