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GREAT EGYPTIANS<br />
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Akhenaten - The Rebel Pharaoh<br />
And The Mystery Of Tutankhamen<br />
Akhenaten - his reign was so scandalous that his name was<br />
stricken from his family’s temples. Meet Akhenaten, who<br />
brought dramatic change to Egypt with his slogan ‘Living<br />
Truth.’ King Tut - compare Akhenaten’s legacy with that<br />
of the boy king. Was there a murderer lurking in King Tut’s<br />
court? Egyptologist Bob Brier does a little detective work to<br />
shore up a tale of power and intrigue in one of the world’s<br />
oldest whodunits.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISGE01 <strong>VHS</strong> - DISGE01<br />
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The Real Cleopatra<br />
How did a Greek without a drop of Egyptian<br />
blood become one of the most famous<br />
Egyptians of all time? Go back to the time of<br />
Alexander the Great, who established Egypt’s<br />
Ptolemaic dynasty, into which Cleopatra was<br />
born. Explore the true source of her beguiling<br />
power, her intelligence. You’ll find that this<br />
study of Cleopatra as ruler, mother and consort reveals a<br />
woman very different from her reputation.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISGE02 <strong>VHS</strong> - DISGE02<br />
Price $137.5<br />
Hatshepsut -<br />
The Queen Who Would Be King<br />
When her son tried to ascent to her dead<br />
husband’s throne, Queen Hatshepsut did<br />
the unthinkable and declared herself king.<br />
Learn how she overturned Egyptian tradition<br />
to become one of the most powerful and<br />
successful pharaohs in history. Then examine how ancient<br />
and modern prejudices conspired to withhold the credit due<br />
to this unstoppable ruler.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISGE03 <strong>VHS</strong> - DISGE03<br />
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Sneferu - King Of The Pyramids<br />
He had weaker PR than Tut and company,<br />
but lesser-known Sneferu gets the credit<br />
for making Egypt an international power. He<br />
and his sons built the pyramids, the region’s<br />
most lasting legacy. Join him as he presides<br />
over Egypt’s artistic and architectural<br />
heyday, then fast-forward to crawl through a surviving<br />
pyramid’s labyrinthine burial chambers.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISGE04 <strong>VHS</strong> - DISGE04<br />
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Ramses The Great<br />
This man clearly was concerned with posterity: he built more<br />
monuments and fathered more children during his reign<br />
than any other pharaoh. View some of Ramses’ legacies,<br />
including the massive figures at Abu Simbel that inspired<br />
Mount Rushmore. Then examine a key battle Ramses may<br />
have lost - the one with Moses and the God of the Israelites.<br />
Judge for yourself how well archaeological evidence supports<br />
the events described in Exodus.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISGE05 <strong>VHS</strong> - DISGE05<br />
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Full Series<br />
Price $572<br />
The Hidden History Of Egypt<br />
The pyramids and well known mummies of<br />
ancient Egypt get lots of attention, but what<br />
did people do there every day? From writing<br />
with hieroglyphs to using papyrus, the<br />
ancient Egyptians have had a long lasting<br />
influence. Explore what daily life was like in<br />
a typical house and what was on the menu<br />
for the common person.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2003 Study Notes Duration 26min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISHHE <strong>VHS</strong> - DISHHE<br />
Price $137.5<br />
Mummies - The Ultimate Guide<br />
They’ve been discovered all over the world, from South America<br />
to Antarctica, offering a glimpse of what life was like in ancient<br />
civilisations. Learn how scientists examine mummies to learn<br />
the secrets they can teach us about both the preservation<br />
techniques and belief systems of their makers.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2002 Study Notes Duration 2x52min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISMUM <strong>VHS</strong> - DISMUM<br />
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Death Of A Pharaoh<br />
The ancient Egyptians were consummate builders and much<br />
of their works survive to this day. A look at the construction<br />
of a pyramid and the relocation of the pyramid of Abu Simbel.<br />
The tomb of Tutankhamon, the Great Pyramids and the Book<br />
of the Dead.<br />
NEAR, Spain 2000 Duration 18min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DDVH06 <strong>VHS</strong> - DDVH06<br />
Price $71.5<br />
Empires Egypt<br />
‘Empires Egypt’ presents the most extraordinary period in<br />
Egyptian history from 1560 to 1080 BC, when the Egyptian<br />
Empire reached its zenith. In 1560 BC, when Rome was<br />
still a marsh, Egypt was already 1,000 years old. The New<br />
Kingdom would be an empire forged by conquest, maintained<br />
by intimidation and diplomacy. ‘Empires Egypt’ reveals<br />
with startling clarity the hopes and dreams of the Pharaohs<br />
and ordinary citizens who created the first great empire in<br />
history.<br />
SBS Television 2002 Duration 165min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEME <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEME<br />
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Toward Civilisation<br />
Trace the development of human civilization<br />
from the earliest hunter-gatherers to the<br />
remarkable society of ancient Egypt. Four<br />
segments span the African plains, the<br />
mountains of Europe and the Nile Delta.<br />
Segments include: Before We Ruled the<br />
Earth, Out of Africa, Secrets of the Iceman<br />
and The Nile: Where Egypt Began.<br />
Discovery Channel School Duration 54min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISTC <strong>VHS</strong> - DISTC<br />
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When Civilisations End<br />
What factors lead to the downfall of a great civilisation?<br />
Students will find commonalities and differences in the<br />
ways civilizations met their ends. Segments address former<br />
empires in China, Peru and Africa. Segments include: The<br />
Forbidden City, The Mummies of Peru, Zimbabwe - Lost City<br />
of Africa, The Scramble for African Colonies.<br />
Discovery Channel School Duration 54min<br />
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his series explores the history of<br />
civilisation, taking us back to the first signs<br />
of civilisation in Egypt on the banks of the Nile<br />
as well as in the desert. Shot mostly on location<br />
in Egypt and Sudan this program includes<br />
exciting new discoveries. Co-production S4C, La<br />
Cinquieme, Discovery Channel and SBS Australia<br />
1998.<br />
Chaos And Kings<br />
Egypt is so old that for centuries its origins<br />
have remained shrouded in mystery. In this<br />
program we travel back thousands of years<br />
to discover how this powerful civilisation<br />
emerged. We also look at the role of the<br />
pharaoh, a living god, who was the centre of<br />
conflict between divine and evil forces.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBAE1 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBAE1<br />
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Resurrection Machine<br />
Designed as stepping stones to a happy<br />
afterlife, the great pyramids were not isolated<br />
phenomena but rather representations of<br />
religious and architectural evolution. This<br />
program looks at the development of these<br />
structures and new discoveries over the last<br />
decennium.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBAE2 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBAE2<br />
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Age Of Gold<br />
This program addresses how Egypt became<br />
the greatest empire, recounting the wars<br />
waged between local Egyptians and their<br />
despised foreign rulers, the Hyksos kings. All<br />
evidence is traced back to discoveries and<br />
reconstructions of what they left behind, the<br />
pyramids.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBAE3 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBAE3<br />
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Deities And Demons<br />
The Ancient Egyptians believed in many<br />
gods. Every aspect of life was believed to<br />
be controlled by supernatural beings. The<br />
deities represented the personification of<br />
order whilst the demons were the forces of<br />
chaos. This program addresses the beliefs<br />
that once ruled ancient Egypt and how they<br />
affected life.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBAE4 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBAE4<br />
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Post Mortem<br />
The popular image is that Egyptians were<br />
obsessed with death, yet discoveries, such<br />
as mummification, reveal that they were<br />
more concerned with the afterlife. This last<br />
episode highlights ways in which scientists<br />
can now reveal how ancient Egyptians lived,<br />
using highly advanced computer techniques.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBAE5 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBAE5<br />
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Byzantium<br />
Rome fell in 476, but the empire moved east<br />
and lasted another thousand years. Part One<br />
of Byzantium describes how Constantine, a<br />
Christian convert, moved the centre of power<br />
to this former Greek city and made it the glory<br />
of the Christian world. Part two examines<br />
the legacy of Byzantium, conquered by the<br />
Ottomans in 1453. Learn how Byzantium refugees helped<br />
spark the Renaissance by bringing classic Greek and Roman<br />
texts back from the East.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2002 Study Notes Duration 2x52min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISBYZ <strong>VHS</strong> - DISBYZ<br />
Price $137.5<br />
Parthenon - Design And Architecture<br />
Learn about the building techniques of the ancient Greeks,<br />
from quarrying huge blocks of marble in the mountains around<br />
Athens to the intricate carvings of magnificent sculptures that<br />
adorned the Parthenon.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2002 Study Notes Duration 2x52min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISPDA <strong>VHS</strong> - DISPDA<br />
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Spartan Warriors<br />
Ancient Greek Culture<br />
During the 5th and 6th centuries B.C., Sparta<br />
was the most powerful city state in Greece.<br />
Discover how the Spartans’ devotion to<br />
military training fueled their rise and also led<br />
the to their downfall.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2002<br />
Study Notes Duration 33min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISSW <strong>VHS</strong> - DISSW<br />
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Jerusalem - City Of Heaven<br />
Few cities have seen as much religious and political turmoil<br />
over the centuries as Jerusalem, born 5000 years ago at the<br />
site of a sacred rock. Visit the place that for Jews, Christians<br />
and Muslims is the holiest of cities, one that has attracted<br />
conflict and controversy even as it continues to dominate<br />
Western civilisation.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2002 Study Notes Duration 2x50min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISJCH <strong>VHS</strong> - DISJCH<br />
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The Great Wall Of China<br />
Stretching 1,500 miles from the Yellow Sea<br />
to the central Asian desert, the 2,000 year<br />
old Great Wall of China has shaped not only<br />
China’s past, but all of Europe’s as well.<br />
Meet a photographer whose passion for<br />
the Great Wall has driven him to uncover<br />
thousands of forgotten miles of the barrier<br />
built by China’s dynasties.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2002 Study Notes Duration 2x52min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISGWC <strong>VHS</strong> - DISGWC<br />
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Archaeological Detective<br />
Imagine digging a flowerbed in your front<br />
yard and unearthing human bones! Such<br />
an alarming find gets explored in this show<br />
as detectives, coroners and archaeologists<br />
work together to solve a crime committed<br />
years ago.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2002<br />
Study Notes Duration 26min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISFD2 <strong>VHS</strong> - DISFD2<br />
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ANCIENT ROME<br />
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Rise To Power<br />
It’s a history conceived in a legend - twin<br />
boys suckled by a wolf. ‘Rise to Power’<br />
traces the early chapters in Rome’s history<br />
from Romulus and Remus to the dawn of an<br />
empire. On the mudflats of the Tiber River,<br />
life under decadent Etruscan kings led to<br />
full-scale revolt, and the Roman Republic was born.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISAR01 <strong>VHS</strong> - DISAR01<br />
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Struggles For Power<br />
There was no turning back. In one decisive<br />
moment, Julius Caesar marched his troops<br />
across the Rubicon to Rome. He came, saw<br />
and conquered, transforming the world’s<br />
first representative government into an<br />
autocracy. Julius Caesar did not know that<br />
absolute power corrupts absolutely. He<br />
could not foresee that by creating an empire,<br />
he was sowing the seeds of Rome’s eventual<br />
decline.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISAR02 <strong>VHS</strong> - DISAR02<br />
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Expansion And Conquest<br />
Rank amateurs filled its ranks, but the<br />
Roman army was able to conquer the known<br />
world. What makes a man fit to serve in the<br />
Roman legions? How did Rome keep her<br />
soldiers loyal? ‘Expansion and Conquest’<br />
will send your students over the Alps on<br />
elephants with great general Hannibal and<br />
take them into the thick of the Roman army’s first great test,<br />
the Punic Wars.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISAR03 <strong>VHS</strong> - DISAR03<br />
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Fall Of An Empire<br />
Everything must come to an end, and the<br />
glory that was Rome ended in the onslaught<br />
of Germanic tribes. Alaric, king of the<br />
Visigoths, unlettered, rude and ruthless<br />
brought the empire to her knees. ‘Fall of<br />
an Empire’ follows the sad, last days of the<br />
Romans. But it will also remind your students<br />
how the Roman legacy persists today in art, architecture,<br />
politics and medicine.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISAR04 <strong>VHS</strong> - DISAR04<br />
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Prosperity And Decline<br />
It was the longest peacetime in European<br />
history - the Pax Romana. Fifty million people<br />
were free to travel, trade and build. So what<br />
went wrong? ‘Prosperity and Decline’ traces<br />
the Romans’ road to ruin, uncovers the<br />
warning signs of decay, and proves that you<br />
can have too much of a good thing.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISAR05 <strong>VHS</strong> - DISAR05<br />
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Empires The Greeks -<br />
Crucible Of Civilisation<br />
‘Empires The Greeks’ recounts the rise,<br />
glory, demise and legacy of the empire that<br />
marked the dawn of Western Civilisation.<br />
In the fourth and fifth centuries B.C., the<br />
Greeks built an empire that stretched across<br />
the Mediterranean from Asia to Spain. They<br />
laid the foundation of modern science,<br />
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politics, warfare and philosophy, and produced some of the<br />
most breathtaking art and architecture the world has ever<br />
seen. It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of<br />
imagination.<br />
SBS Television 2002 Duration 165min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMG <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMG<br />
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Romans Of Aalen<br />
Every two years, the German town of Aalen steps back in<br />
time to tell the story of its origins in the second century A.D.<br />
In those days, Aalen, now part of Unesco’s World Heritage,<br />
was on the northern boundary of the Roman Empire. To<br />
commemorate, Aalen hosts Europe’s largest get-together of<br />
Roman history enthusiasts who bring the city’s past back to<br />
life. For two days, participants fully enter into the spirit of the<br />
occasion and invent an imaginary life.<br />
Ampersand 2003 Duration 26min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - AMPRAA<br />
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Gladiators Romes Violent Past BEST<br />
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military tools and for entertainment. See<br />
how gladiators lived, fought, and died in the<br />
arena. This program tells the story of how<br />
gladiator fights were tools of political power,<br />
and how the Romans devastated the wildlife<br />
population across Europe to maintain this<br />
