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Truth About Climate Change, The (2008)

aka: Are Changing Planet Earth?/ Can we Save Planet Earth?

Subject

Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £15.99

A two-part television documentary presented by Sir David Attenborough who explores just how far climate change is altering our planet, from drought-stricken rainforest to declining polar bears, from flooded...

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Stem Nematode, The: A Pest in Agriculture (1979 Film, Video)

Director

Chris C Doncaster

Subject

Agriculture; Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The stem nematode ‘Ditylenchus dipsaci’ causes serious yield losses in temperate regions. Being resistant to drought it is often distributed on seed. Control with chemicals is expensive, but the use of...

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Environment 1 (1999 Video)

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale - see BEYOND RED, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., See: BEYOND RED

Three 8-minute films: 1) THE CIVIL ENGINEER: The story of one man’s efforts to restore a water supply to the farmers of Armenia’s Karat province. The death of communism led to a breakdown in the water...

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Hamar Trilogy, The (3 Parts) (1990 Video)

Producer

Joanna Head; Jean Lydall

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £585.00

The Hamar people are an isolated people living in the dry scrubland of south-western Ethiopia. These programmes concentrate on the proud and outspoken Hamar women. 1 (1990): A young widow, an unmarried girl...

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Tuareg, The (1972 Film, Video)

Director

Charlie Nairn

Producer

Charlie Nairn

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Follows a group of Tuareg living high up in the Hoggar Mountains, at the foot of Tahat, the highest mountain in Algeria. Details, after some introductory descriptive material about Tuareg social life, the...

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West, The (4 Parts) (1996 Video)

Director

Ken Burns; Steve Ives

Producer

Ken Burns; Steve Ives

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, 4 videocassettes. VHS. b&w/col. 180, 180, 192, 210 min., 2000 sale: £16.99 (inclusive) each

Eight-part television series using photographs, newsreels, journals, music, diaries and artifacts to relate the history of the American West from 1500 to 1914. On four videocassettes: 1) The People...

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Great Depression, The (2 Parts)

Subject

Economics; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 30, 28 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

A two-part series on The Great Depression.

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Stem Cells: The Promise (2005)

aka: Curing the Incurable/ How to Live Forever

Director

David Malone

Producer

David Paterson

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 100 minutes), £15.99

STEM CELLS: THE PROMISE consists of two documentaries made for Channel 4’s "Equinox" series. The first part, BEGINNINGS, (originally broadcast in 1999 under the the title CURING THE INCURABLE) is an...

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