Geography DVDs |  The geography curriculum involves the study of people, places and environments around the planet. Video has the ability to bring geography to life as no other resource can. Noisy Planet scours the world for films that will educate and inspire in equal measure. The geography range includes: · Films that bring to life the environmental issues faced by humanity as we strive to achieve sustainability · Films that drill down into some of the topical population issues around the world · Films that provide an insight into a selection of countries around the world and the lives of the people who live there. | |
| |  | The future of water is the future of humankind. How water will run in our societies will determine the future of our environment, power relations, the balance between rich and poor, war and peace and the destinies of countries and continents. These are the issues raised in "The Future of Water".
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| |  | The future of water is the future of humankind. How water will run in our societies will determine the future of our environment, power relations, the balance between rich and poor, war and peace and the destinies of countries and continents. These are the issues raised in "The Future of Water".
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| |  | The future of water is the future of humankind. How water will run in our societies will determine the future of our environment, power relations, the balance between rich and poor, war and peace and the destinies of countries and continents. These are the issues raised in "The Future of Water".
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| |  | This DVD tells the stories of five girls and three boys, aged 8 to 16, who live in the coastal areas of India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Each was affected by the Asian Tsunami of December 2004, losing loved ones, their home or their belongings. Their stories of survival, courage and resilience give an insight into the long and arduous journey back to normalcy for millions of Asians affected by one of the worst natural disasters of all time. Along the way, we also probe what happened to the massive volume of donations the world pledged to help the survivors.
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| |  | Europe is home to five million illegal immigrants. 500,000 more arrive each year. This programme looks at the living conditions of these men, women and children who live without papers, insurance and other things that we take for granted. Difficult questions are raised because Europe’s agriculture, catering and health service sectors would simply not be able to function without them. The film includes footage from the UK, Germany, Spain and China plus a well-made reconstruction of the Morecambe Bay cockle-picking tragedy.
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| |  | Large tranches of the Arctic ice cap are melting. For the first time it is possible to sail all the way around the islands of Svalbard – the world’s most northerly civilisation. These islands provide the best demonstration of how global warming is affecting Arctic wildlife. The film-maker’s journey around these harsh coasts brings him uncomfortably close to the polar bears that are starving as their hunting grounds melt away. We also meet walruses, polar foxes and many birds, all of which are feeling the climatic changes.
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| |  | As we come to the end of the Oil Age, there is a general acceptance that the next era of human existence will have to be powered by renewable energy sources. This level-headed, non-cranky analysis examines how the three key alternative energy sources - solar, wind and biomass - are being developed for everyday applications and how they point the way towards genuine energy sustainability for future generations.
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| |  | Ein el-Helweh is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. It is notorious as a violent and lawless place where there is daily conflict between Fatah and militant Islamic groups linked to Al-Qaeda. With unparalleled access, this film shows the daily life of the people who live there - their jobs, their pastimes, their children's education, the radicalisation of some of the number, the frustrations of ghetto life and their dream of one day returning to their homeland.
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| | _.jpg) | Swaziland has the highest proportion of AIDS infection in the world. More than 40% of the population is HIV-positive and average life expectancy is just 32 years. SWAPOL (Swaziland Positive Living) is a women’s organisation that challenges the victimisation and discrimination of HIV-infected women in the country’s rural communities. This presents its own difficulties in an undemocratic country where the king is suspicious of any form of activism. The film follows the women who devote their lives to SWAPOL, working to help their community in its time of crisis.
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| |  | Does the presence of news cameras in war zones such as Palestine actually prompt the violence? This film follows two cameramen whose pictures bring the horror of the Arab-Israeli conflict into our homes. Alon Bernstein is an Israeli who works as a freelance news cameraman for broadcasters including the Associated Press. His close friend is Jimmy Michael, a Palestinian who works principally for the BBC. Their job is to film the pictures that we see on our evening news.
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| |  | Five years after filming Primetime War 1, we return to the Palestinian and Israeli cameramen filming the conflict for the daily TV around the world. In the interim, the situation has degenerated into a real war - a war in which cameramen are injured and killed. Primetime War II focussed more closely on the day-to-day newsgathering process.
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| |  | Many of India’s lowest caste, the Untouchables, work as debt slaves for members of higher castes. These are people who have in the past borrowed a sum of money, for instance to pay for a wedding or a funeral, that they have no realistic hope of ever paying back - many find it impossible even to find out how much they owe. They are doomed to work unpaid for the lender in perpetuity. This film looks at the injustice of the system and the work of activists to liberate the victims from their slavery.
