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John Romer ventures to the sites of two ancient cities created by Alexander the Great - cities that were considered among the most beautiful and unusual the world has ever seen. He also explores the culture...
Finely constructed working models are used to trace the development of steam power from Heron of Alexandria and Branca, via Newcomen and Trevithick to heavy industrial and marine engines.
Archaeologist Dr Tony Spawforth follows in the footsteps of Alexander the Great, from ancient Thebes in Egypt and the half-flooded catacombs under Alexandria, to the mountains of Turkey, to uncover legends...
A history of heat engine development from Hero of Alexandria to Rudolph Diesel. Includes archival film of old machinery in motion including steam engines (Crofton, Youngs Brewery at Wandsworth), ships, early...
In this classic series Carl Sagan goes beyond a guided tour through billions of stars and galaxies, covering everything from the cells which build life to the Big Bang that started it all. The programmes...
Documentary, with some re-enacted material. Official British war film. The story of the British Eighth Army’s victory at El Alamein in the autumn of 1942, and its advance across nearly 1400 miles of desert...
Part of a series exploring ways of resolving conflicts across Africa. 1: In the waning days of the Mobutu regime, people in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) return to traditional...
Five thousand years ago, the first cities in the world were built on the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers in what is now Iraq. Here was the first writing, the first law, the first science -...
A series of seven videos for teaching mathematics using computer animation. Further information on the series is given online at: http://www.projectmathematics.com/index.htm
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