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  1. In the Shadow of the Moon (2008)

    Director
    David Sington
    Subject
    Astronomy; History; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

    This simple, stylish look at the Apollo space program is a quietly powerful rumination on the nature of patriotism, heroism, and humanity. Director David Sington utilises a narrator-less structure that...

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  2. Man Who Moved Mountains, The (1992 Video)

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

    The story of pioneering scientist Harold Wellman, who, on arriving in New Zealand in 1931 to search for gold, observed that the the earth’s crust is fluid and is constantly moving. His ideas were rejected...

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  3. Man Who Made Up His Mind, The (1994 Video)

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

    Looks at Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman’s biological theory of the mind, which see the brain not as an information processing machine but as an evolving ecosystem of competing groups of cells. In his...

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  4. Hitler’s Bomb (1992 Video)

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

    In 1939, as Europe perpared for war, the Nazis led the world in the race for the atomic bomb. Yet six years later it was the Americans who dropped the first nuclear bomb. Did scientific errors rob Hitler of...

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  5. 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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