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NoS Summary - Mr W Reid Dick at work and the result of his labours. British Pathe synopsis: "Meet Mr W Reid Dick, the famous Sculptor of the Kitchener Memorial, (St. Paul’s) and the Lion on the Menin Gate,...
Explores the evidence of a widespread early civilisation based primarily on human cooperation. Includes the caves of Paleolithic France, the subterranean temples of Neolithic Malta, the mysterious earthworks...
Leading actors perform some of Shakespeare’s greatest speeches in a video series to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. Riz Ahmed speaks Edmund’s soliloquy from the start of Act I,...
Documents the last performance of the ritual for the fertility goddess Amb Kor. Shot over a period of 15 years, the anthropologists/filmmakers have been participant-observers durng a time of pivotal change...
Documentary which tells how Indian craftsmen, directed by sculptor Nemai Chandra Pal came to London, to construct a giant tableau of the goddess, Durga, and her family in the Great Court of the British...
Demonstrates how in Bali, development projects can threaten a carefully balanced ecological irrigation system that is maintained by religious authorities. A biologist and an anthropologist look at the...
Examines the Dr James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis which argues that life itself actively controls the environment to enhance its own chances of survival and that the earth an all living things upon it are...
John Romer explores the influence of ancient eastern civilisations. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, in what now is Iraq, were rumoured to be part of the palace of Nebuchadnezzar. Today, scientists believe...
Science and Surrealism, ancient myths, Buddhism and feminism are among the frameworks of ideas important to Liliane Lijn’s art. In Paris at the end of the 1950s, in Greece and New York, and in England...
Umbanda is a syncretic religious movement, combining elements from orthodox Catholicism, with submerged African and indigenous Indian spiritual beliefs. In spite of past attempts to suppress it, it...
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