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Volcanologist Professor Tamsin Mather, winner of the 2017 Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture, explores some of the different types of volcanic activity that we see on Earth today and have seen over our...
This DVD explores the environmental and human cause of the Tewkesbury flood in 2007, looking at runoff, infiltration rates and the factors affecting storm hydrographs. First hand accounts from residents and...
This short (15 minute) introductory documentary, shot in November 2011 in Ishinomaki, Japan, looks at how the recovery from the Tsunami earlier that year is going. During a trip to Ishinomaki in November,...
This programme reveals the untold story of the 87-day battle to kill the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout a mile beneath the waves, a crisis that became America’s worst environmental disaster. Engineers and...
A collection of ten health and safety films. 1. TAKING LIBERTIES: A FATAL ERROR. In 1989 a British Midland plane crashed into the embankment of the M1 near Kegworth in Leicestershire with the loss of 47...
Tailor-made to fit UK specifications, this resource was filmed in Bangladesh and emphasises contemporary thinking about hazard events. The personal accounts of those living on Bangladesh’s charland (the...
Filmmaker Spike Lee returns to New Orleans, the scene of his post-Katrina documentary WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS (2006). On this occasion, he focuses mainly on the BP disaster, from the...
Described as an "eco-comedy", the message of HOW TO BOIL A FROG is, in fact, deadly serious. The film is about "overshoot" - too many people, using up too few resources, too quickly. Featuring contributions...
Originally scheduled for broadcast on April Fool’s Day 1977 but delayed until June due to industrial action, ALTERNATIVE 3 was a controversial hoax documentary in the vein of Orson Welles’s radio...
Documentary about the environmental impact of the huge quantity of waste generated by old and obsolete computer hardware and peripherals. Much of the west’s electronic waste ends up illegally in China. In...
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