(95 min; 2011; Hebrew/Arabic and with English subtitles)
Directors: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi

Multiple award winner including World Cinema Documentary Directing Award, Sundance 2012; Audience Award and Special Jury Award, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2011; Cinema Eye Honors Award, USA 2013 for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking; Louis Marcorelles Award, Cinéma du Réel 2012; Emmy Award for Documentary, International Emmy Awards 2013; Busan Cinephile Award, Pusan International Film Festival 2012; among others

For the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel, Emad bought a camera to film his family. Soon he found another use for the camera, recording the increasingly chaotic scenes taking place around his house. Emad is a Palestinian farmer and his house is in the village of Bil'in where Israeli settlers, backed by the army, are gradually taking the land.

Emad was already well known in the area for putting himself at risk day after day in order to record the actions of the soldiers, when Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi visited the village to make his documentary Interrupted Streams. Davidi stayed in the village for three months while he was filming and during this time came to know Emad and realised that there was a film to be made from his footage. 

A deeply personal account of life in Palestine.
 

Secrets of the Spanish Armada (UK) Click here to watch
(47 min; 2019; English)
Director: Richard Max

Draining the ocean near Newfoundland reveals a preserved Basque galleon trading in lucrative whale oil. The failed invasion of Tudor England by the Philip II's Great Armada left shipwrecks all over the Northern Atlantic. The Spanish empire relied on powerful ships like this to bring back valuable cargo, like silver and tobacco, from the New World. But when emerging rival England wanted a share of this wealth, the Spanish attacked. Draining an Armada wreck off the coast of Ireland reveals an extraordinary battle for control.

https://vimeo.com/390163240/b237004f93

(90 min; 1997; English)
Director: Peter Rosen

Beginning as a commercial architect in New York City after emigrating from China in the 50s, I.M. Pei gained attention when his proposal for the John F. Kennedy Memorial was selected over others from high-profile peers of the 60s. Construction never happened when Robert Kennedy was assassinated, but in the intervening years, Pei has designed some of the most beautiful, striking buildings around the world.

Peter Rosen's excellent documentary on the quintessential 20th Century architect – inspired by the systems of order from the family rock garden in China, to modern construction techniques – Pei's designs are catered to the needs of each client, and the building's functionality, but Rosen's film is more than a graceful journey through some of Pei's best-known buildings.

A six part BBC series with Michael Mosley who takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path.

Episode 3: How Did We Get Here? (60 min) | Click here to watch
Director: Peter Oxely

The question of our human origins is one of the most controversial science has wrestled with. This is the story of how scientists came to explain the beauty and diversity of life on earth, and reveal how its evolution is connected to the long and violent history of our planet. Featuring ocean adventurers, eccentric French aristocrats, mountain climbers, a secret Victorian publisher with 12 fingers, a ridiculed German meteorologist, and only a brief hint of Charles Darwin.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x66cjbg
 

(58 min; 2013; English)
Director: Time Niell
A BBC Production

Novelist Jay McInerney explores the life and writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose masterwork The Great Gatsby has just been filmed for the fifth time.

Fitzgerald captured the reckless spirit of New York life in the roaring twenties - the flappers, the parties, the bootleg liquor, the inevitable reckoning, and the hangover to come. In Gatsby, he created a character who reinvented himself for love - just as Fitzgerald would, not once, but twice. Fitzgerald never wrote an autobiography. He left us something better - letters. Romantic, arrogant, humble letters; letters to editors, publishers, lovers, or friends.

These letters reveal the inner thoughts of a man whose real life was never far from the fiction he wrote.

Edited by Francesca Orsini (Oxford university Press: 2022)

Release of the book followed by a discussion

Discussants: Dr. Narayani Gupta, urban historian, author and formerly Professor of History, Jamia Millia Islamia University; Dr.Shahid Amin, formerly Professor of History, University of Delhi; Prof. John Seyller, Professor of Art History, University of Vermont; and Prof. Francesca Orsini, Professor of Hindi and South Asian Literature, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and Editor of the book

An important volume demonstrating the enduring impact of renowned scholar Simon Digby's work, and its profound relevance to future research. In this volume prominent scholars of South Asia in the fields of economic, social, religious, literary, music, photography, and art history reflect on Simon Digby's method and contribution to their respective fields, and each offer an example of their method through the analysis of a painting, object, manuscript, literary text, or building from the Sultanate, Mughal, and colonial periods.