brutal sport.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2003 Study Notes Duration 52min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISRVP <strong>VHS</strong> - DISRVP<br />
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Empires Roman Empire<br />
In The First Century<br />
Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century,<br />
the world was ruled by Rome. The Roman Empire struggled<br />
with problems which are surprisingly familiar: violent coups,<br />
assassinations, overarching ambition, civil war, clashes<br />
between the classes as well as the sexes, and questions of<br />
personal freedom versus government control. This program is<br />
presented by Sigourney Weaver.<br />
SBS Television 2002 Duration 240min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMR <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMR<br />
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Empires Kingdom Of David -<br />
The Saga Of The Israelites<br />
Nearly 3000 years ago, a tiny group of tribes<br />
in the land of Canaan gave birth to a nation<br />
and a religion - a religion that would dare to<br />
redefine humanity’s relationship with God.<br />
‘Empires Kingdom of David’ tells the epic<br />
story of the Israelites and the creation of the world’s first<br />
and most profoundly influential, monotheistic religion. The<br />
stories of the patriarch Abraham, the liberator Moses, and<br />
the poet-king David all come to life in the dramatic tale of<br />
loss and triumph.<br />
SBS Television 2002 Duration 240min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMKD <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMKD<br />
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Imperium -<br />
Fall Of Great Empires<br />
Imperium - Fall of Great Empires bestows a<br />
human face on once magnificent empires.<br />
What were the events that brought about the<br />
sudden fall of highly advanced empires such as<br />
Persia, Egypt, Carthage and Rome? A team of<br />
international researchers specifically examines<br />
the causes of collapse, pinpointing the fascinating<br />
moments in which the destinies of entire nations<br />
and empires were determined and compellingly<br />
illustrates how, for a brief moment in history, the<br />
development of today’s world hung by a thread.<br />
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Storm Over Persia<br />
Can an individual bring down a world power?<br />
Or did the Persian Empire fall because it was<br />
a colossus built on shaky foundations? For<br />
centuries the Persian Empire had existed in<br />
what appeared to be resolute stability until<br />
collapsing in a relatively short period of time<br />
under the military strikes of Alexander the<br />
Great.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBIMP1 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBIMP1<br />
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Death On The Nile<br />
Did the powerful empire of the Nile collapse<br />
under the weaknesses and burdens of<br />
Cleopatra, the last of the Pharaohs? Or was<br />
the divine monarch unable to keep pace<br />
with the challenges of the age? The image<br />
of imposing pyramids and temples gives the<br />
impression of invincible power and strength.<br />
Was the final collapse of this great power inevitable or was its<br />
fate sealed purely by the unstoppable Roman legions?<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBIMP2 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBIMP2<br />
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The Fall Of Carthage<br />
Did Hannibal carelessly squander the power<br />
of Carthage? Were the ingenious strategist’s<br />
legendary victories paradoxically the reason<br />
for the downfall of this incredibly rich trading<br />
empire? Why did Hannibal, at the very height<br />
of his triumphant campaign, refrain from<br />
attacking the city of Rome?<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBIMP3 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBIMP3<br />
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The Battle For Rome<br />
Did the superpower of the ancient world<br />
simply collapse on account of its size? Or<br />
did the power struggles of rival contenders<br />
for the throne, epidemics such as malaria,<br />
lead poisoning on an extensive scale or overreliance<br />
on auxiliary troops bring about the<br />
fall of Rome? Or was it the influence of early<br />
Christianity? In October 312AD, two imperial rivals and their<br />
armies fight a fierce battle for power over the Empire: it was<br />
the outcome of this battle that determined the fate of the<br />
ancient world power.<br />
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Daily Bread - Stories From The Stoneage<br />
An exploration of the revolutionary period of prehistory that<br />
began when humans abandoned the nomadic hunting and<br />
gathering existence they had known for millennia to take<br />
up a completely new way of life . Part one of this three part<br />
series examines the change people undertake from hunter to<br />
gatherers to farmers in the Middle East.<br />
ABC Australia Duration 53min <strong>VHS</strong> - ABSFTS1<br />
Price $110<br />
Urban Dream - Stories From The Stoneage<br />
Why do some still continue hunting and gathering despite<br />
their contact with farming people and advanced technologies?<br />
How and why did our paths become uniquely shaped after<br />
emerging as a species from a single genetic family in Africa?<br />
ABC Australia Duration 53min <strong>VHS</strong> - ABSFTS2<br />
Price $110<br />
Waves Of Change -<br />
Stories From The Stoneage<br />
Based on extensive research, Stories from the Stone Age takes<br />
us on a journey where we get to live alongside our ancestors<br />
as they cross between the Old and the New Worlds and into<br />
Civilisation. The series utilises detailed re-enactments and<br />
short interviews with key archaeological experts.<br />
ABC Australia Duration 53min <strong>VHS</strong> - ABSFTS3<br />
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Lost Empires Of Asia And Russia<br />
Segments include The Lost City of Shang: examines China’s<br />
first great dynasty and the causes of its demise, Elephant<br />
Warriors: shows how the actions of a great Indian leader<br />
brought an end to his empire and sowed the seeds of<br />
Buddhism. Crisis in Russia: demonstrates how the Russian<br />
peoples opposition to the czarist regime and their demand<br />
for basic civil liberties led to revolution. Russian Revolution:<br />
examines the Soviets’ brutal dismantling of the czarist<br />
system.<br />
Discovery Channel School Duration 54min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISLE <strong>VHS</strong> - DISLE<br />
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Destiny Determined -<br />
Power And Ritual In Asia<br />
Segments include Behind the Great Wall: explores the history<br />
of the Great Wall of China and the Dynasty of Qin Shi Huangdi.<br />
Story of the Silk Road: examines the history of the Silk Road,<br />
trade and the Han Dynasty. Secrets of the Samurai: looks into<br />
the science and technology of Samurai sword making and the<br />
history of Japanese ritual. Between Two Cultures: Japanese in<br />
America: introduces Japanese students living in America and<br />
the problems they encounter.<br />
Discovery Channel School Duration 54min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISDD <strong>VHS</strong> - DISDD<br />
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Asia - Tradition And Culture<br />
From Japan’s ancient ceremonies to<br />
Australia’s unique history, students will be<br />
fascinated by the heritages represented.<br />
Segments convey the joy and reverence of<br />
numerous celebrations and rituals. Ancient<br />
Warriors: chronicles the proud, intriguing<br />
history of Japans’ Samurai. City in the Sky:<br />
surveys engineers’ remarkable plan to build a mile high<br />
building in the centre of Tokyo. Fire and Water: portrays the<br />
celebrations and festivals that mark important times of year<br />
for the people of Thailand. A World of Its Own: explores a wide<br />
variety of geographic and cultural events in Australia.<br />
Discovery Channel School Duration 54min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISATC <strong>VHS</strong> - DISATC<br />
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he Celts were the first European<br />
people north of the Alps to rise from anonymity.<br />
They occupied lands from the Black Sea to the<br />
Atlantic, sacked Rome and pilaged Delphi. They<br />
were never an empire but they were a civilisation<br />
- reviled for their barbarism and admired for their<br />
artistic craftsmanship. Wild, ferocious drunkards,<br />
they were also romantics and mystics. They were<br />
indeed ‘the fathers of Europe’. Their story is a<br />
story of survival, defiance and creativity, often<br />
in the face of oppression. SBS Australia 2000.<br />
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In The Beginning<br />
Who were the Celts? Where did they come<br />
from? What made their culture so distinctive?<br />
- Mysteries made more complex by the<br />
absence of ancient Celtic written records.<br />
A distinctive Celtic culture existed in central<br />
Europe by about 700BC but the roots of that<br />
culture go even further back in time and even<br />
beyond Europe.<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBCT1 Price $19.95<br />
Heroes In Defeat<br />
The heyday of the Celts was the La Tene era, by which<br />
time a complex social structure had evolved. It was tribal<br />
and women were often the leaders; warriors, bards, druids,<br />
artists and craftsmen all had special status but then the<br />
Celts clashed with the Romans and a highly developed<br />
culture fell apart.<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBCT2 Price $19.95<br />
Sacred Groves<br />
The Celts are surrounded by an aura of romance and<br />
mysticism. Their views of the ‘other world’, their gods, the<br />
druids, human sacrifice, head hunting, sacred groves and<br />
the Temples of Natre - all of these facets are Celticism.<br />
Echoes of the past still resonate today.<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBCT3 Price $19.95<br />
From Camelot To Christ<br />
The slow collapse of the Roman Empire saw the arrival of the<br />
new alien cultures of the Saxons, the Angles and the Franks.<br />
These were now the enemies of the Celts forcing them ever<br />
westwards. The Celtic world is now linked increasingly with<br />
the Christian missionaries who crossed the Channel during<br />
the large-scale migrations of the fifth and sixth centuries.<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBCT4 Price $19.95<br />
Legend And Reality<br />
The gradual emergence of modern Europe created new<br />
nations and new loyalties that inexorably absorbed the old<br />
Celtic Kingdoms. But the Celts did not die. They and their<br />
influence lived on.<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBCT5 Price $19.95<br />
Dead Song<br />
The great hemorrhage of Celtic peoples from the nineteenth<br />
century onwards is one of the main themes of this program.<br />
Wherever they went, wherever they may be in these lands,<br />
they face a dilemma - to be absorbed or to retain their own<br />
identity.<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBCT6 Price $19.95<br />
Full Series<br />
Price $66<br />
The Normans - A Dynasty<br />
That Shaped The World<br />
They were the brutal band of thugs who<br />
civilised a nation, conquered a kingdom and<br />
uncovered a continent. They were at once<br />
the most civilised of statesmen, the most<br />
fearless and skilled of warriors and the most<br />
gallant and accomplished of explorers. Theirs is a saga of<br />
epic proportions. They were the pioneers of the New World<br />
and the trailblazers of our modern society. This program<br />
includes the three episodes: The Invaders, The Kingdom in<br />
the Sun and Loss of Identity.<br />
SBS Television Duration 3x55min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBNOR <strong>VHS</strong> - SBNOR (<strong>VHS</strong> sold in three parts)<br />
Price $29.95 ea<br />
The First Pompeii<br />
The secret lives and deaths of a prehistoric community lay<br />
buried in the Italian countryside for over 3500 years. But<br />
two remarkable recent discoveries have revealed something<br />
extraordinary.<br />
SBS Television 2004 Duration 46min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBFP <strong>VHS</strong> - SBFP<br />
Price $132<br />
In Search Of The Maya<br />
Is a hieroglyph worth a thousand words? They are to<br />
archaeologists sifting through the ruins of the Mayan city<br />
Calakmul. See how these valuable epigraphs are beginning<br />
to tell the story of a violent, religious, and politically charged<br />
culture that disappeared without explanation.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2002 Study Notes Duration 2x27min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISSOM <strong>VHS</strong> - DISSOM<br />
Price $137.5<br />
Lords Of The Maya<br />
This program takes a special look at the Mayan culture, one of<br />
the most intriguing civilisations. Books in Mayan hieroglyphics<br />
have revealed that the Mayas prospered under the Spanish<br />
missionaries. Explores how these influences actually shaped<br />
and formed Mayan architecture and arts.<br />
SBS Australia 1998 Duration 30min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBLOM<br />
Price $71.5<br />
The Mayas I<br />
This program explores important contemporary milestones in<br />
the world’s history when the Mayan Empire reached its peak.<br />
It looks at their culture: their Scriptures, calender, agriculture<br />
and their concept of the mathematical ‘zero’.<br />
NEAR, Spain 2000 Duration 18min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DDVH04 <strong>VHS</strong> - DDVH04<br />
Price $71.5<br />
The Mayas II<br />
This second part of the Mayas looks at their art and religion,<br />
how they buried their dead, temple secrets, the game of<br />
Pelota, King Pascal’s tomb, and how the Mayan Empire was<br />
wiped out by the Spanish invaders.<br />
NEAR, Spain 2000 Duration 18min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DDVH05 <strong>VHS</strong> - DDVH05<br />
Price $71.5<br />
The Incan Empire<br />
One of the most advanced of the early civilisations, the Incas<br />
had highly developed levels of scientific, mathematical and<br />
engineering skills. Learn the origins, development, social and<br />
economic structure and how this mighty empire finally ended.<br />
NEAR, Spain 2000 Duration 16min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DDVH03 <strong>VHS</strong> - DDVH03<br />
Price $71.5
THE SEA KINGDOMS<br />
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resented by Alistair Moffat. These<br />
are the lands of the Celtic peoples and the sea<br />
is the unbroken link that binds the Hebrides to the<br />
west of Wales, Ireland and Cornwall. The history<br />
of the Celtic peoples has been largely forgotten or<br />
subsumed. SBS Television 2005 6SBSKS<br />
Music Of The Thing As It Happened<br />
Languages now under threat connect the inhabitants of<br />
Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Wales, Ireland and Scotland.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBSKS1 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBSKS1<br />
The Islands Of The Evening<br />
With the sea as its central theme, this program reveals the<br />
courage of early sailors and navigators and their impact on<br />
the Celtic Kingdoms.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBSKS2 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBSKS2<br />
The Mighty Language Of The Gael<br />
Explores language and how it connects Celtic people.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBSKS3 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBSKS3<br />
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Breaking Down The Ghost Fences<br />
Examines the importance of early Celtic religion and the ancient<br />
customs practised by Druids and ordinary people alike.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBSKS4 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBSKS4<br />
Until The Break Of Day<br />
The fundamental beliefs of the Celtic peoples have shaped<br />
their culture. Monks created special places of worship in the<br />
Celtic lands.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBSKS5 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBSKS5<br />
The Sons Of Death<br />
Some part of the Vikings still remain in the land they once<br />
invaded.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBSKS6 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBSKS6<br />
Dancing To The Music Of Time<br />
The Obby Oss is a wonderful and ancient ritual that goes back<br />
to early Celtic times and is a tangible link to the old ways of<br />
the pre-Christian peoples of the Sea Kingdoms.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBSKS7 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBSKS7<br />
Eagles, Bards And Druids<br />
Examines the determination of Edward I to conquer the Welsh<br />
and the effects occupation had on the Welsh psyche. The<br />
modern campaign to save the Welsh language and the Welsh<br />
past cannot be separated.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBSKS8 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBSKS8<br />
Swordland<br />
For the last thirty years a Gaelic war has been fought on the<br />
streets of Ireland. Examines the horrors of the 1798 rebellion<br />
where many more lost their lives in one year in one Irish<br />
county than were lost in the whole terror that was the French<br />
