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  1. State of the Universe, The (2017)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Film

    Our universe was created in ‘The Big Bang’ and has been expanding ever since. In this public lecture, Professor Brian Schmidt, from the Department of Physics at University of Oxford, describes the vital...

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  2. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)

    Director
    Brannon Braga
    Producer
    Ann Druyan
    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 780 minutes), £19.99

    Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts a reboot of Carl Sagan’s COSMOS, the landmark 1980 PBS series that explored all aspects of the universe. The new version features an upgrade of the Cosmic Calendar,...

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  3. Nova: Fabric of the Cosmos (2012)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 240 minutes), £14.99

    Based on the book by physicist and author Brian Greene, this series of four programmes explores space, time, and the very nature of reality. He explains how our perceptions have fooled us and time may be an...

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  4. Measuring the Universe: From the Transit of Venus to the Edge of the Cosmos (2012)

    Subject
    Astronomy

    This short film explains how the transit of Venus was used in previous centuries to make an accurate measure of the distance to the planets, giving astronomers their first inkling of the true scale of space.

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  5. Final Frontier? Horizon Guide to the Universe (2012)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Space science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    Since 1964, the BBC documentary series HORIZON, has been producing programmes about space science and astronomy, joining scientists as they have probed the secrets of the universe, from the origin of dark...

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  6. Wonders of the Universe (2011)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 233 minutes), £19.99

    Professor Brian Cox follows up his WONDERS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM series with this look at the universe; a series to answer some of the fundamental questions of existence. Tracing our origins from before the...

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  7. Stephen Hawking Collection, The (2011)

    Director
    Martin Williams
    Subject
    Physics; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £15.99

    This 3 DVD set includes two series: STEPHEN HAWKING’S GRAND DESIGNS and INTO THE UNIVERSE WITH STEPHEN HAWKING. In GRAND DESIGNS Hawking attempts to unravel the truth behind humanity’s most enduring...

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  8. Stephen Hawking’s Universe (2010)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 174 minutes (DVD) 240 minutes (Blu-ray)), £24.99

    Series of six programmes in which Professor Stephen Hawking considers topics in cosmology. 1: Explores mathematics and how it revolutionised our view of the universe. Covers Ptolemy’s theory of the motion...

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  9. Higgs Boson (2010)

    Subject
    Physics

    In 1964 Peter Higgs had a big idea about the mystery of how matter in the universe got its mass. This question has such an important place in physics that well over one billion pounds is being spent in the...

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  10. Horizon: Is Everything we Know About the Universe Wrong? (2010)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    Cosmology fights a constant battle to describe, analyse and simply comprehend our universe - a thing of unimaginable size and astonishing complexity, governed by forces impossible to recreate on Earth. The...

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