A most provocative documentary telling the story of Tadesse Meskela and his struggle to keep his 74,000 Ethiopian coffee farmers from Western exploitation.
'Exposing the truth behind each...
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Eight 50-minute documentaries revealing the awsome forces of nature and their effects on our planet, contained in an attractive library presentation slipcase.
Angry Earth
Avalanches
El...
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Three documentaries revealing some awsome forces of nature and their effects on our planet, contained in an attractive library slipcase.
Volcanoes - 50 mins
Avalanches - 50 mins
Planet...
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A set of 8 excellent 50-minute documentary programmes presented in an attractive presentation slip case.
The eight programme themes are:
Extreme...
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Three 50-minute documentaries from the full NATURE'S FURY set, presented in an attractive slip case.
The programmes included are:
Tornadoes
Hurricanes
Landslide
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Three DVDs are included in this excellent value boxed set dealing with the causes and effects of major natural phenomena around the world:
FEROCIOUS FLOODS:
The fury of nature unleashed with...
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David Attenborough presents a hard-hitting documentary series on the extinction crisis many scientists believe is beginning to threaten the integrity of the entire biosphere.
With a combination of...
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An exploration of the diverse and unique wildlife that inhabits the vast South American continent - a land of great extremes, stretching from the Antarctic to the Equator with the planet's greatest...
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Stunning documentary following scientists around the world - at the bottom of the ocean, in an active volcano, high in the Himalayas etc - as they explain the story of the Earth.
Aubrey Manning...
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A landmark BBC series, in which Dr Iain Stewart tells the story of how our planet works and how, over the course of 4.6 billion years, it came to be the remarkable planet it is today.
Examining...
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The geological factors which have altered the face of our planet are examined in this intriguing documentary film from The Discovery Channel.
From the heights of Mount Everest, through the molten...
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This programme investigates three of the most powerful forces that our planet experiences: earthquakes, avalanches and volcanoes, focusing on the research undertaken to alert mankind to future...
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The avalanche is one of the most frightening and destructive forces of nature, with over a million cascading down the world's mountains each year. In parts of Europe, whole communities live under...
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Landslides kill more people and cost us more money than all of the other natural disasters combined. From the Discovery Channel, this DVD investigates the main reasons for them.
Geologists and...
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Around the world, volcanoes are heating up at an alarming rate. Many scientists believe that this activity is more than a coincidence and that we may be on the verge of a series of cataclysmic...
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We look at some extreme examples of nature unleashing itself through earthquakes, hurricanes and volcanic eruptions and set out to understand why they occurred and how we can measure, predict and...
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An exploration of the world's harshest living conditions.
This programme from The Discovery Channel also looks at some of the world's most adaptable animals and plants as they struggle to...
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Investigates man's attempts to tunnel into the centre of the Earth.
The adaptable creatures which make their home within this blistering inferno are also featured in this documentary from the...
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The complexity of its causes and effects has led meteorologists to regard El Nino as the biggest weather phenomenon on the planet.
In 1982/83 it was responsible for over 3000 deaths....
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A film made for BBCtv on the catastrophe of Boxing Day 2004 which left devastation throughout South Asia. Focusing on Phuket, we hear from the families and tourists who were there and the volunteers...
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An investigation of the ocean's currents, winds and weather systems.
Oceans are dangerous and threatening but at the same time beautiful and appealing. Are the ice caps melting? Is the planet...
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As we journey to the world's coldest places, we find a diverse variety of life that defies the elements in this programme from the Discovery Channel.
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We follow the U.S. Geological Survey group on a trip to Alaska to explore it's phenomenal, mountain-high glaciers.
This exciting experience also teaches the differences in glacier types, their...
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Breathtaking filming techniques and stunning computer graphics immerse us in the very heart of the elements as we experience the wildest the weather can become.
In this innovative and immensely...
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Paul Hudson recalls sixty years of the best and the worst of northern weather with dramatic pictures and eyewitness accounts.
Including the blizzards of 1947, the coastal floods of 1953, the...
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Tornadoes, thunderstorms, lightning and other forms of extreme weather provide the focus for this DVD.
The stormchasers section takes us with a group as they come face to face with several...
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With winds of up to 300 mph, a Tornado can turn a piece of straw into a lethal projectile capable of piercing tree trunks.
With live action footage and state of the art animation, this informative...
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An evolutionary journey through tropical rainforests and all the diversity of life these natural wonders have to offer.
From insects and mammals to the birds of the tree canopy, we meet the...
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Three thousand miles from the mouth of the Amazon, along the base of the towering Andes, lies the Manu Biosphere Reserve - the world's largest and most pristine rainforest.
Stunning aerial and...
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A double Oscar winning wake-up call for the planet from Al Gore, the self-deprecating former US presidential candidate, who takes us through the science of global warming and climate change in plain...
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With a core temperature of 30 million degrees, the Sun is the power plant of our solar system. It explodes with the force of a million H-bombs every second.
From the Big Ben Observatory, the...
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Apocalyptic weather reigns on other planets in our solar system but until now has never been experienced by man.
Planet Storm explores Mars' raging dust storms, Jupiter's Great Red Spot and the...
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Hundreds of tons of space debris, most of it microscopic particles, fall to Earth every day. But a fireball the size of a football pitch could land here too.
An impact 65 million years may have...
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This landmark David Attenborough series presents the most comprehensive portrait of the natural world ever seen on television.
From the high Himalayan valleys to the depths of the ocean and from...
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Leonardo DiCaprio presents this thought-provoking documentary about the fragile state of our planet's ecosystems and the dangers we face from climate change.
We've seen the devastating effects of...
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A stunning television experience from the BBC which captures rare action, impossible locations, and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest and most elusive creatures. Prepare to be...
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In this BBC/Open University co-production, Sir David Attenborough undertakes a personal journey to discover how global warming is changing the planet he knows so well.
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A shocking wake-up call that is set to do for energy what Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' did for the environment.
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