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  1. Not Just a Game: Power, Politics & American Sports (2010)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies; Sports science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $250.00

    A powerful new documentary based on the book by Dave Zirin, The People’s History of Sports, in which he argues that far from providing merely escapist entertainment, American sports have long been at the...

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  2. Working with Pinter (2010)

    Director
    Harry Burton
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 106 minutes), £17.99

    Harry Burton’s 2007 film WORKING WITH PINTER is a unique documentary about a unique writer. Achieving unprecedented access to Harold Pinter working with actors, the film captures his collaborative spirit...

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  3. Videocracy (2009)

    Director
    Erik Gandini
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £4.99

    Silvio Berlusconi is the most powerful man in Italy, wielding authority and influence across the media, where he controls 90 per cent of television, and in politics, where he is prime minister. He even owns...

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  4. War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)

    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 45 minutes), $195.00

    Norman Solomon analyses the strategies used by US administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to promote their agendas for war, from Vietnam to Iraq. By highlighting the techniques of war propaganda,...

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  5. Moscow Elegy - Alexander Sokurov (2007)

    aka: Moskovskaya Elegiya

    Director
    Alexander Sokurov
    Subject
    Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £24.99

    Originally intended to mark the 50th birthday of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. However, disagreements within the Soviet Professional Union of Cinematographers about the style and content of the film...

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  6. Power of Nightmares, The (3 Parts) (2007)

    Director
    Adam Curtis
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    DVD (3 x 60 minutes)

    Three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain, with particular reference to the American Neoconservatives and radical Islamists.

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  7. Who Killed the Electric Car? (2007)

    Director
    Chris Paine
    Subject
    Business studies; Engineering; Politics & government; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

    In the 1990s, following California’s passing of the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, American car companies began producing electric cars for mainstream consumption. GM’s EV1, which was by all accounts...

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  8. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2007)

    Director
    Spike Lee
    Subject
    Geography; Politics & government; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 248 minutes), £25.99

    When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, director Spike Lee, like many who watched the unfolding drama on television news, was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster, but by the slow, inept and...

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  9. Ken Loach Collection Vol 2 (2007)

    Director
    Ken Loach
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 691 minutes), £59.99

    This collection brings together many of Ken Loach’s most celebrated films, along with some that are ripe for rediscovery. This second collection brings together many of his most celebrated films, along...

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  10. Peter Whitehead and the Sixties (2007)

    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £14.99

    Filmmaker Peter Whitehead was at the heart of Swinging London, chronicling the youth explosion, the burgeoning popular music scene and the counterculture of the 1960s. Two of his films are now released for...

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