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  1. Gravity and Me: The Force That Shapes Our Lives (2017)

    Subject
    Physics; Science
    Distribution
    Out of distribution

    Professor Jim Al-Khalili investigates the science of gravity in this 90 minute programme.

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  2. Secret Life of Chaos, The (2011)

    Director
    Nic Stacey
    Subject
    Physics

    Documentary in which Professor Jim Al-Khalili shows how chaos theory can answer a question that mankind has asked for millennia - how does a universe that starts off as dust end up with intelligent life?...

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  3. Spiral Cage, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Philip Haas
    Producer
    Philip Haas
    Subject
    English language and literature; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (inclusive)

    Relates the story of how Al Davidson dealt with and overcame his spina bifida, and this became the subject of his acclaimed autobiographical comic book ‘The Spiral Cage’.

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  4. Britain’s Nuclear Secrets: Inside Sellafield (2015)

    Subject
    Science; Technology

    Documentary. For the first time, a tour of Britain’s most controversial nuclear facility, where Professor Jim Al-Khalili reveals the nature of radiation and attempts to split the atom. [60 minutes].

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  5. Only the Dead (2015)

    Director
    Michael Ware
    Subject
    History; Politics & government

    Documentary by Australian journalist Michael Ware which tells the story of the insurgency led by militant Islamist Abu Musab al Zarqawi during the Iraq War through footage filmed by Ware during the war.

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  6. Inconvenient Truth, An (2006)

    Director
    Davis Guggenheim
    Subject
    Environmental science; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

    Davis Guggenheim’s film is based on one of a series of lectures given by former presidential candidate Al Gore to make people aware of the the dangers of global warming. It breaks up Gore’s delivery by...

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  7. Square, The (2014)

    aka: Midan, Al

    Director
    Jehane Noujaim
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 106 minutes), £17.99

    In 2011 filmmaker Jehane Noujaim was a regular visitor to the demonstrations in Tahriri Square in Cairo, and his documentary AL MIDAN (THE SQUARE) captures Egypt’s political upheaval as it happens, with...

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  8. Control Room (2004)

    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £19.99

    A documentary on the coverage and perception of the American and British War against Iraq, but this time from the perspective of the Arabic news channel Al-Jazeera. It provides an important contrast to the...

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  9. Al-Ghazali - The Alchemist of Happiness (2011)

    Director
    Ovidio Salazar
    Producer
    Ovidio Salazar
    Subject
    Philosophy; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 80 minutes), £19.95

    Born in 1058 in Tus, Khorasan, in present-day Iran, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali was one of the most original thinkers the world has known. Besides being a major influence in the Muslim world, the West has also felt...

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  10. Secrets of Quantum Physics, The (2014)

    Subject
    Physics

    Jim Al-Khalili investigates quantum physics. Episode 1: Einstein’s Nightmare: How Albert Einstein thought he’d found the fatal flaw in the theory of quantum physics. [60 minutes] Let There Be Life: A...

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