Revolution.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBSKS9 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBSKS9<br />
Ardtornish No More<br />
Examines the powerful Lords of the Isles and the beginning<br />
of the Clan system. The strength of these naval Lords faded<br />
and with it Scotland’s place as a centre of commerce and<br />
naval power.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBSKS10 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBSKS10 Price Each<br />
Price $99<br />
Europe in the Middle Ages<br />
A magnificent series which documents life<br />
and events across Western Europe during the<br />
period between the fall of the Roman Empire<br />
and the achievements of early Renaissanceculture.<br />
The programs intercept art and<br />
artifacts with meticulously documented<br />
dramatic reenactments of life among ordinary<br />
men, in the monasteries, and at the courts. The focus lies on<br />
experimental historical research that illustrates the impact<br />
the Middle Ages had on the Modern Age.<br />
SBS Television Duration 4 x 45mins<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEM <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEM<br />
Price $39.95<br />
Galileo’s Battle For The Heavens<br />
A documentary on the dramatic life of great<br />
Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, based on<br />
Dava Sobel’s best seller ‘Galileo’s Daughter’,<br />
which celebrates the story of the father<br />
of modern science and his struggle to get<br />
Church authorities to accept the truth of<br />
his astonishing discoveries. This program<br />
includes re-enactments played by renowned British actor<br />
Simon Callow of key moments from Galileo’s life: his<br />
pioneering telescopic observations of the Moon and planets,<br />
his revolutionary experiments with falling objects, and his<br />
fateful trial before the Inquisition for heresy.<br />
SBS Television 2003 Duration 2x60min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBGBH <strong>VHS</strong> - SBGBH<br />
Price $132<br />
Viking Discoveries<br />
They weren’t just raiders. The Vikings were<br />
farmers, fishermen, traders, sailors and<br />
master shipbuilders. Their greatest assets<br />
were their long ships, the fastest ships in<br />
Europe. Learn about Viking influence on<br />
world history and other cultures during their<br />
expansion across the North Atlantic Ocean<br />
and Europe.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2003 Study Notes Duration 52min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISVD <strong>VHS</strong> - DISVD<br />
Price $137.5<br />
Treasures Of South America<br />
Tour the natural and historical treasures of one of the world’s<br />
most diverse continents. Meet two unique creatures of<br />
Galapagos that intrigued Charles Darwin. Travel to the ruins<br />
of the ancient Inca city of Cuzco, Peru. See the majestic<br />
cataracts at Iguazu Falls, where water and gravity collide.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2000 Study Notes Duration 26 min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISTSA <strong>VHS</strong> - DISTSA<br />
Price $137.5<br />
All About The Enlightenment<br />
The Age Of Reason<br />
The Enlightenment, also known as the Age<br />
of Reason, is the name given to the period<br />
in Europe and America during the 1700s<br />
when mankind was emerging from centuries<br />
of ignorance into a new age enlightened by<br />
reason, science, and respect for humanity.<br />
People of the Enlightenment were convinced that human<br />
reason could (1) discover the natural laws of the universe<br />
and (2) determine the natural rights of mankind; (3) thereby<br />
unending progress in knowledge, technical achievement, and<br />
moral values.<br />
Duration 15min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULEN <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULEN<br />
Price $137.5<br />
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TREASURES OF THE<br />
ANCIENT WORLD<br />
Cromwell Productions. MPAW<br />
Stonehenge<br />
Featuring the very latest in advanced<br />
computer animation, this video lets you step<br />
back nearly 3,000 years. See the famous<br />
stones as they were originally constructed...<br />
visit a Druid ceremony...hear leading<br />
authorities explain the latest theories and<br />
known facts about Stonehenge.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6MPAW01 <strong>VHS</strong> - MPAW01<br />
Price $132<br />
Hadrian’s Wall<br />
Hadrian’s Wall marked the northern boundary of the mighty<br />
Roman Empire. It ran for a length of some 115 miles from<br />
the River Tyne to West Cumbria, crossing the whole width<br />
of Britain. Now using atmospheric reconstructions, you can<br />
watch the wall unravel before you.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6MPAW02 <strong>VHS</strong> - MPAW02<br />
Price $132<br />
The Great Pyramids<br />
Giza, the burial site of the mighty Pharoahs<br />
of Egypt, is still one of the most awe inspiring<br />
sights in the world today. This program<br />
features superb on-location footage and<br />
graphic ‘reconstructions’.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6MPAW03 <strong>VHS</strong> - MPAW03<br />
Price $132<br />
The Lost City Of Pompeii<br />
This program tells the story of the doomed city, buried under<br />
a mountain of volcanic ash in A.D. 63. Rediscovered in 1848,<br />
the vast site continues to give up its secrets to this very<br />
day.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6MPAW04 <strong>VHS</strong> - MPAW04<br />
Price $132<br />
Ancient Rome<br />
This program provides a unique record of<br />
the treasures left to us by a remarkable<br />
civilisation. This program includes virtual<br />
reconstructions of the Colosseum which<br />
played host to great affairs of state and<br />
where people flocked to see gladiators fight<br />
to the death in mortal combat.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6MPAW05 <strong>VHS</strong> - MPAW05<br />
Price $132<br />
The Aztecs And The Mayans<br />
Famed for their incredible architectural achievements, the<br />
Aztec legacy lives on in modern Mexico City; the peaceful,<br />
nomadic Mayan people bequeathed to us some of the worlds<br />
great temples including Chichen Itza and Copan.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6MPAW06 <strong>VHS</strong> - MPAW06<br />
Price $132<br />
Ancient Greece<br />
This program explores the breathtaking<br />
beauty of the Acropolis and the Parthenon,<br />
the majesty of the remains at Delphi and the<br />
inspiring Temple of Zeus.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6MPAW07 <strong>VHS</strong> - MPAW07<br />
Price $132<br />
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Ancient Jerusalem<br />
This program tells the story of the Holy City, its famous walls<br />
and gates, Mount Zion and King David’s Tomb, where Christ<br />
spent his final days.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6MPAW08 <strong>VHS</strong> - MPAW08<br />
Price $132<br />
Romans In North Africa<br />
Using breathtaking graphics and animation this program<br />
explores the major Roman sites including the underground<br />
city of Bulla Regia, Dougga and the Colosseum of El Jem. It<br />
includes historical analysis and reconstructions of some of<br />
history’s greatest monuments.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6MPAW09 <strong>VHS</strong> - MPAW09<br />
Price $132<br />
Carthage<br />
This program explores with animation and<br />
graphics the wonders of the ancient city<br />
which stood on the northern coast of Africa<br />
near modern day Tunis.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6MPAW10 <strong>VHS</strong> - MPAW10<br />
Price $132<br />
Ancient Egypt<br />
This program visits, explores and restores using breathtaking<br />
3D graphics the Temples of Al Karnak, Luxor and Abu Simbel<br />
and the Mortuary of Hatsepsut.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6MPAW11 <strong>VHS</strong> - MPAW11<br />
Price $132<br />
Seven Wonders<br />
Through the great stories of the ancient world, this program<br />
is a journey back in time to explore the seven wonders of<br />
the ancient world, including the Temple of Artemis and the<br />
Colossus of Rhodes.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6MPAW12 <strong>VHS</strong> - MPAW12<br />
Price $132<br />
Full Series<br />
Price $396<br />
All About The Renaissance<br />
Part one covers historical background, beginnings and art.<br />
This extremely useful program, filmed in seven different<br />
European nations, provides students with accurate and<br />
essential information about the fascinating historical period<br />
of cultural rebirth called the Renaissance. It sets the stage<br />
for the Renaissance by providing the historical background<br />
needed to understand its emergence in the early 1300s.<br />
Part two covers science, invention, architecture, exploration<br />
and religous reform focusing on the later developments of<br />
the Renaissance. This program presents the impact of the<br />
enormous changes that took place in science, invention,<br />
architecture, exploration and religious reform during this<br />
pivotal era of world history.<br />
Duration 2x15min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULREN <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULREN<br />
Price $132<br />
Alexander The Great<br />
Alexander’s triumphs over the Persian Empire remain one of<br />
history’s greatest campaigns of conquest. Follow the story of<br />
a man who ruled the world stage for a brief time, but whose<br />
influence was felt years after his death.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2002 Study Notes<br />
Duration 31min <strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISAG <strong>VHS</strong> - DISAG<br />
Price $137.5
WORLD HISTORY<br />
Produced by United Learning - Study Notes.<br />
Ancient Egypt - Gift Of The Nile<br />
This program explores the tombs and temples<br />
of the Pharaohs. Viewers will see how the<br />
Egyptians built mountains of stone to honour<br />
dead kings and queens and protect their<br />
mummies forever. Ra, the sun god and Horus,<br />
the protector of the Kings are also covered.<br />
Covers the period of 3000BC - 30 BC Duration<br />
28min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULH01 <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULH01<br />
Mayas And Aztecs<br />
This program traces the roots of human culture in the new<br />
world and explains the emergence of the civilisations in<br />
Central and South America: the Olmec culture and the Mayas.<br />
The program travels to Teotihuaca and looks at the Toltec<br />
Culture and the Chichimec barbarians.<br />
Duration 30min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULH02 <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULH02<br />
Discovering Ancient Greece<br />
Viewers visit Mycenae, site of the palace of the Agamemnon,<br />
the ruins of the once great city-state Corinth, the great theatre<br />
and the centre of medicine at Epidauros. Discover the ancient<br />
temples, gymnasium and stadium at Olympia and the secrets<br />
of the religious centre at Delphi.<br />
Covers the period of 1500BC -100 BC Duration 35min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULH03 <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULH03<br />
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The World Of Ancient Rome<br />
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This program covers the Roman Empire, looking at its forms<br />
of government, conquests, the Pax Romana and finally the<br />
division of the Empire and the fall of Rome in 176 AD. Explored<br />
are Roman architecture, religion, engineering methods,<br />
slavery and Christianity.<br />
Covers the period of 753 BC -476 AD Duration 21min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULH04 <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULH04<br />
The Dark Ages<br />
This program looks at how this period of European history<br />
during the time that led from the fall of Rome up to the Norman<br />
Conquest was a time of tremendous social, political, religious,<br />
and economic transition, brought about by the merging of the<br />
classical Roman culture with that of the barbarians.<br />
Covers the period 400 - 1066 AD Duration 30min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULH05 <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULH05<br />
Medieval Times<br />
The first part of this program introduces the<br />
concept of feudalism, and the second part<br />
examines the structure and role of religion<br />
and village life in the Middle Ages, providing<br />
a framework for people to better understand<br />
this important period in history.<br />
Covers the period 1000 - 1450 AD Duration 30min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULH06 <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULH06<br />
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The Black Death<br />
This program looks at the effect of the plague on ordinary<br />
people of the time, including their bizarre reactions to a threat<br />
they could not understand. Explored are the lasting economic,<br />
political and social changes wrought by this dreaded disease.<br />
Covers the period 13347 - 1351 AD Duration 15min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULH07 <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULH07<br />
BEST<br />
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Exploring The Renaissance<br />
This program explores the marvellous innovations in art,<br />
literature, communications, architecture, science, religion<br />
and explorations that occurred during this ‘rediscovery’<br />
period. Covers the period of 1350-1650 AD Duration 20min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULH08 <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULH08<br />
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Protestant Reformation<br />
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This program filmed entirely on location in Europe, provides<br />
viewers with a clear understanding of the causes of the<br />
Protestant Reformation and the social and political changes<br />
that resulted from it.<br />
Covers the period 1517 - 1565 AD Duration 21min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULH09 <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULH09<br />
Pilgrims And Puritans The Struggle<br />
For Religious Freedom<br />
Viewers see how the actions of Martin Luther, King Henry VIII<br />
and John Calvin eventually led to the creation of Puritanism.<br />
The program pays particular attention to the Puritan offshoot<br />
group called ‘Separatists’ who most refer to as Pilgrims.<br />
Covers the Period 1517 - 1602 AD Duration 22min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULH10 <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULH10<br />
The Age Of Reason<br />
Europe After The Renaissance<br />
This program addresses how the English philosopher John<br />
Locke and his contemporary scientist Isaac Newton provided<br />
the foundation for a unique period in history. New ideas<br />
regarding divine rights of kings, social privilege, separation<br />
of church and state, made this era politically revolutionary.<br />
Covers the period of 1642 - 1800 Duration 23min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULH11 <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULH11<br />
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Industrial Revolution<br />
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This video examines the historical background to the first<br />
industrial revolution which began in England around 1750.<br />
The invention of labour-saving machinery, the spread of<br />
factories, the use of steam power, the iron and coal industries<br />
and the rise of capitalism are all explained.<br />
Covers the period of 1750 - 1915 Duration 18min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULH12 <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULH12<br />
The Holocaust<br />
This video documentary is based on the experiences of David<br />
Bergman. These are the experiences of someone of the same<br />
age as the students for whom this program is intended. It is<br />
an opportunity for them to imagine how it might feel to be<br />
subjected to the horrors of The Holocaust.<br />
Duration 18min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULH13 <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULH13<br />
Civilisation And Conflict<br />
This program examines three main subjects: firstly the rise<br />
and fall of the world’s first Christian state, the Byzantine<br />
Empire; secondly the growth of the Islamic civilisation; and<br />
then finally the Crusades, a series of conflicts involving Islam,<br />
Byzantium and Catholic Western Europe.<br />
Duration 18min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULH14 <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULH14<br />
Age Of Discovery<br />
This program addresses the discovery of the world from the<br />
fourteenth through to the seventeenth centuries. It shows<br />
the routes of the explorers and the accomplishments of their<br />
discoveries, trade routes, view of the world, slave-trade and<br />
much more.<br />
Duration 24min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULH16 Price Each Full Series<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - RWULH16<br />
Price $132 Price $1397<br />
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Great Age Of<br />
Exploration<br />
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This program covers the<br />
discoveries and explorations<br />
