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Farewell Arabia

United Kingdom, 1950
tv-show

An account of what the discovery of oil has done to the tiny sheikdom of Abu Dhabi whose population of 200,000 were still living a simple life. The film shows..

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Saudi Arabia: the oil revolution

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Arabian children

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We found a valley

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