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- http://publicdomainmovies.net/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Lists, Streaming/Download
This site offers a significant archive of films which are in the public domain and so can be downloaded for free. The site is organised into five categories: Feature Films, Comedy, Drama & Romance, Science Fiction & Horror, and Cartoons. Searching is not supported so the site is a bit hard to navigate.
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- https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/
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- Science and Technology
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- Design, Engineering, Technology
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- Film/Video
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Set up by The James Dyson Foundation, the award operates in 27 countries, and is open to university level students and recent graduates studying product design, industrial design and engineering. It recognises and rewards imaginative design solutions to global problems with the environment in mind. The Awards website includes short videos of this year’s entries and past winners with demonstrations of how the actual product works. Amongst the 2018 winners are: kitchenware for the blind, a prosthetic leg system, furniture for flooding, a semi-automatic Malaria diagnosis device and a wheelchair for air journeys.
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- https://thewhy.dk/whypoverty/
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- Social Sciences
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- Development Studies, Economics, Education, Food, Geography, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
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A collection of eight documentaries and 34 short films, all accessible for free via the Why Poverty website. The films address eight difficult questions: How do you change the world; How much inequality is too much; What does an education get you; Is it worse to be born poor than to die poor; How do you feed the world; Are women better at getting out of poverty than men; Do we know what poverty is; How much profit is fair. Why Poverty is an initiative of The Why Foundation, which is a non-profit organisation that produces and distributes factual public media projects to promote independent information on key global issues. Other documentary series produced so far include: Why Democracy and Why Women.
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- https://thewhy.dk/whywomen/
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- Social Sciences
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- Social Studies, Women’s Studies
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- Film/Video
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A collection of films aimed to raise awareness of girls’ and women’s health, rights and wellbeing worldwide. There are four documentaries and ten short films, all accessible for free; also learning materials, including articles and facts. Why Women? is an initiative of The Why Foundation, which is a non-profit organisation that produces and distributes factual public media projects to promote independent information on key global issues. Other documentary series produced so far include: Why Democracy and Why Poverty.
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- https://www.countrysideclassroom.org.uk/
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- Bio-Medical, Social Sciences
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- Agriculture, Education, Environmental Studies, Food
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- Film/Video
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- Courses, Information Sources, Lists, Organisations, Streaming/Download, Web Links
The aim of this organisation is to promote the best educational resources in food, farming and environment in the UK. The website contains a wide range of content gathered from a significant variety of contributors. Resources can be searched by Key stage/Age, Curriculum Subject, Theme, Type and Format. The Multimedia option offers a selection of videos and short films on subjects including how the agricultural industry works, careers in horticulture, the use of medicines in livestock production, the importance of plant breeding and the process of bread production in the UK.
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- http://fungi.myspecies.info/
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- Bio-Medical
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- Botany, Environmental Studies, General Science, Nature
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- Film/Video
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The importance of fungi for all aspects of life on Earth and the size of the fungi kingdom, which is six times larger than the kingdom of plant species, makes research in this little studied field crucial: for example, last year a new species of fungi was discovered in Pakistan which is capable of digesting and breaking down plastic; this could be a part of the solution to the global challenge of clearing plastic in oceans and on the land. The Fungi and Lichens website provides technical (but approachable) accounts of the current status of species in the British Isles, including descriptions, images, distribution data, ecology and conservation information. It is aimed at those with a serious interest in fungi, either as natural historians or professional biologists. The project is run by the Mycology Department at Kew Gardens who has just published the 2018 State of the World’s Fungi report.
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- https://cosmicshambles.com/
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- Science and Technology
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- General Science
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Blogs, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Cosmic Shambles creates and curates entertaining content about the universe through science, art, history, philosophy, music, literature and comedy. The site was borne out of The Incomplete Map of Cosmic Genome, Utter Shambles and Book Shambles online magazines. A selection of the content from them is now available for free via Cosmic Shambles, but to access the entire back catalogue, which includes over 160 films, exclusive interviews and contributions from 150 well-known names in science, a paid subscription is needed. The free content in the Cosmic Shambles site is presented in the form of podcasts, documentaries, interviews and several blogs. The range of subjects covered is impressive. For example, neuroscientist Dr Dean Burnett explains differences in taste (why some of us love jazz and other hate it?); the life and work of physicist Richard Feynman is celebrated in the documentary All Genius, All Buffoon: 100 Years of Richard Feynman; there is also an in-depth interview with plastic surgeon Fiona Wood who invented the ‘spray on skin’ for burns victims.
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- https://www.climatewatchdata.org/
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- Science and Technology
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- Development Studies, Environmental Studies, Nature, Technology
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- Film/Video
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A free online platform designed to provide advanced researchers with the open climate data, visualizations and resources they need to gather insights on national and global progress on climate change. The platform, managed by the World Resource Institute, brings together dozens of datasets for the first time and allows users to analyse and compare the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement, access historical emissions data, discover how countries can leverage their climate goals to achieve their sustainable development objectives, and use models to map new pathways to a lower carbon. The site can be searched by Countries, Economic sector, Nationally Determined Contribution, Global Historical Gas Emissions and Future Scenarios, where users can model projections of emissions.
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- https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/home
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Economics, Politics and Government
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- Film/Video
Founded and directed by Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of Economics, the IIPP is a new UCL institute providing ‘some of the much needed fresh thinking about public policy driven by public purpose’. In partnership with the British Library they are delivering a series of lectures on how the public, private and third sectors need to work together to drive innovation and tackle the market challenges of the 21st century. The lectures are around 90 minutes long and can be accessed free of charge via the British Library’s event page or the IIPP’s YouTube Channel. Lectures delivered so far include, Unlocking Public Value from the Data Revolution, Architectural Agency in the Public Sector, The Public Purse: A Government Budget is Not a Family Budget – and Why This Matters,The Unruly Subject of Urban Neighbourhoods, The Public Value of Care and the Politics of Women’s Work.
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- https://pchrgaza.org/en/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Law
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- Film/Video
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights is an independent legal body dedicated to the protection of human rights in the Gaza Strip. The video section of the PCHR’s website contains short films dating back to 2010 which document and explain the conflict using the information gathered through their work in legal counselling to individuals, promotion of democratic development, monitoring of the status of economic and social rights and legal assistance to women’s groups. Although many of the videos are about the negative impact of Israel’s policies, some are concerned with legislation introduced by the Palestinian Authority. For example, the Palestinian Authority’s Blatant Violations of Freedom of Speech: Cybercrime Law.
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