Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Letters from Baghdad / Between the Rivers Productions presents ; a Letters From Baghdad, Ltd production ; produced in association with Missing in Action Films ; directed by Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl ; produced by Zeva Oelbaum.

Publisher, Date:

[Arlington, VA] : PBS Distribution, [2019]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

Gertrude Bell is sometimes called the female Lawrence of Arabia. Bell was an explorer, spy, archaeologist, and diplomat who helped shape the Middle East after World War I. Advisor to Winston Churchill and critic of colonial policies in Iraq, Bell was considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day. The film takes viewers into a past that is eerily current. Why has Bell been written out of the history she helped make?

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated TV-PG.

Subjects:

Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926.

Women Arabists -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Arabists -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Women colonial administrators -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Colonial administrators -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Women archaeologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Archaeologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Travel writers -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Iraq -- Politics and government -- 1921-1958.