of the fourteenth through<br />
to the seventeenth<br />
centuries. It covers several<br />
explorers’ routes and<br />
accomplishments. It shows<br />
the explorations in the<br />
context of the time.<br />
Duration 30min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWULH15<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - RWULH15<br />
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NEWSCAST FROM<br />
THE PAST SERIES<br />
This series of programs are<br />
innovatively presented as news<br />
broadcasts held on a date of<br />
the century which they are<br />
reviewing. They clearly show<br />
the most important historical<br />
events in the twelfth to<br />
seventeenth centuries.<br />
Titles Include:<br />
1148<br />
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1215<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - RWAANC2<br />
1356<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - RWAANC3<br />
1431<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - RWAANC4<br />
1521<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> -RWAANC5<br />
1642<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - RWAANC6<br />
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ANCIENT DISCOVERIES 3<br />
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Today we live in a world unimaginable<br />
to even our great-grandparents. It’s an age<br />
of hi-tech, jet aircraft, supercomputers and<br />
intelligent machines. Since the Industrial<br />
Revolution our world has progressed at lightning<br />
pace, leaving all previous civilisations far behind<br />
it. Or has it? Ancient Discoveries explores the<br />
amazing high technology of the Classical World<br />
and asks why, with all these incredible devices,<br />
the Industrial Revolution didn’t happen two<br />
thousand years earlier. SBS Television 2003.<br />
Computing<br />
The computer - a device for making<br />
automatic calculations. The first electrical<br />
computers only emerged in the Second<br />
World War, the first mechanical ones barely<br />
a hundred years earlier. Yet two thousand<br />
two hundred years before that the Greeks<br />
had machines that could do exactly the same things. This<br />
program takes us back to the classical world of the third<br />
century BC to tell the stories of three of the most important<br />
machines in history - Ctesibius’ clock, Vitruvius’ odometer<br />
and the spectacular Antikythera mechanism.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBAD1 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBAD1<br />
Price $132<br />
Robotics<br />
‘Robotics’ explores the life and three key<br />
areas of invention of Heron of Alexandria.<br />
Beginning in the dark recesses of an Egyptian<br />
temple we will witness the awe-inspiring<br />
operations of his ‘miracle machines’, from<br />
automatic doors and magically suspended<br />
spheres, to mechanical singing birds, coinoperated<br />
slot machines and speaking statues - all designed<br />
to inspire wonder in the congregation and provide revenue for<br />
the priests. But, greatest of all, was Heron’s steam engine,<br />
a working device that was not only the first steam engine in<br />
history but also the first jet engine.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBAD2 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBAD2<br />
Price $132<br />
Medicine<br />
We take a look into the grisly but brilliant<br />
surgeries of the great ancient physicians<br />
to witness three procedures common at<br />
the time but which would not be attempted<br />
successfully again for nearly two thousand<br />
years. In the tomb of a Roman surgeon in<br />
Germany we find the exquisite tools used<br />
to perform eye surgery. More extraordinary still we uncover<br />
evidence of the most dangerous of all operations - brain<br />
surgery. Finally we explore the workings of what is still<br />
one of the most highly contentious finds from the ancient<br />
world - the Baghdad Battery suggested to be an electrical<br />
anaesthetic device.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBAD3 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBAD3<br />
Price $132<br />
Full Series<br />
Price $297<br />
ANCIENT DISCOVERIES<br />
SERIES 2<br />
Building on a highly successful first series,<br />
Ancient Discoveries unearths amazing<br />
technologies that we think of as modern, but<br />
which in fact date back to ancient times. The<br />
series travels back in time to uncover remarkably<br />
sophisticated inventions, and celebrate the<br />
ancient engineers whose ingenuity laid the<br />
foundations for technology as we know it today.<br />
SBS Television 2005.<br />
NEW<br />
2006<br />
Part 1<br />
Episode One explores the dangerous world of ancient warfare.<br />
Greek flame throwers, Roman missiles and 2000 year old<br />
tanks reveal that so-called modern weapons have their roots<br />
in altogether more ancient ideas.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBAND1 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBAND1<br />
Price $132<br />
NEW<br />
2006<br />
Part 2<br />
Episode Two uncovers the revolutionary work of ancient<br />
shipbuilders, whose vessels rivalled modern cruise liners<br />
in their scale and opulence. Dragged from the depths of an<br />
Italian lake, the Nemi ships were the Titanics of the ancient<br />
world.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBAND2 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBAND2<br />
Price $132<br />
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Part 3<br />
Episode Three travels back in time to reveal the ingenious<br />
machines that the ancients used to harness natural power.<br />
Could the Romans have had the first industrial revolution,<br />
2000 years before we like to think it happened?<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBAND3 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBAND3<br />
Price $132<br />
Full Series<br />
Price $297<br />
Map Makers<br />
The Map Makers is a beautiful and<br />
compelling 3 part series on the history and<br />
major developments in map making. A map<br />
is more than a geographical representation<br />
of land. It is an image which mirrors a<br />
society’s political, religious and cultural<br />
vision of itself. Each episode includes period<br />
reconstructions, beautiful location sequences and expert<br />
interviews.<br />
Episode 1: The Waldseemuller Map 1507<br />
There was a time when the edges of our world were a<br />
mystery. The discovery of the ‘New World’ by explorers such<br />
as Columbus and Vespucci, changed the way people would<br />
view the world forever.<br />
Episode 2: The Mercator Atlas 1572<br />
The struggle for religious dominance and power in 16th<br />
Century Europe led to the production of a map by the world<br />
famous geographer, Mercator.<br />
Episode 3: D-Day Invasion Maps<br />
This is the fascinating story of maps during wartime,<br />
featuring the tale of “Bigot Maps” and the stories of bravery<br />
and treachery that precipitated their creation.<br />
SBS Teleivion 2004 Duration 3 x 60min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBMM <strong>VHS</strong> - SBMM<br />
Price $39.95
THE WORLD IN ART<br />
Covering 4 years; 1571, 1603, 1776, and<br />
1812, this series provides a global snapshot<br />
of the arts that defined time. Major historical<br />
events frame each film, focusing on the<br />
particular artists, poets and books, architects<br />
and composers who earned a place in history.<br />
Topics covered include Martin Luther, Queen Elizabeth,<br />
William Shakespeare, Don Quixote, Jean-Jacques Rousseau,<br />
Napoleon, The brothers Grimm, Ludwig von Beethoven and<br />
many more.<br />
Produced by Timeless Productions Inc in association with History<br />
Television Inc., BBC and Alliance Atlantis Duration 4 x 49min<br />
1571 <strong>DVD</strong> - 6GNWA1 <strong>VHS</strong> - GNWA1<br />
1603 <strong>DVD</strong> - 6GNWA2 <strong>VHS</strong> - GNWA2<br />
1776 <strong>DVD</strong> - 6GNWA3 <strong>VHS</strong> - GNWA3<br />
1812 <strong>DVD</strong> - 6GNWA4 <strong>VHS</strong> - GNWA4<br />
Price $132 ea<br />
Series Price $385<br />
Causes Of World War I<br />
On this CD ROM you can explore the political, economic, and<br />
social factors and events that gave rise to the war. Compare<br />
the goals of major powers with war outcomes and see how<br />
the tensions of prosperity and imperialism led to the creation<br />
of alliances, an arms race, and irreversibly to conflict.<br />
CD ROM - 99ZCWW Price $88<br />
Causes Of World War II<br />
Explore how events and consequences of World War I sowed<br />
the seeds for a new conflict. This program chronicles the rise<br />
to power of new totalitarian regimes and the events that led<br />
to global conflict.<br />
CD ROM - 99ZCWW2 Price $88<br />
Columbus And The Age Of Discovery<br />
On this CD ROM you can trace the history of global exploration<br />
from the migrations of prehistoric peoples to the Portuguese,<br />
Columbus, and through to the Space Age. Examine the<br />
important role of explorers, with special emphasis on the life<br />
of Christopher Columbus.<br />
CD ROM - 99ZCAD Price $88<br />
Cradles Of Civilisation<br />
On this CD ROM you can explore the military, political,<br />
economic, social, cultural and intellectual achievements of<br />
humanity from prehistoric cultures to the rise and fall of the<br />
Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilisations. Examine how the<br />
modern civilisation is a product of efforts by numerous races<br />
and cultures.<br />
CD ROM - 99ZCC Price $88<br />
Imperialism<br />
On this CD ROM you can explore the rationales and<br />
motives for imperialism using three case studies. Examine<br />
the establishment, methods of operation and legacies of<br />
imperialism of the Spanish in Latin America, the British in<br />
India, and the multinational division of Africa in the 19th<br />
century.<br />
CD ROM - 99ZIM Price $88<br />
Industrial Revolution<br />
On this CD ROM you can examine the underlying conditions<br />
for industrialisation, its rise in Britain and subsequent spread<br />
to the rest of the world. Explore how industrialisation has<br />
altered human existence throughout the world.<br />
CD ROM - 99ZIR Price $88<br />
Greek And Roman World<br />
Examine the uniqueness of the cultures of the Aegean Greeks,<br />
Italian Romans, Imperial Romans and Mediterranean Greeks.<br />
Explore the contributions in art, literature, politics, philosophy,<br />
education and the sciences by these four ancient peoples.<br />
CD ROM - 99ZGRW Price $88<br />
Ancient Rome<br />
Survey the important events in Rome from 1000 BC the late<br />
5th century AD. Territorial expansions, customs and beliefs,<br />
governments and armies are examined through works by<br />
Roman artists.<br />
CD ROM - 99ZA02 Price $88<br />
Everyday Life In Ancient Egypt<br />
Examine the rulers, traditions, beliefs and battles of ancient<br />
Egypt. The life and death for the rich, poor and Pharaohs.<br />
Explore mummification, pyramids, artefacts and the<br />
hieroglyphics of this ancient civilisation.<br />
CD ROM - 99ZELAE Price $88<br />
Ancient Greece<br />
Explore the humanistic spirit and magnificence of this<br />
civilisation through its stunning sculpture and architecture.<br />
Examine how religion, government, social life and art were<br />
interdependant.<br />
CD ROM - 99ZAO1 Price $88<br />
Fascist Dictatorship<br />
Examine the historical and philosophical roots of fascism as<br />
you trace the rise to power and subsequent fall of Mussolini<br />
and Hitler, among others. This program shows the relationship<br />
between fascism and democracy and relates the legacy of<br />
fascism after World War II.<br />
CD ROM - 99ZFD Price $88<br />
Great Depression<br />
This CD ROM analyses the background and conditions that led<br />
to economic chaos. Examine President Hoovers philosophy<br />
towards the New Deal and the impact of World War II, and see<br />
the impact of the Depression on the lives of ordinary people.<br />
CD ROM - 99ZGD Price $88<br />
French Revolution<br />
Explore the rise of autocratic nation states in Europe in the<br />
16th to 18th centuries, the structure of French society, and<br />
key events of the Revolution as it progressed.<br />
CD ROM - 99ZFR Price $88<br />
Rise And Fall Of The British Empire<br />
On this CD ROM you can survey the dramatic story of the<br />
British Empire, from its beginnings in the 16th century to its<br />
end in the 20th. Examine the origins, development, effects<br />
and legacies of Britain’s colonial stewardship.<br />
CD ROM - 99ZRFBE Price $88<br />
Russian Revolution CD ROM<br />
On this CD ROM you can examine the Russian political and<br />
economic saga from its early history of Mongol invasions to<br />
the increasing regimentation of the people by the state under<br />
Peter the Great.<br />
CD ROM - 99ZRR Price $88<br />
My Brother’s Keeper<br />
On this CD ROM you can examine the Holocaust, the Warsaw<br />
ghetto uprising and Jewish persecution through the paintings<br />
of Israel Bernbaum, archival photographs and first-hand<br />
accounts. This CD shows the immense injustices of the<br />
Holocaust and reinforces the importance of religious, racial<br />
and ethnic tolerance.<br />
CD ROM - 99ZMBK Price $88<br />
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OUT OF THE PAST SERIES<br />
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question “Why study dead<br />
cultures?” Introduction to<br />
archaeology, anthropology and<br />
ancient history. 8 x 52min<br />
Titles Include:<br />
New Worlds<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - RWOP1<br />
Hearth<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - RWOP2<br />
Artisans And Traders<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - RWOP3<br />
Signs And Symbols<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - RWOP4<br />
Power Prestige And Wealth<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - RWOP5<br />
Realms<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - RWOP6<br />
Spirit World<br />
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Collapse<br />
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Trade Routes<br />
This program brings together living storytellers to uncover<br />
historical Aboriginal trade routes across Australia long before<br />
white settlement.<br />
SBS Television<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBRBS1<br />
Price $104.5<br />
Changing Culture<br />
This program looks at the lives of two<br />
Aborigines who leave their home to<br />
experience success in new environments,<br />
and regularly return home, although their<br />
sense of belonging has been altered.<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBRBS2<br />
Price $104.5<br />
Warriors<br />
This program focuses on resistance against the white<br />
invaders. Reminiscences of descendants are woven through<br />
the story, drawing on the continuity of the Aboriginal warrior<br />
tradition. Also explored are early aspects of Sydney life.<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBRBS3<br />
Price $104.5<br />
Sacred Sites<br />
Aborigines believe that land and people are<br />
inseparable. To them, their sacred sites<br />
represent the expression of total reverence<br />
for nature and mankind. This episode<br />
examines the relationship of Aborigines to<br />
various sacred sites.<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBRBS4<br />
Price $104.5<br />
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Women<br />
Aboriginal women are becoming the firm inspiration for<br />
Aboriginal peoples. This episode focuses on Aboriginal women<br />
who have fought to overcome the pressures of contemporary<br />
society, and created a new age and regard for themselves<br />
and their people.<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBRBS5<br />
Price $104.5<br />
Survivors<br />
This episode looks at Aboriginals of mixed<br />
racial descent, it examines the question of<br />
Aboriginal identity, and discusses the stage<br />
at which Aboriginals of mixed racial descent<br />
cease to call themselves Aboriginals.<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBRBS6<br />
Price $104.5<br />
Full Series<br />
Price $415<br />
Two Weeks Off Work<br />
Janine Hayes was taken from her family when she was young<br />
and fostered into a white family. This program shows her<br />
visiting her Aboriginal family at an older age, following her<br />
personal struggle to come to terms with her mixed feelings<br />
and the mixed feelings from her Aboriginal family.<br />
SBS Televison Duration 53min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBTW<br />
Price $132<br />
Gladiatrix<br />
After her divorce, twenty-five-year-old<br />
mother of two Sharon Carter decided to do<br />
something extraordinary by joining a Roman<br />
re-enactment group and enter the arena to<br />
fight as “Amazonia”, a 1st Century Celtic<br />
warrior-woman from Britain. But Sharon’s<br />
desire to fight in the arena is tempered when<br />
she is told she must use a double-headed<br />
axe and fight against the male gladiators to be truly authentic.<br />
This is a story of Sharon’s struggle to win the respect of her<br />
peers and fight for the honour of the wooden sword of freedom.<br />
Along the journey Sharon learns something about herself and<br />
being a single mum in 21st Century Brisbane.<br />
SBS Teleivion 2005 Duration 26 min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBGLA <strong>VHS</strong> - SBGLA<br />
Price $132<br />
The Colony<br />
Australia’s first living history series is a<br />
blend of historical discovery, social jeopardy,<br />
adventure challenge and experiential learning<br />
