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  1. Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture (2008)

    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 400 minutes), £24.99

    Dan Cruickshank travels across the world, celebrating different types of architecture and showing how our buildings reveal our aspirations, our ingenuity and our beliefs. In each programme, buildings from...

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  2. The Lost World of Friese-Greene

    Date
    22 Jun 2015, 12:50
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    The Lost World of Friese-Greene. 2006. GB. DVD. 177 minutes. £19.99 N.B. This review originally appeared in issue 64 of Viewfinder in October 2006. About the reviewer: Professor Vanessa Toulmin is...

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  3. London: A Tale of Two Cities (2013)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £14.99

    Presenter Dan Cruickshank explores the history of London in the 17th century via witnesses John Stow and John Strype, whose surveys and observations depict a city surviving war, plague and fire to become one...

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  4. What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: Material World (2005)

    Subject
    History; Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 30 minutes), £24.99

    Dan Cruickshank looks at the achievements of the Industrial Revolution: amongst them not only the Spinning Jenny and the steam engine, but the first jigsaw, the first stethoscope, the first tinned food and...

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  5. What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: On the Move (2005)

    Subject
    History; Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 30 minutes), £24.99

    Dan Cruickshank looks at the development of transport during the Industrial Revolution, including the roadbuilding of John Loudon Macadam; James Brindley’s canal network; George Stephenson and the...

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  6. What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: Modern Medicine

    Subject
    History; Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL), £24.99

    Dan Cruickshank presents a history of medical innovation during the industrial revolution, focusing on James Lind’s treatment of scurvy with oranges and lemons, in the first ever clinical trial; Edward...

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  7. What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: Working Wonders

    Subject
    History; Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 30 minutes), £24.99

    Dan Cruickshank traces the origins of the 21st century working world in some of the innovations of the Industrial Revolution, including James Watt’s steam engine; Richard Arkwright’s spinning frame which...

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  8. What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: War Machine

    Subject
    History; Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL), £24.99

    Dan Cruickshank discovers how the Industrial Revolution created modern warfare. He looks at inventions such as The Turtle, the first submarine used in conflict; the interchangeable Baker rifle; Congreve’s...

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  9. Lost World of Friese-Greene, The (2006)

    Director
    Claude Friese-Greene
    Subject
    Film Studies; Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 177 minutes), £19.99

    In the mid-1920s, Claude Friese-Greene drove from Land’s End to John O’Groats making a series of films en route. These remarkable films captured the life and people on his journey in colour, at a time...

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  10. Lost World of Tibet, The: The Director’s Cut (2008)

    Director
    Emma Hindley
    Producer
    Emma Hindley
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

    Dan Cruickshank presents this illuminating documentary about life in Tibet prior to the brutal Chinese occupation of 1950. Colour films dating back to that period have been carefully restored, revealing...

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