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  1. Life Cycle of the Tsetse Fly, The (1987)

    Director
    Douglas Fisher
    Subject
    Biology

    Several of the 22 species of testse found in central Africa carry the trypanosome parasites that cause African sleeping sickness in man and ngana in cattle and other domestic animals. The video presents the...

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  2. Is Human Evolution over? (2009)

    Subject
    Biology

    Audio recording from the Darwin College Lecture Series 2009 by Steve Jones. Many people - Darwin included - have claimed that the human species will continue to evolve in the future, as it has in the past....

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  3. Whalevolution

    Director
    Jordan Collver
    Subject
    Natural history

    Animation. This ten minute film shows the evolution of the sperm whale from the amphibious Pakicetus to its present form. After depicting six distinct points in evolutionary history, the film maker, a UK...

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  4. Extinct (2010)

    Director
    Russell Barnes
    Producer
    Alex West
    Subject
    Biology

    A series of six 25-minute television programmes in which palaeontologist Julian Hume and archaeologist Peter Floore search for evidence as to why certain animals became extinct. Using scientific research,...

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  5. Living with Climate Change (2007)

    Subject
    Environmental science

    Global warming is happening. Temperatures have already risen by 0.76 degrees since the industrial revolution and are projected to rise further by 1.8 - 4 degrees by the end of the century. The last time...

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  6. Who Lives? Who Dies? (2011)

    Subject
    Biology

    Why do only certain species survive? How can our growing knowledge of genomes reveal a deeper understanding of life’s cycles and secrets? These are among the topics discussed in this video recording of a...

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  7. Epidemics, Pandemics and How to Control Them (2018)

    Subject
    Medical sciences

    Some infections come in repeated epidemic waves, others are new to human populations. A known human threat such as influenza may mutate or a new infection jumps the species barrier from animals to humans:...

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  8. Schistosomiasis (1990)

    Director
    Douglas Fisher
    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences

    An estimated 200 million people and countless domestic animals in the tropics and sub-tropics suffer from schistosomiasis (bilharzia), and perhaps 400 million others are at risk. The video uses...

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  9. James May’s Twentieth Century (6 Parts) (2007)

    aka: James May’s 20th Century

    Subject
    History; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £39.99

    Documentary series about 20th century innovations. Separate programmes cover worldwide travel and communications, space exploration, how warfare drives ingenuity, emergence of the teenager, and urbanisation.

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  10. Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language (5 Parts) (2009)

    Subject
    Languages; Linguistics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 250 minutes ), $599.95 (set)

    Currently there are more than 6,000 languages spoken around the world. This five-part series traces the history and evolution of language and attendant theories and controversies, while evaluating the scope...

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