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  1. Man at High Altitude (1977 Film)

    Director
    D A Heath
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows how a man acclimatizes and how many animal species adapt to high altitude. Looks at the body build of the Quechua Indians and at their biologically successful life in the Andes, contrasted with the...

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  2. Digging Up Man (1973 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 15 min.

    Professor Barry Cunliffe looks at Danebury Hill Fort, Hampshire, an Iron Age site. Shows how an archaeologist works and what he can deduce from his discoveries. Life at Danebury is reconstructed with the aid...

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  3. Sterile Man (1978 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A comprehensive list of the possible causes of infertility in the male with discussion of the management of some of them. The first part examines all the anomalies which are found in sperm production. The...

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  4. Sand Islands (1977 Film)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A description of the stages (from concept through model to prototype) leading to the production of cheap, stable man-made islands. Shows the prototype construction of an island by hydraulically placing sand...

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  5. View to a Kill, A (1996 Video)

    Director
    Rod Williams
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows the Kelley family of Texas, who exercised a new state right to watch the execution of the man who brutally killed their children Kara and Mark in 1988. Shows their week leading up to the execution,...

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  6. MoliÈre (196 Film)

    Director
    Peter Coltman
    Producer
    Peter Coltman
    Subject
    French studies
    Distribution
    Hire, Film (16mm, 106 minutes)

    Introduction to the life and work of the French dramatist and actor Molière. Using illustrations, his career is traced from fledgling actor to famous playwright and actor-manager. Argues that he was...

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  7. First Man and His Environment (1975 Film)

    Director
    Jean-Pierre Baux
    Subject
    Archaeology; Geology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The Omo palaeontological strata in the Rift Valley, north of Lake Rudolf, Ethiopia, have become the strata of reference for the pliocene and pleistocene periods in Africa. The thickness of the sedimentary...

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  8. Cheers (Problems with Alcohol) (1985 Video)

    Director
    Michael Paul
    Producer
    Michael Paul
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 35 min.

    A drama (with a professional cast) in which a middle-aged man visits his doctor with symptoms which the doctor immediately suspects to be those of incipient alcoholism. The doctor is right: the man has a bad...

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  9. Birds of a Feather (1984 Film)

    Producer
    Simon Trevor
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shot in East Africa, an account of the most numerous bird in the world, the red-billed quelea, and its fight for survival. African governments and international agencies have destroyed millions of quelea to...

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  10. Man and Animal (1995 Video)

    Director
    Antony Thomas
    Producer
    Antony Thomas
    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Explores peoples relationship with other animals - from love and devotion to cruelty and greed. Shows a multiple sclerosis sufferer who is totally dependent on her dog, a paraplegic who relies on his rhesus...

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