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Chemical Curiosities: Surprising Science and Dramatic Demonstrations (2012)

Subject

Chemistry

Professor Chris Bishop, Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, presents a spectacular tour through the curious, and sometimes surprising, world of chemistry through demonstrations of a...

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Esa DVD Lesson Series

aka: European Space Agency Lesson Series

Subject

Space science

Four video lessons produced by the European Space Agency. The lessons focus on explaining basic scientific concepts and showing the difference between being on Earth and in space. All videos are now...

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Nonviolence for a Change (2011)

Subject

Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £15.00

This 30 minute film aims to stimulate and discussion on the subject of non-violent protest, and non-violent direct action in particular. The film’s makers promote non-violent protest as a way of actively...

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Chronicle of Protest: The Film

Director

Michael Chanan

Subject

Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 90 minutes), £6.00

Michael Chanan’s video diary of the anti-cuts protest movement follows the chronology of events over five months, from November 2010 to the end of March 2011. Chanan’s film is unreservedly celebratory,...

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Maïdan (2015)

aka: Maidan

Director

Sergei Loznitsa

Producer

Sergei Loznitsa

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 131), £15.99

Documentary. Chronicles a civil uprising in Kiev in the winter of 2013/2014 against the regime of President Yanukovyv. The film follows the progress of the revolution from peaceful allies in Maïdan Square...

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Opposites Attract (2012)

Subject

Media studies; Physics

A series of outside broadcasts filmed by the BBC at the Royal Institution in the late 1950s and early 1960s, The Nature of Things was presented by William Lawrence Bragg with the assistance of Bill Coates....

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Extreme World of Ultra Extreme Lasers, The (2015)

Subject

Engineering; Physics

Video podcast. The largest and most powerful lasers in the world can be used to make some of the most extreme conditions possible on earth. Scientists around the globe are using these lasers to try to...

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Remaking the Universe: Recreating a Black Hole - Where Art and Physics Collide (2011)

Subject

Art; Astronomy; Physics

While physicists attempt to understand the universe in their own way, Christian Gonzenbach draws on his experience as an artist-in-residence in the lab of Martin Pohl (University of Geneva, CERN) to do so...

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Wrestling with Words (2006)

Subject

Biology; Psychology

Every word we utter calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It’s not surprising that for many of us the process goes wrong. The result - a debilitating stammer or just everyday "disfluency". Philip...

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Chip Pan Fire

Subject

Chemistry; Education

This demonstration shows the dangers of adding water to a chip pan fire. A small quantity of cooking oil is heated in a nickel crucible over a Bunsen burner and then water is added to the oil, producing a...

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