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  1. Flow: For the Love of Water (2010)

    Director
    Irena Salina
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 93 minutes), £14.99

    Irena Salina directs this feature-length documentary about the industry and consumption of water. As African villages survive on potentially toxic water supplies out of sheer necessity, Salina explores how...

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  2. Twentieth-Century World (1998 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 100 min., 1999 sale: £7.50 (inclusive)

    Series exploring the social, economic and political events that have affected the lives of British people in the 20th century. Themes include: the shipyards of Cardiff, colonial life in Kenya, the electronic...

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  3. Poverty Answering Back (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Social welfare
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 12 min., 1999 sale: £16.00 (inclusive)

    A compilation of eight short films made for Channel Four in which poor people speak for themselves. Participants come from Eritrea, Bangladesh, the UK, Canada, th USA, Lebanon, Nicaragua, and Hong Kong.

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  4. Frontline Britain (2 Parts) (1996 Video)

    Director
    Stephen Scott
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 52 min., 1997 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

    A two-part documentary looking in the deepening divisions in society and the emergence of an ‘underclass’. 1: Some senior police officers now see a connection between crime and poverty. Notes...

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  5. Changing Face of Poverty, The (1988 Video)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Examines the recommendations of the Beveridge Report of 1942 on which was based the consensus on the Welfare State in Britain, which lasted into the 1970s.

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  6. Life and Death in Rio (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Vic Lockwood
    Subject
    Development studies; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Rio de Janeiro has the reputation of being the world’s most glamorous city, but nine million people who live there are subject to infectious diseases and malnutrition. Death rates are high and life...

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  7. Photographer As Witness, The (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Susan Boyd-Bowman
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Examines the part played by photographers in the discovery of poverty in late 19th-century America. The policy of eradicating social ills by government measures occurred during the period known as the...

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