as pampered 21st Century ‘pioneers’ attempt<br />
to prove they’re tough enough to survive their<br />
historical ordeal. Against this backdrop,<br />
the series explores the gripping story of the<br />
first settlements brutal, often bloody conflict between races<br />
(Aboriginal, Irish and English), classes (convicts, free settlers<br />
and military) and men and women. A British and and Irish<br />
family are shipped to the far side of the world to join an<br />
Australian family. They enter an isolated world, cut off from<br />
civilsation in almost every respect. They have to cope with<br />
the lack of creature comforts as well as the gruelling chores of<br />
daily life. How did the three European families, their volunteer<br />
convicts and Aboriginal people come together to face the<br />
challenges of early European settlement on the frontier?<br />
Titles include:<br />
When Worlds Collide<br />
Survival<br />
This Land Is Ours<br />
Rebellion<br />
After The Storm<br />
Back To The Future<br />
SBS Television 2005 Duration 6 x 50min on one <strong>DVD</strong><br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBCOL<br />
Price $198<br />
NEW<br />
2006<br />
NEW<br />
2006<br />
The Habits Of New Norcia<br />
The Benedictine Monastery of New Norcia,<br />
the only monastic town in Australia, was<br />
until 1973 New Norcia Mission, home to<br />
generations of Aboriginal children. It was<br />
an orphanage without orphans, as none of<br />
the children were there because they had<br />
no parents. The children suffered terrible<br />
hardships; used as child labourers, starvation let them to be<br />
forced to eat the food set aside for the chickens, and cruel<br />
punishments were part of their daily existence. Several of the<br />
children, now adults aged from 34 to 84, return to the mission<br />
to recount their version of their history on display. Today the<br />
Monastery at New Norica presents itself as a popular tourist<br />
attraction.<br />
SBS Australia 2003 Duration 53min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBHNN<br />
Price $132
21st CENTURY<br />
ABORIGINAL<br />
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This is a series which takes a look at the use<br />
of modern technological advancements by the<br />
world’s oldest people. It is an intriguing look at the<br />
way the Internet is helping Australian Aboriginals<br />
market and sell their art and propagate their<br />
culture. The series features breathtaking scenery<br />
of Arnhem Land - an area never before caught<br />
on film. We examine the global impact of the<br />
web on the Aboriginal culture. Produced by TVF<br />
International 2001. 6TV21AB<br />
Part 1<br />
We see how people survived off the land,<br />
and the ancient method of making fire<br />
sticks from Pandanus grass as a continuous<br />
source of energy. We see how paint brushes<br />
were made and the natural ochres mixed to<br />
make paint. Explore how nature provides<br />
antibiotics and cure all’s for every illness and how these<br />
ancient methods are still practiced today.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6TV21AB1 <strong>VHS</strong> - TV21AB1<br />
Price $143<br />
Part 2<br />
Learn the traditions of Burial and the meaning behind<br />
art work which cover the rock walls and caves. Aboriginal<br />
artists discuss their work and how some combine traditional<br />
methods and 21st Century technology in the works created.<br />
Learn what the Internet means to them.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6TV21AB2 <strong>VHS</strong> - TV21AB2<br />
Price $143<br />
Part 3<br />
In this episode we see from the humble beginnings sketched<br />
on butchers paper, to the initial one-page website, through<br />
to the publicly listed company it is today, with a website<br />
catalogue in excess of 1200 pages as the E-commerce<br />
Company Aboriginal Australia. Examined is the role of<br />
cyberspace in the sale of Authentic Aboriginal art and culture<br />
and the lucrative international tourist industry. We see the<br />
inner workings of the website, from the remote communities<br />
input, page design, to the finished product.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6TV21AB3 <strong>VHS</strong> - TV21AB3<br />
Price $143<br />
Full Series<br />
Price $418<br />
Sorry Proof Country<br />
In 1997 the ‘Bringing Them Home’ report was<br />
released. One of those recommendations was<br />
that a ‘Sorry Day’ be set aside annually to<br />
commemorate Indigenous Australians taken<br />
from their families. ‘Sorry Proof Country’<br />
encapsulates the history of some of these<br />
moving and sometimes controversial events<br />
BEST<br />
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since the release of this report. Share the journey as it reflects<br />
over the past six years to embrace a new awareness through<br />
acknowledgment, and become part of the journey of healing to<br />
really understand the meaning behind National Sorry Day.<br />
Indigenous Australian Productions 2003 Duration 24min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6IAPSP <strong>VHS</strong> - IAPSP<br />
Price $132<br />
Sir… Australia Since Federation<br />
‘Sir...” is a satire on the changing community<br />
attitudes in Australia since Federation.<br />
‘Sir...’ asks us to reflect on why we behved<br />
as we did, and challenges us to seek more<br />
satisfactory and lasting solutions for the<br />
problems ahead. This program is divided<br />
into eight main segments: Federation times,<br />
BEST<br />
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World War I, The Great Depression, World War II, The Fifties,<br />
The Swinging Sixties, The Prodigal Eighties and Now, post<br />
September 11.<br />
Jack Opie 2003 Study Guides Duration 22min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SIRAU <strong>VHS</strong> - SIRAU<br />
Price $132<br />
Babarkiuria<br />
BEST<br />
In 1988, Australia celebrated the two SELLER<br />
hundredth anniversary of white European<br />
settlement in Australia. ‘Babakiueria’ is<br />
a light-hearted satire that reverses the<br />
roles, imagining what it would be like if a<br />
black fleet arrived to try and settle an area<br />
inhabited by white natives.<br />
ABC Australia 1987 Duration 30min FIRM SALE ONLY<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - ABAB<br />
Price $165<br />
Unholy Orders<br />
This moving account traces the story of abuse in Scottish<br />
orphanages by Catholic nuns. Following the newspaper<br />
release of the abuse, a class action formed in the late 1990’s<br />
and quickly escalated to represent 450 people. Claims are for<br />
abuse that spread from the 1920s to late 70s, and charges<br />
the nuns with degrading and inhumane punishment. Cath<br />
Yeomans, now living in Australia, is the oldest claimant. She<br />
and her sisters spent ten years in the ‘care’ of the Sisters of<br />
Nazareth in Glasgow.<br />
SBS Televison 2003 Duration 30min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBUO<br />
Price $121<br />
History - Australia A Way Of Life<br />
Being inhabited for over 45000 years by Aboriginal’s,<br />
Australia is concidered to have both one of the oldest cultures<br />
in the world and one of the youngest. It explores the brief<br />
history of Australia as a nation from the first Dutch explorers<br />
and James Cook to today. Shown is the First Fleet, convicts,<br />
the Gold Rush, explorers, cattle stations, the paddle steamer<br />
and more.<br />
Duration 30min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6MPHSA <strong>VHS</strong> - MPHSA<br />
Price $132<br />
Women Of The Earth<br />
This program documents the extraordinary relationship<br />
between Aboriginal women, the Dreamtime and the Earth.<br />
It examines women of the Nganyinytja, Dhuwa, Martu and<br />
Pitjantjatjara tribes, and how they play an important role in<br />
food and tradition.<br />
Rising Tide Films Australia Duration 55min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 88RISWE <strong>VHS</strong> - RISWE<br />
Price $137.5<br />
Up For Grabs<br />
This program represents a graphic history of early Aboriginal<br />
resistance to the white invasion, and an inside look at the<br />
development of Aboriginal political processes, culminating<br />
in the winning of land rights from successive white<br />
governments.<br />
SBS Television Duration 55min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBUFG<br />
Price $104<br />
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indigenous history<br />
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australian history<br />
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THROUGH<br />
AUSTRALIAN EYES<br />
Six young Australian girls trace their roots as they<br />
make a journey of discovery to their parents’<br />
homeland. The cultural differences between the<br />
new home country of these young Australians<br />
and the traditions of their parents’ home country<br />
are striking. SBS Australia. 6SBTAE<br />
China<br />
In this program, Ellen Youie goes to China for<br />
the first time. She visits the villages where<br />
her parents have grown up, she visits her<br />
family and explores the cultural differences<br />
between China and Australia, which gives<br />
the program a unique prospective.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBTAEC <strong>VHS</strong> - SBTAEC<br />
Price $121<br />
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Greece<br />
In this program, Angela Sarantis from Wollongong visits<br />
Greece. She traces her roots as she makes this journey to<br />
her parents’ homeland. The cultural differences between<br />
Australia and Greece come to light.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBTAEG <strong>VHS</strong> - SBTAEG<br />
Price $121<br />
Hungary<br />
In this program, Debbie Karp of Bondi visits the country where<br />
her mother was born. She traces her roots as she makes this<br />
journey to her parents’ homeland. The cultural differences<br />
between Hungary and Australia stand out.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBTAEH <strong>VHS</strong> - SBTAEH<br />
Price $121<br />
India<br />
In this program, Jesse Tandy from a Sikh family working<br />
a banana plantation at Woolgoolga returns to India and<br />
traces her roots as she makes this journey to her parent’s<br />
homeland. The cultural differences between Australia and<br />
India are explored.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBTAEI <strong>VHS</strong> - SBTAEI<br />
Price $121<br />
Italy<br />
In this program, sixteen year old Rosemary Agostino visits her<br />
mother’s place of birth: Conflenti. Amazingly, life here seems<br />
still far away from the modern world. Through her visit,<br />
interesting differences between the Italian and Australian<br />
cultures are explored.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBTAEIT <strong>VHS</strong> - SBTAEIT<br />
Price $121<br />
Yugoslavia<br />
In this program, young Duska Franic returns to Croatia where<br />
her parents were born. She traces her roots as she makes this<br />
journey to her parents’ homeland. The difference between the<br />
Australian culture and the Yugoslavian culture stands out.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBTAEY <strong>VHS</strong> - SBTAEY<br />
Price $121<br />
Full Series<br />
Price $407<br />
Kidnapped<br />
It is a little known fact that between 1863 and 1904, 60,000<br />
South Pacific Islanders worked in slave labour conditions in<br />
the QLD sugar cane fields. Debra Beattie’s ‘Kidnapped’, is<br />
about the descendants of these kidnapped islanders and their<br />
courage to refuse to be scarred by the past.<br />
SBS Australia Duration 26min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBKI<br />
Price $104.5<br />
Australian History Part 1<br />
This program investigates some of the major events that<br />
have shaped Australia as a nation. Topics include: The First<br />
Australians, Early Exploration, European Settlement, Gold<br />
Rush and the Eureka Stockade, Bushrangers, Living and<br />
Working Conditions Prior to 1900, Federation and the White<br />
Australia Policy and World War 1.<br />
Classroom Video 2002 Duration 23min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 88CVAH1 <strong>VHS</strong> - CVAH1<br />
Price $99<br />
Australian History Part 2<br />
Following on from Part one, this program examines The<br />
Great Depression, The Stolen Generation, World War II, The<br />
1956 Melbourne Olympics, The Vietnam War, The 1975<br />
Constitutional Crisis, The Royal Commission into Aboriginal<br />
Deaths in Custody, The Mabo Decision and The 2000 Sydney<br />
Olympics.<br />
Classroom Video 2002 Duration 23min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 88CVAH2 <strong>VHS</strong> - CVAH2<br />
Price $99<br />
Lalai Dreamtime - Floating Time<br />
‘Lalai Dreamtime’ is an attempt to reconstruct Aboriginal<br />
history through the memories of Aboriginal elders. ‘Floating<br />
Time’ develops this concept further.<br />
SBS Australia Duration 109min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBLAD<br />
Price $132<br />
Mission Accomplished<br />
Today, close to eighty percent of Aboriginal people call<br />
themselves Christian. Vivian Schenker reports on the effects<br />
Anglo-Saxon Christian ideals have had on Aboriginal culture<br />
and questions what this has achieved.<br />
SBS Australia Duration 60min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBMIA<br />
Price $132<br />
Grandfathers And Revolutions<br />
Several years after arriving in Australia with his mother and<br />
two sisters, 22 year old Brisbane filmmaker Peter Hegedus<br />
received some Hungarian secret government documents<br />
from the 1950’s which revealed the execution order of an<br />
innocent 20 year old man. He was shocked to realise that<br />
these documents could possibly have been implemented by<br />
his grandfather Andras Hegedus, who was the Prime Minister<br />
at the time of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.<br />
SBS Television Duration 52min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBGR<br />
Price $132<br />
Fortress Australia<br />
This program uncovers one of the most extraordinary chapters<br />
in Australia’s history - the brazen attempt by successive<br />
Australian governments to fortress the nation with atomic<br />
weapons. This film reveals a web of intrigue as it penetrates a<br />
world of diplomatic double dealing and atomic espionage.<br />
Film Australia Duration 21min FIRM SALE ONLY <strong>VHS</strong> - FAFAUS<br />
Price $104.5
Bob Brought The War Home<br />
The War ended in Vietnam 30 years ago, but for Vietnam<br />
Veteran Bob Harrison and his family, there has been little<br />
peace. Bob Brought the War Home is an emotional story of a<br />
man who at 20 years old, was called up for National Service<br />
and sent to fight in the Vietnam War. This film takes us into<br />
the war-ravaged home of the Harrisons and boldly shows us<br />
what, with the luck of the draw, any Australian family might<br />
have gone through.<br />
SBS Television 2004 Duration 26min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBBBW <strong>VHS</strong> - SBBBW<br />
Price $132<br />
John Simpson Kirkpatrick<br />
This program details the events that led<br />
John Simpson Kirkpatrick, one of the<br />
unlikeliest heroes to emerge from World War<br />
I, to leave his home town and family and<br />
join the merchant navy before jumping ship<br />
when it reached Australia. This program<br />
takes in the emotion of the Anzac Day dawn service of 2001<br />
at Gallipoli, features Ashley Elkins from the Australian War<br />
Memorial in Canberra providing historical knowledge, and a<br />
local journalist and historian in South Shields.<br />
SBS Television 2004 Duration 49min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBJSK <strong>VHS</strong> - SBJSK<br />
Price $132<br />
The Executioners<br />
The death penalty has always been<br />
surrounded by a great deal of controversy,<br />
and yet little has been said about those<br />
actually responsible for carrying out the<br />
deed itself - the executioners. Where do<br />
they come from? How do they prepare for<br />
such work? Are they able to lead a normal<br />
social life? What effect does their work have on them? How<br />
did the lives of executioners in the 16th century differ from<br />
those of the 20th century? Underlying the long history of<br />
this ‘gruesome profession’ and the men who practiced it,<br />
is an extraordinary human adventure intimately linked with<br />
society’s attitudes toward the death penalty.<br />
Ampersand 2004 Duration 52min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6AMPEXE <strong>VHS</strong> - AMPEXE<br />
Price $132<br />
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Hoovers Gold<br />
2006<br />
By the late 1890s, Western Australia’s Goldfields were a<br />
lure for ambitious young men from all parts of the globe. One<br />
adventurer was a 23-year-old American, Herbert Hoover,<br />
the future 31st President of the USA. Working on behalf of<br />
London’s Bewick Moreing and Company, he helped pioneer<br />
one of the richest gold mines in Australian history - the Sons<br />
of Gwalia. Recreated scenes and the personal stories of the<br />
descendants of the Italian and Australian Workers engaged<br />
at the Sons of Gwalia mine bring history to life in this tale of<br />
triumph and tragedy, ambition and shattered dreams.<br />
Mago Films/SBSI 2005 Duration 52mins<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6ABHOGO <strong>VHS</strong> - ABHOGO<br />
Price $110<br />
Life At The Beginning Of The 20th Century<br />
This program focuses on living conditions and everyday life<br />
