Catalog Search Results

Voiced by comedian Clive Anderson, this entertaining romp through the history of English squeezes 1,600 years of history into 10 one-minute clips. Bursting with fascinating facts, the clip collection looks at how English grew from a regional tongue into a major global language before reflecting on the future of English in the 21st century. Video clips include: *Anglo-Saxon: The Angles and the Saxons came up with the everyday words we really needed,...

Blade implements such as axes, swords, and knives have been a part of civilized man's journey since the Paleolithic age roughly two million years ago. In those days, sharp tools were chipped off of flint or obsidian to create knives for skinning hides, cutting vegetation, and hunting animals. With the discovery of metallurgy, people were able to forge stronger, more versatile blade implements out of bronze, iron, and eventually, steel.

Business Culture: India uses a Q&A format to teach the basics of doing business in India. Understanding cultural differences is key to participating in the global economy. Topics include language, attire, and etiquette.

Business Culture: Chin uses a Q&A format to teach the basics of doing business in Mexico. Understanding cultural differences is key to participating in the global economy. Topics include language, attire, and etiquette.

The last year of the 20th century saw the impeachment trial of President Clinton, the resignation of Boris Yeltsin, and the funeral of Jordan's King Hussein. This program includes clips from those and other headline-making stories, as well as footage from military hotspots such as Chechnya, East Timor, Kosovo, and Iraq; interviews with scientists involved in deciphering chromosome 22 and experts on genetically modified crops; and coverage of the Air...

What's worst for you: fat or sugar? It's a question that's been generating huge amounts of heat in the world's media, from the outer reaches of the Internet to the front pages of the New York Times. So what's the scientific truth? In the greatest traditions of investigative science, twin doctors Chris and Xand Van Tullekan experimented with their own bodies - with one on a low fat diet and one on a low sugar diet. What do sugar and fat do to our metabolism?...

For many people, the Congo will always be associated with Joseph Conrad's early twentieth-century novel the Heart of Darkness, a title that has become a by-word for the country. The metaphor remains a daily reality for former child soldiers Benjamin and David, and Funaha, a young woman held as a sex slave by one of the many militias that continue to terrorize the country. The film explores how this seemingly never-ending conflict impacts on the people...

Remote tribes around the world are struggling to adapt to the intrusions of the Western civilization. Their survival depends on finding a compromise between traditional and modern ways of life. Romanian anthropologist, Sebastian Tirtirau, has dedicated his life to visiting different tribes and pioneering a 'Third Way' of contact. Unlike previous forms of contact-which meant either dominating and conquering them or simply abandoning the tribes to their...

If you divide the productive capacity of the Earth by the number of people on the planet, you can estimate the share of the planet's capacity that each human being is entitled to. Consumer societies of the West are taking up far more than their share of the Earth's resources, while the Third World is taking up far less. This episode of The Green Interview features William Rees, the originator of ecological footprint analysis-designed to measure the...

Beginning with the Suez crisis and ending with the fighting in Chechnya, this program presents a broad sampling of the events that have shaped the post-World War II historical landscape. Clips from the Vietnam War, Bloody Sunday, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, the Somalia relief effort, the Ciskei massacre, and the attempted Soviet coup in Moscow are included. Personalities such as Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Nikita Khrushchev, JFK,...