A BAFTA award winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts geologists, archaeologists, anthropologists and scientists from other disciplines piecing together the clues to man's rise from ice age hunter to builder of complex societies more than 2000 years before Columbus set sail for the New World.
A brief history of British aviation and the development of both civil and military aircraft. Made for the Festival of Britain.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary reviewing the 1958 Alpine Rally.
A celebration of Shell Petroleum, tracing its manufacture from discovery in oil fields to its eventual use as fuel for modern living across the globe.
A documentary tracing the development of the helicopter from the original Da Vinci drawings to the modern versions actually in service in 1951.
A documentary investigating the science, aerodynamics and technologies involved in enabling aircraft to travel at speeds approaching or surpassing that of sound.
A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study.
A BAFTA award nominated docu-drama that illustrates the fact that every individual working in any potentially hazardous situation is responsible for his own safety and for the safety of others.
A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and insecticides and land reclamation.
Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.
This final in the three part documentary series looks at the capabilities of modern commercial aircraft to regularly travel faster than the speed of sound.
A documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications that have ensued.
A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the famous Italian motor race from April 26th, 1953.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Le Mans 24 hour race won by Mercedes-Benz.
A documentary concerned with engineering projects connected with developing North Sea oilfields, specifically the Auk and Brent fields.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the work of supply ships to North Sea oil rigs. Described by members of the crew, it focusses on the difficulties posed by the unpredictable weather conditions.
A documentary looking at a day at Croydon Airport south of London.
An introduction to the sport of flying model aircraft. Made with assistance of the Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers.