in Western nations at the beginning of the twentieth century.<br />
Subjects explored - housing, cooking, clothes, domestic<br />
service, education, transport and leisure. Themes include:<br />
changing role of women; urbanisation; class division and<br />
distribution of wealth; and technological change.<br />
Classroom Video 2004 Study Notes Duration 31min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 88CVLBTC <strong>VHS</strong> - CVLBTC<br />
Price $99<br />
The Colour Of War - ANZACS<br />
This is the story of Australia and New<br />
Zealand at war as never seen before. For the<br />
first time, only original colour footage is used<br />
to paint a vividly detailed picture of these<br />
closely allied nations, from the build up to<br />
World War Two to the end of the Vietnam<br />
conflict. Newly discovered films and home<br />
movies along with diary and letter extracts allow viewers a<br />
very personal connection with the war experience, both on<br />
the battlefield and on the homefront. In colour, that shared<br />
history becomes even more intimate and involving. Narrated<br />
by Russell Crowe, this powerful and moving three-part series<br />
captures the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people caught<br />
up in world-shattering events.<br />
Duration 3x55min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 88RO104518 <strong>VHS</strong> - RO104518<br />
Price $66<br />
Korean ANZACS<br />
In the frontline of the Korean War Australian<br />
soldier Ron Cashman befriended two South<br />
Korean conscripts. Fifty years later he is<br />
meeting them for the first time since the<br />
war. Korean ANZAC’s is the story of how this<br />
friendship helped Ron make peace with the<br />
war after forty years of suffering from post traumatic stress<br />
disorder. Produced in association with the Australian Film<br />
Commission and the NSW Film And Television Office.<br />
SBS Television Duration 52min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBKA <strong>VHS</strong> - SBKA<br />
Price $132<br />
Welcome To Woomera<br />
This is a film about ordinary people in a small town caught<br />
up in big events. As Australia’s only purpose-built defence<br />
village, Woomera has been famous for its rocket range, as<br />
home to Americans from the Nurrungar base and, most<br />
recently, for its controversial immigration reception and<br />
processing centre. But the centre has closed and the town<br />
is in danger of closing too. Once heralded as a model of<br />
suburban living then reviled as a “desert jail”, this film looks<br />
at Woomera from the inside and follows the town’s struggle<br />
to stay alive. As a government town however, its future is not<br />
necessarily in the community’s own hands.<br />
Film Australia 2004 Duration 55min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - FAWTW<br />
Price $104.5<br />
WWII - Conflict In The Pacific Part 1<br />
This program covers topics including: the emergence of Japan<br />
as a major power; the US Neutrality Act; the Second Sino-<br />
Japanese War; Japanese occupation of Indochina; Japanese<br />
strategy for war against the USA and Britain. It also looks at<br />
the bombing of Pearl Harbour, the fall of Singapore and the<br />
bombing of Darwin.<br />
Classroom Video 2004 Study Notes Duration 25min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 88CVCTP1 <strong>VHS</strong> - CVCTP1<br />
Price $99<br />
WWII - Conflict In The Pacific Part 2<br />
This program covers topics including: allied strategy against<br />
Japan; battle of the Coral Sea; battle of Midway; Guadalcanall;<br />
the cult of Bushido, New Guinea, island-hopping; Yalta<br />
Conference; Iwo Jima; Okinawa; Potsdam Conference; the<br />
A-bomb and subsequent controversy over its use; allied<br />
occupation of Japan (1945-52); and consequences of the<br />
war in the Pacific.<br />
Classroom Video 2004 Study Notes Duration 28min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 88CVCTP2 <strong>VHS</strong> - CVCTP2<br />
Price $99<br />
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TALES FROM A<br />
SUITCASE SERIES 1<br />
This series documents moving accounts of<br />
the lives of migrants from Europe and Asia<br />
during the immediate post-war period of 1946<br />
- 1952. Sometimes, people came to Australia<br />
simply because the queues were shorter, and<br />
perhaps they were beguiled by the idea of a<br />
place with sunny weather. Many chose Australia<br />
for one reason only - it was safe. Each person’s<br />
tale reveals the migrant experience in raw and<br />
moving detail. Produced by Will Davis, SBS<br />
Television. SBTSS<br />
Tape 1<br />
Gerard Havekas from Holland<br />
Lola Harding-Irmer from Germany<br />
Alfa & Enoe Di Stefana from Italy<br />
Duration 3x26min <strong>VHS</strong> - SBTSS1<br />
Tape 2<br />
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Harry Malcher from Austria<br />
Father Luciano from Italy<br />
Duration 3x26min <strong>VHS</strong> - SBTSS2<br />
Tape 3<br />
Nina and Helen Macris from Greece<br />
Sava Spasojevic from Yugoslavia<br />
Stefania Sochan from Poland/Russia<br />
Duration 3x26min <strong>VHS</strong> - SBTSS3<br />
Tape 4<br />
Martina Reigus from Lithuania<br />
Elmar Saarepere from The Baltic State<br />
Natalie Oulianoff from the Ukraine<br />
Duration 3x26min <strong>VHS</strong> - SBTSS4<br />
Tape 5<br />
Robert Sardy form Hungry<br />
Meitek Swat from Poland<br />
Anatole Konovets from Russia<br />
Duration 3x26min <strong>VHS</strong> - SBTSS5<br />
Tape 6<br />
Peter Oulianoff from Ukraine/Russia<br />
Pat Hesse from Sri Lanka<br />
Keith Stodden Pt 1 Aust Immigration Dept<br />
Duration 3x26min <strong>VHS</strong> - SBTSS6<br />
Tape 7<br />
Keith Stodden Pt 2 Aust Immigration Dept<br />
John Diaz from Spain<br />
Paul Couvret form Indonesia/ Dutch East Indies<br />
Duration 3x26min <strong>VHS</strong> - SBTSS7<br />
Tape 8<br />
Bill Moran from USA/serviceman<br />
Samad Amjah from Malaysia<br />
Anne Duffy-Lindsay from Ireland<br />
King Fong form Suva Fiji Chinese Decent<br />
Duration 4x26min <strong>VHS</strong> - SBTSS8<br />
Price $66 each<br />
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Tales From A Suitcase<br />
The Afghan Experience Series<br />
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This series recounts the extraordinary<br />
experiences of Australia’s post-war migrants,<br />
mixing the poignant and heart-wrenching with<br />
the humorous and uplifting, ‘Tales from a<br />
Suitcase’ constructs a historical mosaic of postwar<br />
immigration while revealing the thoughts<br />
of men and women from around the globe who<br />
devoted their lives to building a better Australia.<br />
SBS Television 2001.<br />
Episode 1<br />
Episode 1: Beppi Polese and Giuseppe de Carlo; Episode 2:<br />
Ron and Krys Pawlowski; and Episode 3: Hideko Coombes.<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBTFS1<br />
Price $66<br />
Episode 2<br />
Episode 4: Henry Sue. Episode; 5: Sasha Nekvapil and Frank<br />
Prihoda; and Episode 6: Frank Buzolic.<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBTFS1<br />
Price $66<br />
Episode 3<br />
Episode 7: Jutta Malnic; Episode 8: Victor Vadiveloo; and<br />
Episode 9: Rinaldo Fabbro.<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBTFS3<br />
Price $66<br />
Episode 4<br />
Episode 10: Chris Gatz; Episode 11: Leopoldine Mimovich;<br />
Episode 12: Nicolas Habib; and Episode 13: Denis George.<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBTFS4<br />
Price $66<br />
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In this seven-part series, a range of Afghan people relate<br />
the circumstances of their journies to Australia from the late<br />
1970’s to the present. It is the story of the broad mosaic<br />
of their time: first under Communist, then Mujaheddin and<br />
finally Taliban control. Some were refugees who took the<br />
highly dangerous sea voyage to Australia, only to be thrown<br />
into detention centres. For others, the memories are of<br />
violence and death, of dispossession and escape, and the<br />
deep sadness of a family left behind.<br />
SBS Television 2002 Duration 7x30min on 2 tapes<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBTFSA<br />
Price $93.5
Seeking Asylum<br />
Seeking Asylum includes harrowing<br />
interviews with asylum seekers who have<br />
risked their lives at the hands of people<br />
smugglers and now live in the community<br />
for 30 months on Temporary Protection<br />
Visas. Having made a perilous open-sea<br />
journey on unseaworthy wooden river boats,<br />
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all speak with fear and trepidation about their escape from<br />
persecution, torture and often death at the hands of fanatical<br />
fundamentalist regimes including Afghanistan’s former<br />
Taliban government.<br />
SBS Television 2002 Duration 50min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBSEA <strong>VHS</strong> - SBSEA<br />
Price $132<br />
Film Australia’s Immigration<br />
When Australia embarked on its mass migration program<br />
after World War Two, it was with a movie camera in hand.<br />
Film Australia, as the Government’s film unit, made films<br />
to attract migrants and to change attitudes to new arrivals.<br />
More recently, it made films about how migrants themselves<br />
were changed by coming here and the impact they had on<br />
shaping the nation. Film Australia’s Immigration presents a<br />
selection of fascinating films from this historically significant<br />
collection, along with contemporary interviews with some<br />
of the people who made them and some who were in them.<br />
Combined with a website and study guide, this <strong>DVD</strong> is a<br />
superb educational resource.<br />
Duration 195min <strong>DVD</strong> - 88FAIMG<br />
Price $225<br />
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Long Road To Olympia<br />
2006<br />
In an ageless domination of the world by mercenaries and<br />
merchants, against all odds, we follow Culturebank and<br />
Nunukul Yuggera, an Indigenous performance group from<br />
Australia, as they leap the hurdles of social, political, racial<br />
and financial obstacles to reveal a deep and eloquent expose<br />
of eco-cultural content. Rich wildlife and nature photography<br />
combined with montage invokes an intimate experience of the<br />
landscape, culture and totems of the Nunukul and Yuggera<br />
peoples of the east coast of Australia. This program is a<br />
rare insight into contemporary urban Australian Indigenous<br />
culture and multiculturalism in action. Culminating in a<br />
finale, we see Culturebank and Indigenous performance<br />
group Nunukul Yuggera tour through Greece, as part of the<br />
Cultural Olympiad, performing on sacred sites, including the<br />
original running track in Olympia and the Herodus Atticus at<br />
the Acropolis in Athens.<br />
Culture Bank Productions 2005 Duration 30min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6CBLRO <strong>VHS</strong> - CBLRO<br />
Price $132<br />
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In Limbo<br />
2006<br />
In Limbo follows the story of a Vietnamese-Australian lawyer<br />
who is determined to see 2000 Vietnamese boat people<br />
stranded in the Philippines regain their lives, identities and<br />
homes. Hoi Trinh has been fighting for the rights of these<br />
people for more than five years. This film sees him battle the<br />
Australian Immigration Department bureaucracy as he tries<br />
to resettle 50 refugee families in Australia.<br />
Film Australia 2002 Duration 55min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - FAINLB<br />
Price $105<br />
Galileo’s Battle For The Heavens<br />
This is a documentary on the dramatic life<br />
of great Italian scientist Galileo Galilei,<br />
based on Dava Sobel’s best seller ‘Galileo’s<br />
Daughter’, which celebrates the story of the<br />
father of modern science and his struggle to<br />
get Church authorities to accept the truth<br />
of his astonishing discoveries. It includes<br />
re-enactments played by renowned British actor Simon<br />
Callow of key moments from Galieleo’s life, including: his<br />
pioneering telescopic observations of the Moon and planets,<br />
his revolutionary experiments with falling objects, and his<br />
fateful trial before the Inquisition for heresy.<br />
SBS Television 2003 Duration 2x60min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBGBH <strong>VHS</strong> - SBGBH<br />
Price $198<br />
Inventing Flight<br />
This program explores humankind’s<br />
historical preoccupation with the idea of<br />
flight as well as the life and times of the<br />
Wright Brothers. It provides an introduction,<br />
underlying appreciation and understanding<br />
of the challenges faced by the Wrights.<br />
It includes segments that describe how<br />
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the Wright Brothers used the scientific concepts of control,<br />
lift, propulsion, Newton’s Laws, drag, friction, energy and<br />
pressure, whilst introducing relevant vocabulary to help them<br />
design, test, and rework their flying machines.<br />
Agency for Instructional Learning 2003 Study guide Duration 60min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6AITIF <strong>VHS</strong> - AITIF<br />
Price $132<br />
Wright Brothers Flying Machine<br />
Orville and Wilbur Wright were remarkable<br />
inventors, mechanics, risk-takers, and<br />
visionaries. They designed and built their<br />
own wings, steering devices, engines and<br />
wind tunnel. Just how did they construct<br />
such an impressive flying machine? In<br />
this program, vivid footage captures both<br />
the Wrights’ own historic flights and the modern team’s<br />
attempt to fly an authentically recreated Wright ‘Model B.’<br />
As modern computer technology meets dusty artifacts, the<br />
Wrights’ aviation secrets emerge from the past and seem<br />
more impressive than ever. Discover how the Wright Brothers<br />
transformed themselves from bicycle mechanics to highflying<br />
inventors who built a machine that changed the world<br />
during a mythical flight at Kitty Hawk.<br />
SBS Australia 2003 Duration 60min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBWB <strong>VHS</strong> - SBWB<br />
Price $132<br />
Dead Men Talking<br />
‘Dead Man Talking’ is a series of medical biographies of the<br />
rich, the famous and the powerful. Each one-hour program<br />
has two componenets - a biography and a medical mystery.<br />
Modern forensics provides us with clues that may take us<br />
closer to understanding the intriguing lives and deaths of<br />
these famous and sometime infamous people.<br />
Titles Include:<br />
Adolf Hitler <strong>DVD</strong> - 6GNDMT01 <strong>VHS</strong> - GNDMT01<br />
Harry Houdini <strong>DVD</strong> - 6GNDMT02 <strong>VHS</strong> - GNDMT02<br />
Edgar Allan Poe <strong>DVD</strong> - 6GNDMT03 <strong>VHS</strong> - GNDMT03<br />
Marilyn Monroe <strong>DVD</strong> - 6GNDMT04 <strong>VHS</strong> - GNDMT04<br />
Vincent Van Gogh <strong>DVD</strong> - 6GNDMT05 <strong>VHS</strong> - GNDMT05<br />
Wolfgang Amadeus<br />
Mozart <strong>DVD</strong> - 6GNDMT06 <strong>VHS</strong> - GNDMT06<br />
Atlantis Alliance 2002 Duration 6 x 50min<br />
Price $132 each<br />
Set Price $550<br />
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Islam - History, Society And Civilisation<br />
Segments cover past and present day philosophies, practices<br />
and events that define Islam. This balanced program<br />
encourages students to consider how different interpretations<br />
of religion can affect government, culture and individual<br />
lives. Segments include The History and Teachings of Islam:<br />
surveys the religion practiced by more than a billion Muslims<br />
worldwide. Suleiman, Magnificent Leader: introduces the<br />
progressive Muslim ruler who helped make his empire the<br />
richest in the world and left a legacy of art, architecture and<br />
social reforms. The Crusades: chronicles how European<br />
Christians in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries battled<br />
Muslims to recover the Holy Land. Afghanistan 12 Years of<br />
Violence: discusses how the rigid rule of the Taliban brutally<br />
oppressed the people of Afghanistan.<br />
Discovery Channel School Duration 54min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISIHS <strong>VHS</strong> - DISIHS<br />
Price $137.5<br />
The Middle East - Land Of Contrast<br />
This ancient region gave rise to powerful civilisations and<br />
three of the world’s great religions. Comprehend recent<br />
events in the Middle East by viewing these happening against<br />
a historical background. Crossroads of Commerce: explores<br />
three cities that developed as focal points of Middle Eastern<br />
commerce and civilisation: Istanbul, Aleppo and Jerusalem.<br />
The Royal Tour of Jordan: reveals secret archaeological<br />
and historical sites. Jerusalem’s History: emphasises the<br />
important historical and spiritual connections of Muslims,<br />
Jews and Christians to this ancient city. The Call to Mecca:<br />
follows millions of Muslims on their annual pilgrimage in<br />
Saudi Arabia.<br />
Discovery Channel School Duration 54min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISME <strong>VHS</strong> - DISME<br />
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One Way Ticket To The USSR<br />
1946. Stalin calls on exiled Russians wishing<br />
to return to their motherland to “take part in<br />
the reconstruction of the country.” It is in<br />
France where this invitation is most heeded.<br />
On their arrival, however, these idealists<br />
were immediately suspected of being spies<br />
or agents of capitalist propaganda. Some were executed,<br />
