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European/Baltic Studies
Product Highlights : European/Baltic Studies
Pozieres
Hosay Trinidad (1999)
Singapore Industrialisation And Migration
Into the Current: Burma's Political Prisoners
The Mainland
Kama Wosi: Music in the Trobriand Islands (1979)Showing products 1 to 12 of 168
 | 6 Days In June This groundbreaking documentary provides a fresh perspective on the war, bringing to life its battlefields, politics, and the personal stories of the many lives it affected. Today, the region remains trapped in a never-ending cycle of occupation, terrorism and reprisal, much of which is caused by the same animosity that… | $264.00ex GST
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 | 7 Wonders of China Series Explore the majesty and history of 7 wonders of China from well known wonders including the Terracotta Warriors, to lesser known jawdroppers like the Leshan Buddha. Using cutting-edge CGI, expert insight and dramatic reconstruction, this series explores The Forbidden City, The Hanging Monastery, The Terracotta Warriors, Shi Bao Zhai Temple,… | $299.00ex GST
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 | A Calling to Care (2001) A Calling to Care is the inspiring story of 55 year-old Grace Stanley, a Canadian nurse who left her home and prestigious career behind to answer a calling halfway around the world in Karachi, Pakistan. Teaching nursing to local women in a strict Muslim culture that forbids them to even… | $204.00ex GST
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 | A Wife Among Wives We hear the testimony of three remarkable sisters (one of them being Arwoto, the senior wife of Lorang, who figures so prominently in the other films). We also experience the gradual unfolding of plans for a marriage in a neighbouring homestead. In the course of these plans we learn why… | $331.00ex GST
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 | About Baghdad In July of 2003, exiled writer and poet Sinan Antoon returned to his native Baghdad with a team of independent filmmakers, artists and activists to document the effects that decades of oppression, war, sanctions and occupation have had on his city. The result is a fascinating mosaic of opinions, perspectives,… | $331.00ex GST
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 | Afghan Chronicles Since the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan has been rebuilding itself and reviving democracy, and there is some freedom of expression. With its radio station and two magazines, one of them aimed at women, the press agency Killid Media is a real media phenomenon. This new press, dedicated to fighting… | $325.00ex GST
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 | Afghan Stories Taran Davies, an investment banker, resigned a week after the September 11 terrorist attacks and left for Afghanistan a few weeks later. He took his video camera and a friend, Walied Osman, a Queens-born American of Afghan descent who would act as interpreter and adviser. A thoughtful, personal account of… | $331.00ex GST
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 | Afghan Women (1974) The words of the women and the rhythm of their lives in the seclusion of family compounds suggests both the satisfying and the limiting aspects of a woman's role in a rural Afghan community. Filmed in the Balkh Province, an area inhabited by Tajik and other Central Asian peoples. The… | $204.00ex GST
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 | Afghanistan / Faces of Change collection - 5 DVD Set About the Faces of Change collection This revolutionary series of 26 - 16mm films and videos, funded by the National Science Foundation, produced by Norman Miller and documented by some of the finest ethnographic filmmakers of our time. The films examine 5 cultures selected for the diversity of their geographic… | $954.00ex GST
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 | Afghanistan: The Lost Truth Shortly after the fall of the Taliban, Yassamin Maleknasr embarked on a remarkable journey across Afghanistan, the only woman filmmaker to travel such distances since the end of the regime. The resulting film, Afghanistan: The Lost Truth is a fascinating look at the people, culture and landscape of the country—and… | $264.00ex GST
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 | Ages of Gold The story of India in the Middle Ages. At the time of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West and the European Dark Ages, India had a series of great flowerings of culture, both in the North and the South. Michael Wood shows us some of the amazing… | $364.00ex GST
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 | Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshawar, Pakistan (1985) Between 1973 and 1977 John Baily carried out extensive ethnomusicological fieldwork on the urban music of Afghanistan, particularly in the western city of Herat. In 1985, he traveled to Peshawar to film Afghan refugees who were musicians and again met his old friend Amir Mohammad, from Herat. The film portrays… | $204.00ex GST
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