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  1. Think Twice: To Provide or to Enable (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 21 min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

    Critically reviews the history of government intervention in the housing sector over the previous 30 years. Exposes the misconceptions behind these interventions and the negative impact they have had on the...

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  2. Hidden Homeless (1988 Video)

    Director
    Glenn Ellis
    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 16 min.

    Uses a drama-documentary following the stuggle of a young women in her search for shelter to look at homelessness and the effects of the new housing bill.

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  3. Nuclear Scare Stories of the Cold War (2004)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 115 minutes), £12.99

    A compilation of chilling civil defence films from the 1950s and 1960s, instructing American citizens how to survive if a nuclear war broke out.

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  4. Octopus, The (1968 Film)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The octopus is seen in its natural habitat seeking shelter and changing colour with the background; catching prey, fighting its enemies and using its ink-sac in escape. In the second section, courtship...

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  5. Chernobyl Accident, The: Chronicle of the Shelter Construction (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Vladimir Kuznetsov
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 10 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 1986, a concrete ‘sarcophagus’ was built to contain the stricken fourth reactor unit at the power station. Reveals that experts are now increasingly...

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  6. World of Architecture, A

    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 23 minutes), £29.95

    Practical and visual, architecture provides shelter and enriches our lives. Students learn how technology - from stone on stone to steel and glass to inflatable buildings - has been used to shape our public...

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  7. Leaving Home1 (1986 Video)

    Director
    Beryl Richards
    Producer
    Gillian Brown
    Subject
    History; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Part of a video-based resource pack. Follows four young people in a band and how they find somewhere to live. Each person has a different problem.

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  8. Rammed Earth Renaissance, The (1998)

    Subject
    Engineering; History
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (NTSC, 45 minutes), $29.95

    From the beginning of history, every civilization from the Assyrians to the Zunis has used earth to create beautiful, durable, and affordable shelter. Author, engineer and earth builder David Easton hosts...

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  9. Art of Henry Moore, The (2004)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), £19.99

    Archive photographs from the collection at the Henry Moore Foundation complement the artworks, newly filmed across Britain, in France and the USA. Many of the artist’s most significant sculptures are...

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  10. Biology of Spiders. No. 10: Capture of Prey and Mating: ‘Theridion Saxatile’ (1965 Film)

    Director
    E R Skinner; G H Thompson
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    'Theridion saxatile’ lives in a shelter above a super-structure which supports numerous lines running down to the ground. The vertical lines are only sticky where they touch the ground and the snare is...

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