most were deported or deprived of their civil rights. They were<br />
the first victims of the Cold War. Thousands of French citizens<br />
and their families were caught by Stalin’s trap and remained<br />
prisoners of the Soviet system for half a century. For the first<br />
time ever, the last survivors tell their incredible story.<br />
Ampersand 2004 Duration 52min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6AMPOWT <strong>VHS</strong> - AMPOWT<br />
Price $132<br />
Africa Today<br />
This presentation describes many ways of life in Africa<br />
and puts a human face on events and places in the news.<br />
Segments include. Testing Times: focus on students in the<br />
Democratic Republic of Congo as they take their country’s<br />
high school exams after year s of civil unrest and war. One<br />
Girl’s Life: introduces Asbeth, age 11, and follows her daily<br />
activities in Ethiopia. School for Girls: A Dream Comes True:<br />
tells the story of a girls’ high school in Tanzania, where<br />
students gain farming skills and tools to sustain themselves<br />
and their families. Medical Crisis in Africa: investigates the<br />
devastating impact of AIDS on Africa’s children and families.<br />
Living on the Forest’s Edge: examines how deforestation in<br />
Ghana affects rural life. Oil vs. Soil: shows the effects of oil<br />
drilling on farmers in Nigeria.<br />
Discovery Channel School Duration 54min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISAT <strong>VHS</strong> - DISAT<br />
Price $137.5<br />
Apartheid’s Last Stand<br />
In this program we travel to South Africa,<br />
where the country’s first black president,<br />
Nelson Mandela, has replaced 300 years<br />
of oppression with social reforms. But is<br />
the struggle truly over? This program brings<br />
us closer to the issues surrounding South<br />
Africians’ hard-won peace and the struggle<br />
to put economic hardship and psychological pain behind<br />
them.<br />
Discovery Channel School Duration 54min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISALS <strong>VHS</strong> - DISALS<br />
Price $137.5<br />
How The West Was Lost<br />
The history of 19th-century America is the<br />
story of struggles between settlers moving<br />
west and Native Americans trying to hold<br />
on to their ancestral territories. The clash<br />
between lifestyles and land rights forged a<br />
new land and unified an American culture,<br />
but in the process a venerable way of life<br />
was destroyed. Follow the Cherokee, Dakota, Lakota and Nez<br />
Perce as they fight to keep their homelands.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2002 Duration 48min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISHWL <strong>VHS</strong> - DISHWL<br />
Price $137.5<br />
Asia’s Global Influence<br />
Through this study, we consider economic<br />
situations in light of the political and cultural<br />
influences that help create them. Segments<br />
address current and historical issues. The<br />
Merchant of China: chronicles how merchants<br />
rose to power following Kublai Khan’s 13th<br />
century conquest of China. A Great Green Wall: describes the<br />
ongoing battle against deforestation and desertification as the<br />
Gobi encroaches on China’s land. A Personal Tour: presents<br />
a light-hearted view of Hong Kong and its residents. Rich<br />
and Poor: contrasts the starkly different economic situations<br />
experienced by North and South Korea. The Extended Family:<br />
portrays family life in a Vietnamese village, where a single<br />
house often shelters parents, children, grandparents and<br />
other relatives under one roof.<br />
Discovery Channel School Duration 54min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISAGI <strong>VHS</strong> - DISAGI<br />
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A Question Of Race<br />
Scientists are unable to pinpoint the gene<br />
that makes us Black, White or Asian. So<br />
were these labels manufactured as a way<br />
to identify a sub-species that doesn’t really<br />
exist? This program debates whether race<br />
is an accurate biological identification or a<br />
damaging artificial identifier. In part two of<br />
this program we see real-life situations of<br />
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racism, and witness how children perceive people different<br />
from themselves as psychology experts help us understand<br />
why this happens.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2002 Duration 52min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISQR <strong>VHS</strong> - DISQR<br />
Price $137.5
Treasures Of South America<br />
Tour the natural and historical treasures of<br />
one of the world’s most diverse continents.<br />
Meet two unique creatures of Galapagos that<br />
intrigued Charles Darwin. Travel to the ruins<br />
of the ancient Inca city of Cuzco, Peru. See<br />
the majestic cataracts at Iguazu Falls, where<br />
water and gravity collide.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2002 Study Notes Duration 26min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISTSA <strong>VHS</strong> - DISTSA<br />
Price $137.5<br />
The Great Wall Of China<br />
Stretching 1,500 miles from the Yellow Sea<br />
to the central Asian desert, the 2,000 year<br />
old Great Wall of China has shaped not only<br />
China’s past, but all of Europe’s as well.<br />
Meet a photographer whose passion for<br />
the Great Wall has driven him to uncover<br />
thousands of forgotten miles of the barrier built by China’s<br />
dynasties.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2002 Study Notes Duration 2x52min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISGWC <strong>VHS</strong> - DISGWC<br />
Price $137.5<br />
Austria Heritage Sites Of The World<br />
In this program you will see the Semmering Railway or Ghega<br />
line that follows a beautiful route through the Austrian Alps.<br />
Built between 1848 and 1854, the railway represented a<br />
triumph of civil engineering for the time. Salzburg was the<br />
city at the centre of salt production and the salt trade. Salt<br />
was the white gold that brought riches and power. Salzburg<br />
is also the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The city<br />
contains a wealth of gothic and baroque architecture.<br />
RNTV 2003 Duration 30min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RNHSA <strong>VHS</strong> - RNHSA<br />
Price $132<br />
Belgium<br />
Heritage Sites Of The World<br />
Brussels’ Grand Place has been celebrated and criticised but<br />
it remains a prominent feature of the capital of Belgium. It’s<br />
a city full of architectural riches. The buildings in the Grand<br />
Place date from the late 17th century. The four boatlifts in<br />
the Canal du Centre were built in the late 19th and early 20th<br />
century. They are still in their original state and are the only<br />
hydraulic boatlifts still in operation. They represent a good<br />
example of the 19th century industrial landscape.<br />
RNTV 2003 Duration 30min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RNHSB <strong>VHS</strong> - RNHSB<br />
Price $132<br />
Netherlands<br />
Heritage Sites Of The World<br />
For nearly two centuries the windmills of<br />
Kinderdijk have pumped excess water out of<br />
the polder. Kinderdijk has all the elements<br />
of a hydraulic system to keep the land<br />
dry, including: dykes, pumping stations,<br />
reservoirs and of course the windmills. The Wouda pumping<br />
station near Lemmer went into operation in 1920 and is the<br />
biggest steam pumping station ever built in the Netherlands.<br />
The Defence Line of Amsterdam is a system of defence works<br />
constructed between 1880 and 1920, consisting of a ring of<br />
forts, dams, locks, dykes and ramparts around Amsterdam,<br />
which turned the waterways into a weapon.<br />
RNTV 2003 Duration 30min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RNHSN <strong>VHS</strong> - RNHSN<br />
Price $132<br />
France Heritage Sites Of The World<br />
We visit Mont-Saint-Michel and the bay surrounding it which<br />
are located on the northwest coast of France, on the border<br />
between Normandy and Brittany. The effect of tides and<br />
sandbars down the ages has given the area a remarkable<br />
appearance. The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans which<br />
were placed on the list of World Heritage Sites in 1982<br />
because of their exceptional cultural value. Claude Nicolas<br />
Ledoux, the master of symmetry, designed the complex as<br />
a kind of ideal city, one where living and working flowed<br />
seamlessly one into another.<br />
RNTV 2003 Duration 30min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RNHSF <strong>VHS</strong> - RNHSF<br />
Price $132<br />
Germany<br />
Heritage Sites Of The World<br />
This program is comprised of two 15 minutes segments.<br />
Firstly we visit The Bauhaus school which was formed<br />
in Weimar in 1919 and later moved to Dessau where Its<br />
revolutionary principles were vital to the development of<br />
modern architecture in the 20th century. In part two, we visit<br />
Potsdam which is situated in the middle of a ring of parks and<br />
palaces built between 1730 and 1916. The ring extends as<br />
far as Berlin-Zehlendorf, with the parks and palaces on the<br />
bank of the Havel and Lake Glienicke.<br />
RNTV 2003 Duration 30min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RNHSG <strong>VHS</strong> - RNHSG<br />
Price $132<br />
Portugal Heritage Sites Of The World<br />
In this two-part program we first visit the cultural landscape<br />
of Sintra which lies in the splendid coastal landscape of<br />
western Portugal just north of Lisbon. Numerous kings and<br />
other aristocrats built their summer retreats in this miniature<br />
paradise. In the 19th century Sintra became the first centre<br />
of European Romantic architecture.<br />
RNTV 2003 Duration 30min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RNHSP <strong>VHS</strong> - RNHSP<br />
Price $132<br />
Spain Heritage Sites Of The World<br />
In this program we visit Barcelona to explore the remarkable<br />
style of the buildings designed by Antoni Gaudi i Cornet at<br />
the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. They<br />
include Parc Guell, Casa Vincens, Palau Guell, Casa Mila and<br />
Casa Batlla. Then we visit Santiago de Compostela which is<br />
a renowned place of pilgrimage in northwest Spain, where an<br />
ancient legend claims the apostle James is buried.<br />
RNTV 2003 Duration 30min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RNHSS <strong>VHS</strong> - RNHSS<br />
Price $132<br />
United Kingdom<br />
Heritage Sites Of The World<br />
See Stonehenge and Avebury where the county of Wiltshire<br />
contains the most famous stone circles in the world. Then<br />
we visit the City of Bath, were the Romans discovered<br />
pleasant thermal springs in the county of Wiltshire and built<br />
a settlement there, known as Aqua Sulis.<br />
RNTV 2003 Duration 30min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RNHSUK <strong>VHS</strong> - RNHSUK<br />
Price $132<br />
Venice And Its Lagoon Italy<br />
Venice is unique in the world: it is an architectural tour-deforce<br />
built on 118 islands in a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea.<br />
Old documents show that the city was founded as long ago<br />
as 421.<br />
RNTV 2003 Duration 30min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RNHSI <strong>VHS</strong> - RNHSI<br />
Price $132<br />
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EMPIRES ISLAM<br />
EMPIRE OF FAITH<br />
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The Messenger<br />
This program introduces the dramatic story of the rise of Islam<br />
with the extraordinary life of the Prophet Muhammad and his<br />
simple but revolutionary message. This episode covers the<br />
revelation and early writing of the Koran, the creation of the<br />
first Mosque, the persecution suffered by the first Muslims<br />
and the major battles fought by Muhammad and his followers<br />
to establish the new religion.<br />
SBS Television 2002<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMI1 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMI1<br />
Price $49.95<br />
The Awakening<br />
This program examines the flowering of Islam into one of<br />
the great civilisations in history. Arabic becomes a language<br />
of learning, and achievements in art, architecture, science,<br />
and medicine flourish. This episode also tells the story of<br />
the Crusades and describes the recapture of Jerusalem by<br />
Saladin the Great.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMI2 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMI2<br />
Price $49.95<br />
The Ottomans<br />
This program reveals the dramatic transformation of<br />
Islam resulting from the Mongol invasion. The Ottomans<br />
transform the Islamic world, creating a new empire that<br />
expands westward into Christian territories. Suleyman the<br />
Magnificent shapes the Ottomans into a military powerhouse<br />
and an empire of extreme wealth and sophistication, which<br />
threatens the great power centres of Europe.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMI3 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMI3<br />
Price $49.95<br />
Empires Sea Kingdoms Series<br />
Presented by Alistair Moffat. These are the<br />
lands of the Celtic peoples and the sea is<br />
the unbroken link that binds the Hebrides to<br />
the west of Wales, Ireland and Cornwall. The<br />
history of the Celtic peoples has been largely<br />
forgotten or subsumed.<br />
Titles include:<br />
Music Of The Thing As It Happened<br />
The Islands Of The Evening<br />
The Mighty Language Of The Gael<br />
Breaking Down The Ghost Fences<br />
Until The Break Of Day<br />
The Sons Of Death<br />
Dancing To The Music Of Time<br />
Eagles, Bards And Druids<br />
Swordland<br />
Ardtornish No More<br />
SBS Television 2005 Duration 10x24min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBSBW <strong>VHS</strong> - SBSBW<br />
Price $49.95<br />
Empires Martin Luther<br />
Martin Luther’s attack on the all-powerful Catholic Church<br />
was a knife to the heart of an empire that had endured<br />
for over a thousand years. But Luther would do more than<br />
revolutionise the Church, he offered the Christian world a new<br />
vision of man’s relationship with God and, in turn, redefined<br />
man’s relationship with authority in general. ‘Empires Martin<br />
Luther’ is the dramatic story of the collapse of the medieval<br />
world and the birth of the modern age.<br />
SBS Television 2002 Duration 2x60min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMML <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMML<br />
Price $49.95<br />
Empires Queen Victoria<br />
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At the time of Queen Victoria’s birth in 1819,<br />
England was an agrarian society. Within a<br />
few short decades, this small island nation<br />
would be transformed into an industrial<br />
superpower, with an empire spanning the<br />
globe. Queen Victoria’s empire is both the<br />
story of this remarkable time, and an engaging portrait of<br />
a Queen who ruled over one fifth of the world population. It<br />
is the story of the influential figureheads that would shape<br />
a distinctively British imperialism. Episode titles: Engines<br />
of Change, Passage to India, The Moral Crusade and The<br />
Scramble for Africa.<br />
SBS Television 2002 Duration 2x120min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMQV1 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMQV1<br />
Price $49.95<br />
Empires Kingdom Of David<br />
Nearly 3000 years ago, a tiny group of tribes in the land of<br />
Canaan gave birth to a nation and a religion - a religion that<br />
would dare to redefine humanity’s relationship with God.<br />
‘Empires Kingdom of David’ tells the epic story of the Israelites<br />
and the creation of the world’s first and most profoundly<br />
influential, monotheistic religion. The stories of the patriarch<br />
Abraham, the liberator Moses, and the poet-king David all<br />
come to life in the dramatic tale of loss and triumph.<br />
SBS Television 2002 Duration 240min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMKD <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMKD<br />
Price $49.95<br />
Empires Egypt<br />
‘Empires Egypt’ presents the most<br />
extraordinary period in Egyptian history<br />
from 1560 to 1080 BC, when the Egyptian<br />
Empire reached its zenith. In 1560 BC, when<br />
Rome was still a marsh, Egypt was already<br />
1,000 years old. The New Kingdom would be<br />
an empire forged by conquest, maintained<br />
by intimidation and diplomacy. ‘Empires Egypt’ reveals<br />
with startling clarity the hopes and dreams of the Pharaohs<br />
and ordinary citizens who created the first great empire in<br />
history.<br />
SBS Television 2002 Duration 165min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEME <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEME<br />
Price $49.95
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Through re-creations<br />
paintings, portraits<br />
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of battles,<br />
and architectural<br />
monuments, this series takes the viewer<br />
throughout Europe, to Egypt and to the island of<br />
Elba which Napoleon ruled like a little empire,<br />
to Waterloo, the site of his crushing defeat.<br />
Produced by SBS Television 2002. 6SBEMN<br />
To Destiny<br />
This program recounts the story of Napoleon’s extraordinary<br />
rise from the obscurity of his Corsican childhood to the<br />
