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Secret Science: Chemical and Biological Weapons (2016)

Director
Tim Usborne

Subject
Biology; Chemistry

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

Documentary film about Porton Down, the British military and scientific base that specialises in chemical and biological warfare and the fight against global terrorism. The top-secret British military unit...
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Fog of War, The (1990 Video)

Director
Mike Rossiter

Producer
Mike Rossiter

Subject
Chemistry; Engineering

Distribution
out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1993 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the history, use, tactics and ethics of chemical warfare. Used in World War 1, phosgene and mustard gas produced such revulsion that their first use was banned in 1925, but 20 countries still...
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Agent Orange: Policy of Poison (1988 Video)

Producer
Katy Ferguson; Rod Iveson; Nina Ward

Subject
Environmental science; History

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min.

Through use of archive and newsreel footage, interviews and narration documents the widepsread use of chemical warfare in South Vietnam between 1961 and 1971. The tape also draws attention to the use of 245T...
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Rabbits Don’t Cry (1983 Film)

Producer
Robin Wallis

Subject
Veterinary science

Distribution
Film (16mm)

Documentary about the increasing militancy of those dedicated to the prevention of experiments on animals and vivisection. Includes footage of a 5000-strong demonstration at Porton Down, the government’s...
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Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare (4 Parts) (1981 Multimedia)

Subject
Medical sciences

Distribution
out of distribution, Audiocassette. 31, 36, 20, 28 min.; 40, 44, 23, 35 slides. col.

Part 1: Types of energy output, fireball, heat, blast, immediate radiation. Medical effects of flash, heat, treatment of burns, blast. Fall-out pattern, decay of radiation, effect of distance, time and...
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Biology at War (1984 Video)

Subject
Technology

Distribution
OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 115 min.

2 (55 min): Explores the history of biological warfare from World War 2 until 1969, when President Nixon renounced American use of biological weapons, and examines current research in the West. Notes that...
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Last Ghost of War, The (2006)

Producer
Pham Quoc Thai; Janet Gardner

Subject
History

Distribution
DVD (Region 2 PAL, 56 minutes), £50.00

The end of the Vietnam War in 1975 did not bring about an end to the suffering of the Vietnamese people. Kevin Kline narrates this documentary which puts a human face on the cost of war: the millions of...
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First World War, The

Subject
History

Distribution
DVD (Region 2 PAL, 597 minutes), £49.99

A 10-part series based on the book by Hew Strachan, Professor of the History of War at Oxford University. Conventional myths of the war as a European conflict are exploded and the human tragedy is placed...
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