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A campaign has been launched to get Marikana documentary ‘Miners Shot Down’ aired on free-to-air TV. Despite, or maybe because of, the shocking portrayal of events and broader reasons for the massacre, it’s unlikely those without DStv will see the documentary soon. GREG NICOLSON looks into the situation.
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A key film on the Marikana massacre and its broader implications. The producers have also very kindly uploaded the documentary to Youtube and you can watch it online here. 
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Published on Aug 2, 2014 Clearing the shells fired during the World War One in the Verdun sector of the Western Front could take another 100 years or more, and old missiles could still claim lives.
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Abducted as a child, forced to kill, Jose has a dream one night and decides to risk everything to act on it. These are the true casualties of war. Please share his story.
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1 August 2014 Bomb damage in Paris, the Meuse-Argonne offensive by US troops, the destruction of Ypres and the creation of the Cenotaph in London ... archive photographs of significant events of the first world war in Belgium, France, Ireland and England are matched with the locations today.
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Published on Jul 31, 2014 Emergency doctor and ex-army officer compares medical equipment used in modern warfare with WW1.
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As Israel’s devastating military offensive against Gaza enters its third week, American media coverage continues to emphasize Israel’s right to defend itself from Hamas rocket fire.
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23 July 2014 In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop the election of a black Republican candidate to office after the Civil War. Tactics of electoral exclusion refined over time, such that by the mid-twentieth century the Jim Crow South relied largely on nearly impossible-to-pass literacy tests to impede free and fair elections.
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This is the first in an occasional series on what South Africa would look like should red overalls become official Parliamentary garb. Today: on silencing The Call. By RICHARD POPLAK.
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Published on Jul 23, 2014 The Vula Connection is one of apartheid's untold stories, and at its centre is an unusual hero, Tim Jenkin. Quiet, and bookish, he turns against his own government and the privileged lifestyle it guarantees him, signing up with the black liberation movement that is banned in apartheid South Africa. Jenkin is caught and dispatched to a high security prison. But against all odds, his patience and meticulous attention to detail get him and two prisoners through 10 locked doors...to freedom.
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The centenary of the 1914–18 war reveals Britain to be a country of permanent involution, says David Hayes
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The hostilities in Gaza offer a chance to put the current death and destruction into a larger historical context – and allow J. BROOKS SPECTOR to sigh that things are not likely to get much better in the near future.
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Published on Aug 4, 2014 “Dear mother, just a card to let you know of safe arrival at destination.” Like echoes of the past, the voices of WW1 soldiers and their families come back to us with a haunting sadness. Composed entirely of postcards sent to and from the front during the First World War, the film reflects on the physical destruction as well as the breakdown of human relationships.
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A candle-lit vigil at Westminster Abbey and a "lights out" event have concluded a day of ceremonies marking 100 years since Britain entered World War One.
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The Royal British Legion is embarking on the largest act of commemoration this country has ever known, to ensure that every one of them is remembered.
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I thought this was an unusual way of approaching a subject which generally only interests older people. You may want to print out copies for your classroom?
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Published on Jul 27, 2014 America has over 4,800 nuclear weapons, and we don’t take terrific care of them. It’s terrifying, basically.
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John Oliver reviews the Cold War attitude to nuclear warheads and the current American situation. Granted, he does probably cherry-pick alarming bits from news coverage, but it's still a bit worrying. This might be an interesting (and amusing) way to introduce Cold War history. Just check through it first-some of the language might be a bit salty for your classroom.
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Published on Jul 26, 2014 Archaeologists say they've discovered tens of thousands of early stone age artefacts at Kathu in the Northern Cape, and there might be millions more. But development might be encroaching on the site...
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Robert Mugabe prefers Savile Row suits to traditional African garb. Winston Churchill occasionally wore a velvet overall he called a “siren suit”, the four pockets and buttons of the Mao suit are all imbued with political significance, while in the US in the 1940s Zoot suits were a sign of rebellion. If you thought the battle over the EFF’s red overalls was political, think again; sometimes it’s all about theatre by Marianne Thamm
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Published on Jul 24, 2014 In which John Green teaches you about disease, and the effects that disease has had in human history. Disease has been with man since the beginning, and it has shaped the way humans operate in a lot of ways.
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24 July 2014 It may not boast glittering treasures from ancient Egypt, but a new Tutankhamun exhibition shows how the discovery of the boy king's tomb in 1922 had a huge impact on popular culture across the globe.
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The terrible results of the missile strike that hit MH017 are abundantly clear. However, at least until now, it is not yet clear who, exactly, fired the missile that brought down the aircraft. Still, what’s clear from history - if history is to repeat itself - is that the disaster is momentous, illustrative, and a game-changer. By J. BROOKS SPECTOR.
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Published on Jun 29, 2014 Bosnia-Herzegovina, 28 June 2014 - The murder of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand is said to the the spark that ignited World War I, a century ago. Even though assassin Gavrilo Princip has been a divisive figure in Bosnia's history, a statue of him was unveiled this week in Sarajevo.
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A key film on the Marikana massacre and its broader implications. The producers have also very kindly uploaded the documentary to Youtube and you can watch it online here.