Results

Passage (2009)

Director

John Walker

Subject

Geography; History

Distribution

DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 113 minutes), $99.00

The news shook the English-speaking world. Celebrated British explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew perished in the Arctic during an ill-fated attempt to discover the Northwest Passage. More shocking, they...

DVD Find Other To order

Inside the Script e-Books

Date

30 Apr 2012, 12:20

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

Post

Warner Bros. Digital Distribution has launched a new series of eBooks called Inside the Script. The initial publications as part of this new initiative provide screenplays and masses of detailed...

Other Record only

Wired for Books: Raymond Carver (1983)

Subject

Literature

In this 1983 interview with Don Swaim, the short story writer and poet, Raymond Carver, talks about growing up in the Pacific Northwest, his writing life, and his struggle with alcoholism.

DVD Find Other Online

Seeing New Englandly

Producer

Ernie Urvater

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 57 minutes), $19.95

SEEING NEW ENGLANDLY, the second programme in the series "Angles of a Landscape: Perspectives on Emily Dickinson," explores the poet’s education, her lifelong interest in science and literature, her...

DVD Find Other To order

Pine Point: A Lead-Zinc Deposit (1985 Video)

Subject

Environmental science; Geography; Geology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £55.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A case study of a large metal mine: the Pine Point deposit, one of the world’s largest lead-zine mines, lies on the southern shore of Great Slave Lake in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Here, in the...

DVD Find Other To order

Eruption of Mount St Helens, The (1981 Multimedia)

Producer

Tony Midson

Subject

Geology

Distribution

REFERENCE COPY AT BUFVC, Audiocassette. 35 min. 154 colour slides.

In March 1980 the Mount St Helens volcano in Washington state became active after over a century of quiet. For two months it displayed a variety of geological phenomena that captivated the public and...

DVD Find Other To order

Walbiri Ritual at Ngama (1966 Film)

Director

Roger Sandall

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Ngama is a Walbiri ritual centre near Yuendumu some 200 miles northwest of Alice Springs in Central Australia. It is distinguished by a large rock painting of a snake, and much of the associated ritual is...

DVD Find Other Record only

Liverpool on Film: 1897 to 1967 (2007)

Subject

Architecture; History; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £9.99

To mark Liverpool’s 800th birthday this DVD of archive film footage tells the story of Liverpool during the turbulent times of the twentieth century. Liverpool was one of the first cities in the world to...

DVD Find Other Record only

In the Land of the War Canoes (1972 Film)

aka: In the Land of the Headhunters

Director

Edward S Curtis

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A romanticised saga of Kwakiutl Indian life on the northwest coast of America, filmed in 1914 by Edward S Curtis, who was already famous for his still photographs of Indians, and his writings about them. It...

DVD Find Other To order

First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture (2010)

Director

David Sheen

Subject

Architecture; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 90 minutes), $19.95

FIRST EARTH is about a massive paradigm shift for shelter—building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the old days, by recreating villages. An...

DVD Find Other To order