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  1. After the Flood 2 (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Bettina Lerner
    Subject
    Engineering; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

    The Mississippi is one of the most rigorously controlled and engineered rivers in the world, yet in the summer of 1993 it suffered the worst flooding in its history. Fundamental questions are being asked...

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  2. Genie (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Linda Garman; Colin Poole
    Subject
    Linguistics; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A girl who had spent the first 13 years of her life locked inside a single room tethered to a potty, was virtually mute when she eventually escaped. She had never had a normal human relationship. The...

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  3. Ghosts in the Dinosaur Graveyard (1993 Video)

    Director
    John Lynch
    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The Gobi Desert of Mongolia is the world’s harshest places and its greatest dinosaur graveyard. An expedition from the American Museum of Natural History follows in the 1920s’ footsteps of one of the...

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  4. Assault on the Male (1996 Video)

    Director
    Deborah Cadbury
    Producer
    Deborah Cadbury
    Subject
    Environmental science; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) 1993 version

    Scientists estimate that sperm counts have fallen by half over the last 50 years. Testicular cancer and malformations of male organs have become increasingly common. Biologists have found evidence of...

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  5. Coming in from the Cold (1991 Video)

    Director
    Peter Ceresole
    Producer
    Peter Ceresole
    Subject
    Law; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The new arms control treaties use science to oversee the end of the Cold War and to check on cheating. Looks at methods of verifing stocks - methods such as fingerprinting a tank and using satellites...

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  6. Pest Wars (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Chris Haws; Sean Morris
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) INCA 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) BBC

    Questions the efficiency of chemical pesticides, which are revealed to be expensive, environmentally unfriendly and ineffective. Reviews the development of biological pest control, looking at current...

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  7. Emerging Viruses (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Bettina Lerner
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Nobel Prizewinner Joshua Lederberg is among those who believe that we have grown too complacent about infectious diseases since the development of antibiotics and the control of diseases such as cholera and...

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  8. Against the Clock (1994 Video)

    Producer
    John Lynch
    Subject
    Health & safety; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Technology has brought round-the-clock civilisation and convenience. Airlines, power stations, and even all-night creches are features of the industrialised world. But for those who keep it running, staying...

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  9. Life is Impossible (1993 Video)

    Producer
    John Lynch
    Subject
    Astronomy; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at theories on the origins of life. When did life begin and did it evolve on earth, in the sea or in space? In 1953, scientists thought that they had found the answer with a recipe for a primordial...

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  10. Day the Earth Melted, The (1991 Video)

    Director
    David Sington
    Producer
    David Sington
    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A volcanic catastrophe 66 million years ago on the west coast of present-day India, thousands of times bigger than anything mankind has ever witnessed, created the spectacular landscape seen there today. The...

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