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Challenge, The: The Riddle of the Tay Bridge Disaster (2002)

Subject

Design; Engineering

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 29 minutes), £34.99

One of Britain’s most terrible railway disasters was the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster, when everyone on board a passenger train was killed when the central section of the bridge toppled into the Firth of Tay....

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New British Pathé website

Date

31 Jan 2012, 10:02

Author

bufvcsergio

Post Type

Post

[caption id="attachment_12640" align="alignright" width="240" caption="www.britishpathe.com"][/caption] That venerable newsreel company British Pathé has launched its new website at www.britishpathe.com...

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Bhopal: The Second Tragedy (1995 Video)

Director

Sunandan Walia

Producer

Sunandan Walia

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 51 min.

Mark Tully investigates the Bhopal disaster of 1984 and its continuing devastation on the city’s inhabitants. Ten years after methyl isocyanate gas from a Union Carbide chemical factory leaked over the...

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It Couldn’t Happen Here: Fire Safety in Halls of Residence (1997 Video)

Director

John Allen; Michael J Clark

Subject

Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, VHS (11 minutes)

Looks at potential fire hazards and aspects of fire safety in halls of residence Stresses that a fire-conscious approach can prevent disaster, and shows how to react in case of fire and what to do when a...

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Beyond Famine? (1986 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

In 1974 world attention was focused on a sever famine in Bangladesh which killed hundreds of thousands of people. flooding in that year had destroyed crops and killed livestock, but when similar floods...

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Banking on Disaster (1987 Video)

Director

Adrian Cowell

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., 1998 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Documents the destruction of parts of the South American rainforest as the land is opened up by new roads and the forest is cleared to make way for coffee plantations and cattle ranches. As the settlers move...

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War Against the Zulus, The (1996 Video)

aka: Zulu Wars 1879 - The Disaster at Isandlwhana

Subject

History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min.

Uses battle reconstructions from the film ZULU DAWN, further reconstructions and re-enactments, dramatised eye-witness accounts, and 3-D mapping techniques to tell the story of the slaughter at Isandlwhana,...

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Deadly Quarrels (1996)

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99

During World War 1 eight million people were killed and 20 million wounded. Two people turned to mathematics in a hope of preventing another such disaster. The Quaker Lewis Fry Richardson generated complex...

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Nuclear Wasteland, The (1988 Video)

Producer

James Cutler

Subject

Technology

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 53 min.

In the wake of the disaster at Chernobyl, Britain’s own nuclear industry is under renewed examination. The country’s secret weapons factories are scrutinised and controversial findings about the civil...

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Perception and Communication. Part 6: The Hixon Level Crossing Disaster of January 1968 (1971 Video)

Director

Martin Hayden

Producer

Martin Hayden

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. b&w. 50 min.

Uses a railway accident at a level crossing as a history to provide actual examples of the factors affecting perception and communication, factors often similar to those that were demonstrated more generally...

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