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  1. Mustine (2017)

    Subject
    Chemistry; Medical sciences

    Podcast. This programme explains how the use of sulfur mustard, or mustard gas - a blister-causing agent used as a weapon during World War I - led to some of the earliest trials for anti-cancer drugs. [7...

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  2. Secret Science: Chemical and Biological Weapons (2016)

    Director
    Tim Usborne
    Subject
    Biology; Chemistry
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    Documentary film about Porton Down, the British military and scientific base that specialises in chemical and biological warfare and the fight against global terrorism. The top-secret British military unit...

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  3. Coming War on China, The (2016)

    Director
    John Pilger
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 130 minutes), £17.99

    John Pilger directs this documentary about a potential nuclear war between the United States of America and China. Pilger makes the case that, though the media are unlikely to tell you so, these two rival...

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  4. Garwin (2014)

    Director
    Richard Breyer; Anand Kamalakar
    Subject
    Physics; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 67 mins), $89

    GARWIN chronicles the life and work of physicist Dr. Richard Garwin, who served as an advisor to every president since Eisenhower. Given primary focus are his career in government research and advising. The...

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  5. Cold War, Hot Jets (2013)

    Director
    Simon Winchcombe
    Producer
    Simon Winchcombe
    Subject
    Engineering; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £34.99

    Britain emerged from the Second World War in financial crisis, but one technological innovation provided hope for the future: a world-leading jet aviation industry. During the Cold War, the jet engine became...

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  6. Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (2013)

    Director
    Oliver Stone
    Producer
    Oliver Stone
    Subject
    American Studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 581 minutes), £19.50

    Ten-part documentary series directed and produced by Oliver Stone and co-written by Stone and historian Peter Kuznick. The series looks back at human events that at the time went under-reported, but that...

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  7. Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War (2012)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.99

    On October 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy informed the world that the Soviet Union was building secret missile bases on the island of Cuba, 90 miles off the shores of Florida. The events of the next 13...

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  8. Countdown to Zero (2011)

    Director
    Lucy Walker
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £9.99

    Leading politicians and political analysts including Jimmy Carter, Tony Blair, Valerie Plame Wilson, Mikhail Gorbachev and Zbigniew Brzezinski discuss the threat posed by nuclear weapons in the 21st century...

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  9. Two Versions of Hell (2008)

    Director
    James T Hong
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 27 minutes), $295.00

    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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  10. Government Inspector, The (2005)

    Subject
    Drama; Media studies; Politics & government

    Drama telling the story of Dr David Kelly, an expert caught between the government and the BBC over the war in Iraq. THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR is based on extensive original research and was written and...

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