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  1. Depending on Heaven (1988 Video)

    Director
    Peter Entell
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Focuses on the Mongols living in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. In two 28-minute parts: 1) follows the life of a nomadic Mongol family on their yearly journey following the herds across north...

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  2. Madame Bovary (1991 Video)

    Director
    Claude Chabrol
    Producer
    Marin Karmitz
    Subject
    French studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 136 minutes), £15.99

    French-language cinema adaptation of the novel by Gustave Flaubert. In 19th-century France the young daughter of a farmer marries a dull doctor ten years her senior and soon becomes bored. She embarks on a...

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  3. From Ashes to Forest (1984)

    Director
    Tony Lanzelo
    Subject
    Agriculture; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 52 minutes), on application

    For centuries the idea of the forest fire as a destructive force has been perpetuated and, where possible, fires have been suppressed in order to protect the environment, the populace and the economy. Filmed...

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  4. Structures 1 (1981 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Simple models and animations are used to illustrate failure modes - three balsa wood structures are loaded to show the effects of buckling of a compression component. A solid beam, a hollow tube and a...

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  5. Structural Components (1990 Video)

    Producer
    Andrew Millington
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Components of structures fail in various ways - under tension, by compression, under shear or by buckling. Simple models and animation are used to illustrate these failure modes. Three balsa wood structures...

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  6. Assault on the Sepik (1974 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 19 min.

    All species of pine trees are susceptible to attack by the wood wasp, ‘Sirex noctillio’. When Sirex was first discovered on the Australian mainland in 1961, the softwood plantations of Southern Australia...

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  7. Disaster 1 (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Davies
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to illustrate large-scale disasters of the 20th century. Covers the sinking of the ‘Titanic’, the Tenerife air crash, the mud-slide in Aberfan in South Wales in...

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  8. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1991)

    Subject
    English language and literature; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 250 minutes), £14.99

    The discovery of Melpham Idol, a pagan phallic figure, in the coffin of a disinterred Bishop becomes the most important archaeological find of the century, a discovery that changes the course of scholarship...

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  9. Unforbidden City, The: Urban Renewal in Modern China (2008)

    Director
    Floris-Jan van Luyn
    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    DVD

    This documentary follows three inhabitants of Source Street, a fourteenth century alley in Beijing, as they wait for the imminent destruction of their homes. Plans for a new park to surround French architect...

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  10. Fireraiser (1987 Film, Video)

    Director
    Trudi Davies; Claire Hunt
    Subject
    Drama; History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A drama-documentary based on a play by Albert Hunt which explores the role played by Sir Arthur (Bomber) Harris in the history of bombing. Intercuts drama, documentary and archive footage to illustrate the...

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