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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Looks at the Dolgellau gold belt in Wales, discusses the geological conditions which have produced gold deposits, examines different methods of extraction and looks at some commercial operators.
Story of Will White from Dorset, one of thousands of amateur prospectors who rushed to the Klondike river in northern Canada in 1996 in search of gold, gleaned from his letter home. Also tells of colourful...
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