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  1. Megastructures (3 Parts) (2010)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 188 minutes), £19.99

    This three-part series investigates the challenges in terms of design and technology involved in producing some of the greatest triumphs of modern engineering. Using live action, re-creations, archival...

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  2. Voyages of Construction (2010)

    Producer
    Steve Crabtree
    Subject
    Business studies; Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

    Series of three programmes which xamines three extraordinary engineering projects that are all very different but have two things in common: incredibly complex technology; people with highly specialised...

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  3. Nuclear Submarine, A (2010)

    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    Taking fourteen years to design and build and costing around a billion pounds, nuclear submarine the Astute is one of the most technologically advanced and controversial machines in the world. For over a...

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  4. Take One Museum: The Royal Navy Submarine Museum Interactive Broadband Video (2006)

    Subject
    Librarianship; Media studies

    This interactive video is part of a BBC trial to find out more about the delivery of rich video content via broadband, and new ways of interacting with that content. The original 30-minute programme shown on...

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  5. Close Quarters (2002)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (75 min), £14.99 inc

    A 1943 feature-length propaganda documentary about routine British submarine patrols and action in the North Sea off the coast of Norway. Based on a true story, using real Royal Navy submariners as the cast....

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  6. Building the Impossible (2002)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 4 x 50 minutes), £507.00

    A collection of four engineering documentaries looking at how great engineering challenges were overcome in history. A materials scientist and a structural engineer are challenged to recreate a submarine, a...

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  7. Disaster Series 1 (6 Episodes) (1997)

    Producer
    Bryn Higgins
    Subject
    Engineering; Environmental science; Health & safety
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (6 x 30), £195 each or £750 series

    The first series examines six of the world’s most dramatic technological disasters, using original BBC footage, recreations and interviews with key decision-makers. Their powerful and detailed approach...

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  8. Fishermen at War: Atlantic Trawler (1941)

    Director
    Ivan Scott; Frank Sainsbury; J.B. Holmes; Frank Elton
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 63 minutes), £16.33

    War-time documentaries about the dangers faced in the Atlantic by merchant seamen on convoys and the contribution made to the war effort by all civilian seamen. SAILORS WITHOUT UNIFORM (1940) - The lives...

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  9. First World War U-Boat (1919 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 78 min.

    Two newly restored World War 1 films, DER MAGISCHE G‹RTEL ('The Enchanted Circle’) (1917, 44 min), and THE EXPLOITS OF A GERMAN SUBMARINE ('U-35’) OPERATING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN (1919, 34 min). The...

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