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  1. Does Corporate Funding Corrupt Science? (2012)

    Subject
    Science

    Video recording of a panel discussion held at Stanford University on 3/2/2012 organised by Wonderfest. Some 65% of all research and development in the U.S. is funded by private interests. History shows that...

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  2. Bitter Taste of Tea, The: A Journey into the World of Fair Trade (2010)

    aka: Den Bitre Smag Af Te

    Director
    Tom Heinemann
    Subject
    Agriculture; Business studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 58 minutes), 28 euros

    This programme travels to tea estates in Sri Lanka, Kenya, India, and Bangladesh—some traditional, some fair trade—to expose unsafe work environments and labour exploitation. The workers are plucking tea...

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  3. David Attenborough: Perception, Deception and Reality (2004)

    Subject
    Media studies; Science

    A recording of the Michael Faraday Lecture delivered by David Attenborough at the Royal Society on 28 January 2004. Once, technical inadequacies led natural history film-makers to distort events or even...

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  4. Eat Less Meat - It’s Costing the Earth (2003)

    aka: Genetic Engineering and Farm Animals

    Subject
    Agriculture; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 17 minutes), free to education

    This video and the accompanying report argue that rising meat consumption: is putting unsustainable pressure on the earth’s resources of land, water and energy; diverts grain needed to feed people to use...

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  5. Acceptable Levels (1984)

    Director
    John Davies
    Subject
    Film studies; Media studies

    A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to the family, has been hit by a stray plastic bullet fired by a...

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  6. Idea of Freedom, The (1972)

    Director
    Michael Chanan
    Producer
    Noel Chanan
    Subject
    Philosophy
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Iris Murdoch and David Pears discuss ethics, freedom and determinism, and Freud.* (60 minutes)

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