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  1. Attenborough: Sixty Years in the Wild (2012)

    Producer
    Miles Barton
    Subject
    Biology; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 175 minutes), £19.99

    Sir David Attenborough has been at the forefront of natural history film-making for over half a century, during which time he has witnessed an unparalleled period of change in the planet’s history. In this...

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  2. Britain’s Meadowlands (2011)

    Director
    Dave Hollis
    Subject
    Environmental science; Natural history
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 29 minutes), £7.19

    Since the Second World War Britain has lost more than 90% of its traditionally managed meadows to development and changes in farming practices. These days attitudes have evolved and the importance of these...

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  3. Our Precious Ponds (2011)

    Subject
    Natural history
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £7.19

    Ponds are an excellent place to explore the natural world. Sadly, many of them have now disappeared because of urban expansion, development and changes in farming practices. This documentary delves into the...

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  4. Steve Jones: Nature, Nurture .... Or Neither? (2011)

    Subject
    Biology; Psychology

    Recording of the Sir David Rivett Memorial Lecture, delivered by geneticist Professor Steve Jones at the CSIRO in Canberra on 13/3/2011 and broadcast on television in Australia, in which he discusses nature...

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  5. Frozen Planet (2011)

    Subject
    Biology; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 420 minutes), £29.99

    The team behind the award-winning nature series PLANET EARTH and BLUE PLANET set their sights on the greatest wildernesses on Earth, the Arctic and Antarctica. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, the seven...

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  6. 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...

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  7. Happy People: A Year in Taiga (2010)

    Director
    Dmitri Vasyukov
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

    A film profiling a year in the lives of the people in the village of Bakhtin along the Yenisei River in Siberian Taiga. Werner Herzog, who narrates the film, edited down the four hour television documentary...

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  8. Olafur Elliasson (2010)

    Director
    Jan Schmidt-Garre
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 90 minutes), £17.99

    A portrait of the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, best known in Britain for his 2003 installation The Weather Project at Tate Modern. The film introduces Eliasson’s work and aesthetic theories as it...

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  9. Uncanny Strangers: Catering for Nature Conservation in Southwest Madagascar (2009)

    Director
    David Picard
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 46 minutes), £50.00

    Filmed in a fishing village in the South-West of Madagascar, UNCANNY STRANGERS provides insight into the relationships between the villagers and various human and non-human ‘strangers’ - ancestor and...

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  10. Encounters in the Natural World (2009)

    Director
    Werner Herzog
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 370 minutes), £44.99

    This five DVD set contains five documentaries by German filmmaker Werner Herzog. In ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (2008) he travels to Antarctica in order to deliver a funny, visually arresting,...

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