Living with the Atom

A Little Love(en)

Through interspersed conversation and prose, this experimental documentary follows a poet and a neuroscientist as they explore the definition of love, what it means, and why it matters.

Searching for the Standing Boy of Nagasaki(en)

October 1945. A young Japanese boy in the devastated city of Nagasaki, two months after the atomic bomb, carries on his back the lifeless body of his younger brother. An American military photographer, Joe O'Donnell, took a picture of the boy standing stoically near a cremation pit. No one knows the subject's name, but the photo has become an iconic image of the human tragedy of nuclear war. This documentary follows the continuing efforts to deepen understanding of the photograph, while exploring the fate of thousands of atomic-bomb orphans and their struggles to survive the aftermath of World War II.

Horizon: Which Universe Are We In?(en)

The Shoplifter(en)

This film details the techniques used by amateur and professional shoplifters to steal over $6 billion in merchandise annually. Emphasizing how much of this stealing could be prevented ... A convicted shoplifter displays stealing methods under actual conditions and explains how employees could have prevented the thefts.

Theory of the C-1 Autopilot, Part 1: Basic Principles(en)

Animated training film demonstrating the process by which an autopilot uses gyroscopic controls to maintain an airplane in level flight.

Mystery Man of the A-Bomb(en)

Stories of the people who built the first atomic weapons are well known. But what about those who provided the uranium? We look at a mysterious man who derived huge profits from the business of war.

Der neue Kalte Krieg – Mehr Atomwaffen für Europa?(de)

Human Nature(en)

The biggest tech revolution of the 21st century isn’t digital, it’s biological. A breakthrough called CRISPR gives us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing disease, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. This documentary is a provocative exploration of CRISPR’s far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families it’s affecting, and the genetic engineers who are testing its limits.

Rabies(en)

How to tell if an animal has rabies.

Rabies in a Human Patient(en)

Case history of an Iranian patient bitten by a rabid wolf.

Extinction: The Facts(en)

With a million species at risk of extinction, Sir David Attenborough explores how this crisis of biodiversity has consequences for us all, threatening food and water security, undermining our ability to control our climate and even putting us at greater risk of pandemic diseases.

Cloudspotting(en)

This 90-minute documentary brings to life Gavin Pretor-Pinney’s international bestseller, “The Cloudspotter’s Guide”, which draws on science, meteorology and mythology for a magical journey through the world of clouds. It is no dry treatise on the science of nephology but a playful trip through the varied beauty and distinctive personalities of the ten principal cloud types From the ethereal cirrus to the terrifying cumulonimbus, the film tells the story of the short but eventful life of clouds and their importance to our planet. Find out how immense quantities of water can stay up in the sky for so long and how lightning and thunder are created.

Top Rider(en)

An in-depth look into the isolated sport of Motocross in the much more isolated island of Bermuda.

Tractor Ted All About Harvesters(en)

Tractor Ted shows us lots of huge harvesters and the food they harvest for us and all the animals. Farmer Tom is busy at work on the farm getting in the maize. Luckily the children save the farmer from losing grain from his combine! So many massive machines to see including combine harvester, forage harvester, sugar beet harvester and more.

Tractor Ted in Autumntime(en)

Autumn is one of the busiest seasons on the farm. Tractorland is busy with great big machines. Huge combine harvesters are hard at work, as well as potato harvesters, apple harvesters and forage harvesters.

Tractor Ted in Springtime(en)

Springtime at Tractorland is full of lots of animals being born. We see some very young calves, bouncy puppies and jumping lambs. Sing-along with the JCB as he clears out the ditches.

Tractor Ted All About Tractors(en)

Come on an exciting trip to the tractor factory. Take a look at Les's tractor and how it works, then it's off to the farm to see some of the jobs a tractor can do including towing, mowing, baling, loading and lots more.

Tractor Ted Down on the Farm(en)

Farmer Tom and the childran are off to a farm where cheese is made. The clever cows know when it's milking time and we see them in the dairy. There are lots of machines on the farm too - the milk tanker, the busy forklifts, the feed wagon is feeding the young cows in the barn and the loader is filling the digesters to make electricity on the farm. Lots of exciting jobs to make the yummy cheese.

Tractor Ted Goes Farming(en)

Tractor Ted Goes Farming includes two new stories - meet some amazing tractors with huge caterpillar tracks in Tractor with Tracks whilst Sow and Grow shows us the fascinating machines used to plant and harvest potatoes. There are two of Tractor Ted's favourite stories as well - come inside the factory to see how a real tractor is built with Build a Tractor and Fudge takes the children to see the cute baby lambs being born in Lambing Time.

The World's Biggest Bomb Revealed(en)

National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).