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  1. Megacities (2011)

    Director
    Michael Glawogger
    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

    This documentary explores the resourcefulness and imagination of people living in some of the world’s most overpopulated cities: Bombay, New York, Moscow and Mexico City.The film is a tale in twelve...

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  2. Up the Yangtze (2008)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 93 minutes), £14.99

    The Three Gorges Dam, the largest engineering project since the Great Wall and hotly contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle, provides the epic and unsettling backdrop for UP THE YANGTZE, a dramatic...

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  3. Chinese Schools (2008)

    aka: Chinese School

    Subject
    Education; Geography; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £17.00

    Documentary series about the hopes and dreams of a group of children at three schools in the small Chinese town of Xiuning, in rural Anhui. The programmes focus on the lives of a group of families, teachers...

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  4. Divided Manchester (2006)

    Subject
    Geography; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-ROM, 30 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    This film is a journey through one of Britain’s most challenging cities: Manchester. Two sociologists Linda Janes and Gerry Mooney use the new Metrolink Tram to take them around the city, meeting people as...

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  5. Surviving Cities/City Futures (1999)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 30 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    With half the world’s population now living in cities, uses evidence drawn from examinations of New York, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Mexico City, Moscow, Sydney and Manchester to ask crucial questions about...

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  6. Sydney: Living with Difference (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (30 minutes ), £34.99

    Notes that Sydney has transformed itself from an outpost of the British Empire to one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world in just over 20 years. Using Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras as a...

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  7. South West Donegal: Economy and Culture (1986 Video)

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

    South-west Donegal is now a modern success story - industry has been introduced against formidable odds in such a remote region, emigraiton is on the wane, and, for the first time in living memory, the local...

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  8. South West Donegal: Tradition and Change (1986 Video)

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

    South-west Donegal is one of the most remote parts of Western Europe - a land of scattered settlements and small farms, In the past the economy was based on farming, fishing, spinning and weaving, and...

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