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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. The House of Wisdom and the Legacy of Arabic Science (2008)

    Subject
    Science

    Video recording of the 2007 Michael Faraday Lecture given at the Royal Society by Professor Jim Al-Khalili. While Europe languished in the Dark Ages the spread of Islam heralded a remarkable period of...

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  5. Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark (2011)

    Subject
    Geography; Politics & government

    Bahrain: An island kingdom in the Arabian Gulf where the Shia Muslim majority are ruled by a family from the Sunni minority. Where people fighting for democratic rights broke the barriers of fear, only to...

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  6. Rebel Architecture (2014)

    Subject
    Architecture; Environmental science

    A six-part documentary series from Al Jazeera profiling architects who are using design as a form of activism and resistance to tackle the world’s urban, environmental and social crises. The series follows...

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  7. Oath, The (2010)

    Director
    Laura Poitras
    Subject
    Arabic studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 96 minutes), £9.99

    Two men who were part of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network look back on their past in this documentary from director Laura Poitras. Before the September 11, 2001 attacks, Abu Jandal was one of bin Laden’s...

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  8. Higgs Boson (2010)

    Subject
    Physics

    In 1964 Peter Higgs had a big idea about the mystery of how matter in the universe got its mass. This question has such an important place in physics that well over one billion pounds is being spent in the...

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  9. Tunisia: The Death of Fear (2011)

    Subject
    Geography; History; Politics & government

    In an exclusive documentary Rageh Omaar traces the roots and repercussions of the uprising in Tunisia - a revolution which ended half a century of autocratic rule and inspired a wave of public protest that...

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  10. Virtual Revolution, The

    Subject
    Information technology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £34.99

    A four part series presented by technology journalist Aleks Krotoski which examines the way in which the internet is transforming people’s lives. Investigating Google, Amazon, Twitter, Wikipedia and You...

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