Results

In Search of Giants: The Forces of Nature (2007)

Subject

Physics

A three-part series in which ex-pop musician and physicist, Brian Cox, shares his passion for particles, the sub-atomic world and quantum mechanics. Can everything that happens in the universe be explained...

DVD Find Other Online

Syria’s Torture Machine (2011)

Subject

History; Politics & government

An investigation into the detention and torture of Syrian civilians, featuring shocking video evidence of men, women and children being subjected to beatings, whippings and more elaborate torture. In this...

DVD Find Other Online

Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism (2016)

Subject

Architecture

Jonathan Meades investigates the architecture of Mussolini’s Italy. He finds a dictator caught between the forces of modernism and a revivalism that harked back to ancient Rome.

DVD Find Other Online

Revolution That Wasn’t, The (2010)

aka: Revolutsioon, Mida Polnud

Director

Aliona Polunina

Subject

History; Politics & government

In Russia 2007, the opposition to Putin’s regime is gathering forces for the next presidential elections. The film follows a father and his son in the National Bolshevik Party: a dream of crime and...

DVD Find Other Online

Mind Your Mind (2012)

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 47 minutes), £61.30

This documentary is a primer for psychological independence, teaching us to process more than our minds are comfortable with. From the world of advertising to the speeches of leading politicians, our...

DVD Find Other Online

All the Fun of the Fair (2010)

Subject

Mathematics

There is nothing quite like the thrill of a ride at the fair. But what is it that creates the thrills - making people actually enjoy the experience of being thrown around? The tracks in this collection look...

DVD Find Other Online

Tumbledown (1988)

Director

Richard Eyre

Subject

Media studies; Military Science; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 113 minutes), £7.00

A BBC drama based on the experiences of the Royal Scots Guard Lieutenant, Robert Lawrence, covering his military training, the fateful action he saw in the Falklands conflict and the aftermath of the...

DVD Find Other Online

Evolutionary Forces in 21st-Century Publishing: Mutation, Migration and Natural Selection (2009)

Subject

Business studies; Information technology; Librarianship; Literature

Audio recording of a talk given by Alison Jones, Director of Digital Development at Palgrave Macmillan, at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, Oxford Brookes University, in February 2009....

DVD Find Other Online

Rift! Geologic Clues to What’s Tearing Africa Apart (2014)

Subject

Geology

East Africa is one of the most geologically intriguing places on the planet: a place where the African continent is literally ripping apart. Deep rift valleys, active volcanoes, and hot springs are dramatic...

DVD Find Other Online

It from Bit: The Science of Information (2018)

Subject

Information technology

Physicist John Wheeler asked the famous ‘It from bit?' question: what if at its heart the universe is not a collection of particles, forces and fields but rather a collection of bits? If this is true, it...

DVD Find Other Online