British Universities Film & Video Council

moving image and sound, knowledge and access

Results

1-10 of 51 results | Page 1 of 6
« First
‹ Prev12345Next ›
Last »
Sort results by
  1. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2019)

    Director
    Bill Morrison
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 121 minutes), £10.76

    Named as one of the best films of 2017 by more than 100 critics worldwide, this film tells the true story of a long-lost collection of over 500 nitrate film prints dating from the early 1900s found buried in...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  2. Aberfan: The Green Hollow (2016)

    Subject
    Literature

    A film poem commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, performed by Michael Sheen, Jonathan Pryce, Sian Phillips, Eve Myles and Iwan Rheon. [60 minutes]

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other Online Online
  3. Data Mining: Big Data’s Increasing Challenge and Payoff (2012)

    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 20 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    Although the process of data mining is not new, it has become a more significant part of ICT infrastructure in recent times. This film explores the nature of data mining as well as some of the key uses. It...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  4. Global Ideas: Forests (2011)

    Subject
    Geography; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    This film contains four case studies, each looking at a certain aspect of forests. Part 1 looks at Brazil’s tropical rainforests; Part 2 looks at ways in which farmers are combating desertification in...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  5. Miners’ Hymns, The (2011)

    Producer
    Bill Morrison
    Subject
    History; Music; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £16.00

    This elegy, in film and music, to the coal mining history of north east England, is the product of a collaboration between filmmaker Bill Morrison and musician and composer Johann Johannson. Collaged from...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  6. Glengowla (2010 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 36 minutes), £12.95

    Glengowla lead mine near Oughterard, County Galway in Ireland started in 1851 and mining was suspended in 1865. During that short 14 year period, "160 square fathoms" was stopped to produce 390 tonnes of...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  7. Blood in the Mobile (2010)

    Director
    Frank Piasecki Poulsen
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £5.99

    Documentary about the connection between mobile phones and the civil war in the Congo. Conflict between the various armed groups is financed by the sale of minerals needed for the manufacture of cell phones....

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  8. Surviving Aberfan (2008)

    Director
    Steve Humphries
    Subject
    History; Social Studies

    Documentary about the Aberfan disaster in south Wales in October 1966. The people of Aberfan tell their stories of tragic loss, miraculous survival and heroic rescue. [60 minutes]

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other Online Online
  9. Coming Home to Banaba (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Jeremy Cooper
    Subject
    Geography; Sociology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    People who used to live on the tiny Pacific island of Banaba return to see the devastation wrought by 80 years of phosphate mining. Once a British colony, Banaba was a source of the phosphate that fertilised...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
  10. Nenthead Lead Mines (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 18 min., 1998 sale: £9.87 (inclusive)

    Looks at old mineshafts in the area around Nenthead in Cumbria. Shows surface views of buildings and the smelt mill wheelpit, and then goes underground.to show an underground horse-whim chamber, various...

    DVD Find DVD Find Other Other To order To order
1-10 of 51 results | Page 1 of 6
« First
‹ Prev12345Next ›
Last »
Sort results by