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  1. Risk (2017)

    Director
    Laura Poitras
    Producer
    Sam Esmail
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £9.99

    Documentary. Filmmaker Laura Poitras filmed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his team over a period of six years. This film is the result.

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  2. Tough Being Loved by Jerks (2015)

    Producer
    Daniel Leconte
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 102 mins), $149.00

    Documentary. Because he had published the twelve Danish cartoons that had incurred the wrath of Muslims worldwide, Philippe Val, the editor of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper, was cited to court...

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  3. Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)

    Director
    Brian Knappenberger
    Producer
    Brian Knappenberger
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 105 minutes), $17.89

    Biographical documentary film depicting the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organiser and Internet activist Aaron Swartz who helped develop the internet protocol RSS and was a...

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  4. Shadows of Liberty (2013)

    Director
    Jean-Philippe Tremblay
    Producer
    Jean-Philippe Tremblay; Dan Cantagallo
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 93 minutes), $295.00

    SHADOWS OF LIBERTY examines the power a handful of powerful corporations has over the US news media, exposing how the influence of vested interests and commercial imperatives has distorted news journalism...

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  5. Wikileaks: Secrets & Lies (2011)

    Director
    Patrick Ford
    Producer
    Mark Bentley
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195.00

    Using first hand, exclusive interviews with those involved, WIKILEAKS: SECRETS & LIES documents the story of the biggest data spillage in history. The film reveals how the Guardian newspaper turned the...

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  6. Fight Against Fanaticism: Us Anti-Repression Films (2010)

    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 124 minutes), $19.95

    Five films fighting for freedom of dissent against bigoted oppression. Contents: DESPOTISM (1946, 11:00) Extraordinary film that seeks to explain how societies can be placed upon a graduated scale...

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  7. This is Not a Film (2010)

    Director
    Jafar Panahi
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £14.99

    Film by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, made on an iPhone and a DV camera, documenting the director’s house arrest in his Tehran apartment as he awaits the result of his appeal against his twenty-year ban...

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  8. Obscene - A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press (2009)

    Director
    Neil Ortenberg; Daniel O’Connor
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £19.99

    OBSCENE is the definitive film biography of Barney Rosset, the influential publisher of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review. He acquired the then fledgling Grove Press in 1951 and soon embarked on a...

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  9. Freedom of Expression: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)

    Subject
    Law; Librarianship; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 60 minutes), $250.00

    In 1998, university professor Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa) trademarked the phrase "freedom of expression"—a startling comment on the way that...

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  10. Why Democracy? (Short Films) (2007)

    Subject
    Development studies; Philosophy; Politics & government
    Distribution
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    In October 2007, ten one-hour films focusing on contemporary democracy were broadcast in the world’s largest ever factual media event. Running alongside the 10 documentaries, and integral to the outreach...

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