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| |  | In the 1920s PCBs were considered to be wonder-materials. Their fire resistance, electrical insulation and ability to make other materials more pliable led to use in countless applications. They were routinely used in hydraulic fluids, paint, ceiling tiles, Linoleum, electrical components, concrete, railway sleepers and domestic white goods. But in the 1970s PCBs were found to have leaked into the environment and entered the food chain, where they were wreaking a devastating effect on animal and human organisms around the world. They were banned, but it was too late. PCBs do not simply disappear and they continue to cause harm to this day.
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| |  | Mount Saint Valentin, the highest mountain in Patagonia, is difficult to access and swept by constant storms. This film records the efforts of scientists to drill and remove an ice core filled with valuable information about climate change. For two years French and Chilean glaciologists battled with the elements in this hostile environment in order to extract their precious ice samples. This DVD brings to life the excitement of practical science in the real world.
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| |  | This is Lin Sutherland’s journey to look for the planet’s tallest trees on the island of Tasmania. Unfortunately she is not alone in this search - it’s a race against the massive and relentless wood chipping industry. Can Lin locate these ‘living legends’ before the woodcutters bring them down? Our forests depend on the cycle of growth, decay and renewal for survival but this is now threatened by logging, mining and cattle grazing.
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| |  | The Arctic sea ice is melting. The global climate is growing steadily warmer and in the Arctic this process is proceeding twice as fast as in the rest of the world. At the current rate climatologists expect the Arctic to be completely ice-free as early as 2050. This DVD shows the importance of the ice to the animals who live there especially the seal, which relies on it to give birth and to rest, and the polar bear which roams the ice searching for seals.
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| |  | Waterman’s World follows world famous diver and underwater conservationist Stan Waterman to the planet’s most exotic and beautiful diving locations. Explore an amazing underwater world and swim with hammerhead sharks, giant manta rays, moray eels and many more. As we see these strange creatures we learn about the dangers that threaten these pristine environments and the efforts underway to conserve them.
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| |  | This three-DVD series travels to the wettest and driest places on the planet to examine the challenges that face mankind in managing its water resources. Host Marq de Villiers, a world authority on the subject, undertakes a mammoth quest in an effort to understand the looming world water crisis.
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| |  | This three-DVD series travels to the wettest and driest places on the planet to examine the challenges that face mankind in managing its water resources. Host Marq de Villiers, a world authority on the subject, undertakes a mammoth quest in an effort to understand the looming world water crisis.
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| |  | This absorbing four-DVD series examines the relationship through history between mankind and fresh water. Each programme considers a different aspect of the relationship. The viewer comes away having learned an awful lot about how our development was influenced by water-related factors and conscious that no society can survive for as much as day without access to fresh water.
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| |  | This absorbing four-DVD series examines the relationship through history between mankind and fresh water. Each programme considers a different aspect of the relationship. The viewer comes away having learned an awful lot about how our development was influenced by water-related factors and conscious that no society can survive for as much as day without access to fresh water.
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| |  | This absorbing four-DVD series examines the relationship through history between mankind and fresh water. Each programme considers a different aspect of the relationship. The viewer comes away having learned an awful lot about how our development was influenced by water-related factors and conscious that no society can survive for as much as day without access to fresh water.
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| |  | This absorbing four-DVD series examines the relationship through history between mankind and fresh water. Each programme considers a different aspect of the relationship. The viewer comes away having learned an awful lot about how our development was influenced by water-related factors and conscious that no society can survive for as much as day without access to fresh water.
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| |  | This three-DVD series travels to the wettest and driest places on the planet to examine the challenges that face mankind in managing its water resources. Host Marq de Villiers, a world authority on the subject, undertakes a mammoth quest in an effort to understand the looming world water crisis.
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| |  | This is the dramatic story of the West India Regiment, a regiment of slaves created to defend the interests of the British Empire at the end of the 18th century. In return for their fierce loyalty, soldiers were rewarded with the status of being the first black Britons. This film tells their story from establishment to dissolution, bringing the slave trade to life in this anniversary year.
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| |  | This is the shocking story of how the big oil companies sought huge profits by adding lead to petrol from the 1920s onwards in full knowledge of its negative effect on health and despite the existence of healthier alternatives such as bio-fuel. Although lead made petrol more efficient, it had been known to be poisonous since Roman times. The hundreds of thousands of tons of lead that have been spread around the world can be proven to have impaired the brain function of millions around the world.
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