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Aeroplane Dance (1994 Video)

aka: Ka-Wayawayama

Director

Trevor Graham

Subject

Anthropology; Dance

Distribution

Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Records the ‘ky-wayawayama’ or ‘aeroplane dance’ of the Yanyuwa people of the Borroloola area in the Northern Territory of Australia. The dance was came about after an American bomber crashed in the...

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Search for the Tunguska Meteorite, The (1967 Video)

Subject

Geology

Distribution

Special loan only, Videocassette. Standard formats. col.

At 7.17am on June 30, 1908, an explosion of tremendous violence disrupted the remote Siberian taiga several hundred miles north of Irkutsk. The film describes this event and the scientific effort that has...

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Jacques Cousteau Odyssey (2006)

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 624 minutes), £29.99

Jacques-Yves Cousteau was television’s most celebrated maker and presenter of documentaries about the underwater world. Setting the standard for such programmes for decades to come, he had a profound...

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High Art of the Low Countries, The (2013)

Producer

Basil Comely

Subject

Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the history of art, architecture and culture in the Low Countries, examining how the artists of Belgium and Holland were driven to search for anidentity in an area that was...

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Rough Science, Series 3: New Zealand Gold Rush (2003)

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £15.00

A series in which five scientists follow in the footsteps of the original prospectors from 1860 and undertake an epic journey on the rugged west coast of New Zealand’s South Island to hunt for gold. Kate...

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Dna: The Story of the Pioneers Who Changed the World (2004)

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (300 minutes), £24.95

A double DVD consisting of five programmes (four of them broadcast on Channel 4) tracing the history of one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century - the double-helix structure of DNA.

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Ancient Voices (2006)

Subject

Archaeology; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 550 minutes), £29.99 the set

A series of 11 programmes investigating the mysteries of specific historical artefacts and monuments and the cultures that spawned them.

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Long Search, The (1977 Video)

Subject

Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 13 x 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £325.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Survey by Ronald Eyre of the world’s major religions. Each part shows encounters with men and women an attempts to capture something of the faith and understanding of individual people. 1: The Hindu...

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Landscape Mysteries (2006)

Subject

Archaeology; Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 233 minutes), £54.99

The Landscape Mysteries DVD Pack includes the 8 full programmes from the series looking at how clues are hidden in the landscape. They include, In Search of Irish Gold, Figures in the Chalk, Britain before...

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Tribe, Series 1-3 (2007)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 900 minutes), £34.99

Compiilation of the three series of television programmes in which Bruce Parry goes to live with some of the world’s oldest indigenous people in the most remote parts of the planet, shedding the trappings...

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