Jim Al-Khalili

Jim Al-Khalili travels through Syria, Iran, Tunisia and Spain to tell the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries.

Join two youngsters and their teacher as they discover clues to Dinosaurs: Puzzles from the Past. Putting dinosaurs in perspective is their first task. They follow a time line back from the Age of Man to the era of dinosaurs. Animation introduces a variety of dinosaurs and their environment. Students see fossilized dinosaur bones uncovered by excavators at Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada. They also visit a paleontologist in his lab and see a comparison of bones from two different dinosaurs. At a museum in Ottawa the two youngsters see a full-scale reconstructed tyrannosaur skeleton and identify it as a meat-eater by its feet and teeth.

POLICE OFFICER JIM BYRNE, Canada's most honoured Safety Education Specialist brings you his famous TEN RULES, with which he has personally tested more than 25,000 students.  Learn key strategies now taught in many schools and used by police working with the full NEVER BE A VICTIM Institutional Study Program.  Develop your own personal streetproofing skills so you can train and test your family. Robert Gordon, who created this remarkable program in partnership with Metropolitan Police introduces this family video library against a backdrop of today's troubled society.  TEACHING LIFE SKILLS FOR A SAFER COMMUNITY  OFFICER JIM'S TEN RULES FOR STREETPROOFING  • STRANGER MYTHS  • ABDUCTION  • BEING FOLLOWED  • DANGEROUS PLACES  • AVOIDING CARS AND VANS  • GOOD TOUCHING-BAD TOUCHING

An educational film that instructs people on how to survive atomic bombs and the radiation they emit while following a family facing nuclear attack who calmly prepare for the aftermath. Shows the various modes of Civil Defense that were being developed to protect the American population in the event of a nuclear war.

Employing methods of direct cinema–observation, limited stylization, and non-intervention–this stark look into the State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts shows its denizens, who were often kept in barren cells and infrequently bathed, forced to strip naked publicly, force feeding, and the indifference and bullying by many of the hospital's staff.

Follows the repercussions of the Israeli Security Wall and Settlement expansion in the engulfed/annexed Palestinian farming communities of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, examining the grassroots resistance movement that sprang up against it. An interminable road trip across hard and liquid borders, across a terrain that is being erased as it is being traversed.

Tractor Ted visits two farms, one is a cow dairy and the other is a sheep dairy!  He meets the amazing forage harvester which is very busy making silage from the grass and the maize, singalong to the harvesting song.  Les forgets something rather important - what can it be?

Where does our bread come from?  A trip to Tractorland shows us the ploughing, seeding and harvesting of the corn that is made into flour to make bread.  Fantastic scenes of some great machines at work.

A basic explanation of the purpose and process of menstruation, told largely with diagrams.