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Two of the three films from the Qatsi trilogy. They are cinematic essays on the impact of technological progress on the earth and its peoples, set to scores by Philip Glass. The photographic effects,...
The decision to use English in countries where it is not the first language is controversial. English is often attacked for causing real social and cultural damage. In South Africa, some schools are refusing...
A drama-documentary in which a journalist meets "The Man of Today" who, while a responsible citizen, is disengaged from greater society. He believes once he’s dead nothing more matters!. As an experiment...
This video, taken from the Open University’s A230 Reading and Studying module, looks at how landscapes and communities have influenced some of our most famous poetry. From William Wordsworth’s Daffodils...
Financial historian and writer Professor Niall Ferguson explores Western civilization’s global dominance. Based on Ferguson’s own book, Civilization: The West and the Rest, the six-part documentary looks...
With the publication in 1951 of his best-selling book, "Catcher in the Rye," Jerome David Salinger became one of the fundamental American writers of the Twentieth Century. For reasons that still remain...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the writing of history has changed over time, from ancient epics to medieval hagiographies and modern deconstructions. In the 6th century AD, the bishop of Tours began his...
Director Andrew Neel delves into the personal and professional life of his famous grandmother, painter Alice Neel, in this documentary. Born in 1900, Alice Neel lived an unconventional life as both a single...
Qualitative research provides us with a means to gain a deep description of the lives we study. But entering in a community can be difficult. We have to suspend our own cultural lens while examining the...
This is a multi-award winning documentary about Unit 731, Japan’s secret World War II biological and chemical weapons facility in the Chinese town of Harbin where biological weapons were developed during...
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