victories in Italy that made him a hero to the French people<br />
and convinced him that he was destined for greatness. It<br />
also tells of his love for Josephine Beauharnais, a woman of<br />
extravagant habits and tastes, who did not at first return his<br />
passionate affection.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMN1 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMN1<br />
Price $39.95<br />
Mastering Luck<br />
This program charts Napoleon’s ascent to absolute power,<br />
from victorious General to first consul to Emperor of France.<br />
It describes his extraordinary achievements - the Napoleonic<br />
code and the bank of France, to bridges, roads and canals<br />
- as well as the tyrannical nature of his rule and the violent<br />
opposition of Europe.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMN2 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMN2<br />
Price $39.95<br />
The Summit Greatness<br />
This program shows Napoleon conquering most of Europe in<br />
a series of brilliant triumphs, including his legendary victory<br />
at the Battle of Austerlitz. To sustain his rule he continually<br />
waged war. But he overreaches himself with his invasion of<br />
Spain.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMN3 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMN3<br />
Price $39.95<br />
The End<br />
This program describes Napoleon’s downfall, including the<br />
invasion and subsequent retreat from Russia, and his final<br />
battles, in which all of Europe is arrayed against him. Exiled<br />
to Elba, he returns to France after just ten months, only to be<br />
defeated for the last time at Waterloo. Napoleon spent his<br />
final days exiled on an island far out in the South Atlantic,<br />
where he wrote his memoirs and reinvented his legend.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMN4 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMN4<br />
Price $39.95<br />
Empires Rome<br />
Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the<br />
first century, the world was ruled by Rome.<br />
The Roman Empire struggled with problems<br />
which are surprisingly familiar: violent coups,<br />
assassinations, overarching ambition, civil<br />
war, clashes between the classes as well as<br />
the sexes, and questions of personal freedom<br />
versus government control. This program is presented by<br />
Sigourney Weaver.<br />
SBS Television 2002 Duration 4x60min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMR <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMR<br />
Price $49.95<br />
Empire Of The Mongols<br />
This two-part program narrates the rise and fall of the<br />
Mongolian Empire. Against the backdrop of the breathtaking<br />
landscapes of Mongolia, the documentary reconstructs life<br />
at the court of Genghis Khan and illustrates the Mongolian<br />
style of warfare in re-enactments. The documentary shows a<br />
nomadic people that has kept its knowledge and skills alive<br />
and maintained its originality.<br />
SBS Teleivion 2005 Duration 2x 52min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEOM <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEOM<br />
Price $49.95<br />
Empires: The Medici -<br />
Godfathers of the Renaissance<br />
From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence,<br />
the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways.<br />
Using charm, patronage, skill, duplicity and ruthlessness,<br />
they would amass unparalleled wealth and unprecedented<br />
power. They would also ignite the most important cultural<br />
and artistic revolution in Western history - the European<br />
Renaissance. But the forces of change the Medici helped<br />
unleash would one day topple their ordered world. An epic<br />
drama played out in the courts, cathedrals and palaces of<br />
Europe, this series is both the tale of one family’s powerful<br />
ambition and of Europe’s tortured struggle to emerge from the<br />
ravages of the dark ages.<br />
SBS Television 2002 Duration 165min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMM <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMM<br />
Price $49.95<br />
Empires Peter And Paul<br />
And The Christian Revolution<br />
Combining the words of Paul and other ancient writers with<br />
contemporary scholars, modern archaeology and dramatic<br />
re-enactments filmed in Europe and the Middle East,<br />
this program explores how two men were able to weather<br />
crippling disagreements and political persecution to lead one<br />
of history’s most astonishing religious movements.<br />
SBS Television 2002 Duration 2x60min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMPP <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMPP<br />
Price $49.95<br />
Empires Japan:<br />
Memoirs Of A Secret Empire<br />
Commanding shoguns and samurai warriors, exotic geisha<br />
and exquisite artisans - all were part of the Japanese<br />
“renaissance” - when Japan went from chaos and violence<br />
to a land of ritual refinement and peace. This is the story of<br />
a mysterious empire, its relationship with the West, and the<br />
forging of a nation that would emerge as one of the most<br />
important countries in the world. Episode titles: The Way of<br />
the Samurai, The Will of the Shogun and The Return of the<br />
Barbarians.<br />
SBS Television 2002 Duration 165min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMJ <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMJ<br />
Price $49.95<br />
Empires The Greeks<br />
‘Empires The Greeks’ recounts the rise, glory, demise and<br />
legacy of the empire that marked the dawn of Western<br />
Civilisation. In the fourth and fifth centuries B.C., the Greeks<br />
built an empire that stretched across the Mediterranean from<br />
Asia to Spain. They laid the foundation of modern science,<br />
politics, warfare and philosophy, and produced some of the<br />
most breathtaking art and architecture the world has ever<br />
seen. It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of<br />
imagination.<br />
SBS Television 2002 Duration 165min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBEMG <strong>VHS</strong> - SBEMG<br />
Price $49.95<br />
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THE RED CHAPTERS<br />
This series traces the rise and fall of communism<br />
in the 20th century, by focusing on key events<br />
which took place on a single day, and yet each<br />
set off a chain reaction or crystallised a trend that<br />
changed the world. This series explores the global<br />
struggle between communism and its enemies.<br />
SBS Australia 1999. SBRC<br />
Hunt For True October<br />
This program details the events which<br />
occurred on the night before the 1917<br />
October Revolution, when Lenin set out in<br />
disguise for the Smolny Institute to harangue<br />
his reluctant comrades to seize power. An<br />
officer mistook him and let him proceed. We<br />
can see how history would have changed<br />
had he been arrested.<br />
Duration 40min <strong>VHS</strong> - SBRC1<br />
Price $121<br />
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A Fatal Stroke<br />
This program focuses on the events surrounding the illness<br />
and death of Lenin; the twist of fate which robbed him of his<br />
speech and awarded Stalin with an opportunity to ruthlessly<br />
manoeuvre his way into power.<br />
Duration 30min <strong>VHS</strong> - SBRC2<br />
Price $121<br />
The Murder Of Sergei Kirov<br />
Leningrad Party Secretary Kirov was assassinated in 1934.<br />
Stalin manipulated events to claim that his death proved that<br />
there was a plot to bring down the party, despite evidence<br />
that the murder was a crime of passion. Kirov’s death was<br />
the first link to thousands of assassinations.<br />
Duration 30min <strong>VHS</strong> - SBRC3<br />
Price $121<br />
The Heros Of Dadu<br />
This program recounts the story of the single most critical<br />
incident of the Long March, when 90,000 Communists,<br />
fleeing their Kuomintang enemy, crossed the Dadu River in<br />
1935.<br />
Duration 30min <strong>VHS</strong> - SBRC4<br />
Price $121<br />
The Plays The Thing<br />
The murderous Cultural Revolution was triggered by an<br />
argument over Wu Han’s play ‘The Dismissal of Hai from<br />
Office’. Mao, believing it to be a mocking parody of his own<br />
political actions found it deeply offensive. Egged on, he<br />
launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966.<br />
Duration 30min <strong>VHS</strong> - SBRC5<br />
Price $121<br />
A Rebel With A Cause<br />
This is the epic story of Che Guevara’s life, his 1967 execution<br />
in Bolivia and the extraordinary worldwide public reaction<br />
which shaped the modern world.<br />
Duration 27min <strong>VHS</strong> - SBRC6<br />
Price $121<br />
Full Series<br />
Price $594<br />
BioTerror<br />
This program probes the dark past and<br />
horrifying prospects of bioterrorism as a<br />
new form of warfare. It highlights the secret<br />
biological revolution that was pioneered by<br />
the U.S., honed to perfection by the Soviet<br />
Union, and then adopted by Iraq and terrorist<br />
cells around the world. It discusses the very<br />
latest on germ warfare with virtually every major authority on<br />
bioterrorism, including veterans of the U.S.; the Soviet program<br />
that perfected anthrax, smallpox and other pathogens; and<br />
the U.N. effort to track down Iraq and Saddam Hussein’s<br />
biological weapons in the wake of the Gulf War.<br />
SBS Television 2002, A PBS Production Duration 90min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBBIO <strong>VHS</strong> - SBBIO<br />
Price $132<br />
NEW<br />
Road to Tokyo<br />
2006<br />
By late 1944, the worst of World War II appears to be over,<br />
but the conflict in the Pacific is about to hot up and it will<br />
be a long road to Tokyo for the Allies. Combining interviews<br />
and vivid archival footage, this is an eyewitness account<br />
of an often forgotten episode in history, providing a social<br />
context as well as a military overview of the titanic struggle to<br />
defeat Japan. For Australia, it is signposted with some of the<br />
bloodiest campaigns and most appalling events of the war -<br />
and the memory of 8031 POWs who would never come home.<br />
“Excellent historical documentary...Road to Tokyo is a prime<br />
example of wartime historical documentary at its best.” Jim<br />
Schembri, The Age, 11/8/2005<br />
A Film Australia National Interest Program with the assistance of the<br />
Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2005 Duration 56min PG<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6FARTT <strong>VHS</strong> - FARTT<br />
Price $105<br />
Japan In Ruins - Tokyo, The Day<br />
The War Ended Price Of Peace<br />
NEW<br />
2006<br />
It is the day after the war. Nine million Japanese are homeless.<br />
Three million have been killed in the war and 1.3 million<br />
of these were civilians who died in the massive American<br />
bombing campaign of which the atomic bombing was only a<br />
part. It is only recently that the Japanese themselves have<br />
begun to show a growing desire to know and understand this<br />
pre-war to post-war period: the invasion of China in 1931, the<br />
Pacific War from 1942, the conditions of surrender in 1945,<br />
followed by the forced reconstruction at the price of memory<br />
and denial and under the authority of the victorious Americans.<br />
The film is structured around the procedure established by the<br />
Americans for this surrender ceremony in the Bay of Tokyo.<br />
SBS Television 2005 Duration 2x50min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBJR <strong>VHS</strong> - SBJR<br />
Price $198<br />
Choosing Exile -<br />
In The Footprints Of A Stranger<br />
This is a story of exile and displacement, of<br />
a young family’s first hand personal quest for<br />
safety and a place to set down permanent<br />
roots. We follow the journey of Marc<br />
Radomsky, a filmmaker, Vivienne, his wife<br />
and their two children, Shawn and Daniel as<br />
they leave established careers, family and friends in South<br />
Africa to emigrate to Australia, in the face of extreme family<br />
pressure to join Vivienne’s brothers in America.<br />
ABC Television 2004 Duration 55min FIRM SALE ONLY<br />
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Price $110
GREAT BATTLES OF<br />
THE GREAT WAR<br />
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present-day landscape to explain the strategy<br />
and progress of the battles, what happened<br />
and where with the use of superimposed maps,<br />
diagrams<br />
6SBGB<br />
and testimonies. SBS Television<br />
Somme - Here Comes<br />
Kitchener’s Army<br />
On the 1st July 1916 hundreds of thousands<br />
of inexperienced British volunteers,<br />
Kitchener’s Army, advanced across the mud<br />
of no-man’s land. By the end of the first<br />
day 40,000 men were maimed and 20,000<br />
killed in the single largest disaster in British<br />
military history. By November 1916, the gains were minimal,<br />
the slaughter almost incomprehensible.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBGB1 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBGB1<br />
Price $132<br />
Gallipoli - The Last Crusade<br />
In the nine-month carnage of Gallipoli the<br />
Allies lost 50,000 killed and gained a tiny<br />
foothold which they then abandoned when<br />
the 100,000 survivors were evacuated<br />
nine months later. The campaign started<br />
in Spring 1915 as a combined land and sea<br />
operation, planned by Winston Churchill.<br />
The plan foresaw the Royal Navy knocking out the Turkish<br />
shore batteries and British, Australian and New Zealand<br />
troops landing on the Gallipoli peninsula in what was then<br />
the largest ever amphibious assault.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBGB2 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBGB2<br />
Price $132<br />
Ypres - The Salient<br />
Straddling the French-Belgian border, this<br />
flat, wet and muddy landscape was the<br />
scene of three great battles between 1914<br />
and 1917. It culminated in a blood-letting<br />
that matched the Somme in desperation and<br />
losses. While the landscape of the Somme<br />
makes it easy to recognise features that<br />
would have been familiar to the troops, it’s not hard to see<br />
why even the men bogged down in fighting around Ypres and<br />
throughout Flanders were often literally lost in the mud and<br />
confusion.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBGB3 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBGB3<br />
Price $132<br />
Full Series<br />
Price $297<br />
21st CENTURY<br />
OUTBREAK<br />
21st Century Outbreak’ combines three gripping<br />
tales of detection, cutting-edge science and<br />
state-of-the-art computer graphics to chart the<br />
latest chapter in humanity’s war against its oldest<br />
enemy - infectious disease. Each episode focuses<br />
on a different way in which microbes are on the<br />
rise. Through these tales, the growing worldwide<br />
threat of infectious diseases is revealed. Atlantis<br />
Alliance 2004. 6GN21C<br />
Alien Invaders<br />
Wherever humans go, they take their<br />
diseases with them. Today 1.5 billion people<br />
travel by air every year. Deadly diseases<br />
can reach the other side of the world in a<br />
matter of hours, and diseases we thought<br />
we’d seen the back of are coming back<br />
to haunt us in new, more deadly forms.<br />
‘Alien Invaders’ reveals how four different microbes have<br />
succeeded in invading new territories.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6GN21C01 <strong>VHS</strong> - GN21C01<br />
Price $132<br />
New Killers<br />
Microbes have existed on planet Earth for<br />
nearly 4 billion years. Their ability to adapt<br />
and evolve to a changing world makes them<br />
the ultimate survivors but it also leads to<br />
brand new diseases. ‘New Killers’ focuses<br />
on the deadly germs that are new to science<br />
and reveals how older microbes have<br />
mutated into new, more dangerous forms.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6GN21C02 <strong>VHS</strong> - GN21C02<br />
Price $132<br />
Bioterror<br />
Advances in medical science have helped<br />
us to fight the terrifying threat of infectious<br />
disease. But while some scientists are trying<br />
to fight infectious disease, others are busy<br />
cultivating it to a far more sinister end. The<br />
very microbes we have spent decades trying<br />
to eradicate are now being manipulated to<br />
destroy us. The biological revolution has given the world a<br />
new kind of threat - the biological weapon.<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6GN21C03 <strong>VHS</strong> - GN21C03<br />
Price $132<br />
Full Series<br />
Price $330<br />
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Germany The Reluctant Nation<br />
This program examines German unification five years after<br />
the wall came down. It looks at how the guilt Germans feel<br />
about their past is effecting the way forward, their role as<br />
a military force, relations between East and West and the<br />
question of a European Union.<br />
SBS Television Duration 52min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBGRN<br />
Price $132<br />
Romanov<br />
This film contains superb archival footage of the last Tsar<br />
Nicholas II, including his personal photographic collection of<br />
family and friends. ‘Romanov’ is an entertaining and poignant<br />
account of one of the world’s most romantic and wealthiest<br />
dynasties.<br />
SBS Television 2003 Duration 53min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBRO<br />
Price $132<br />
Tiananmen Square In Beijing<br />
From the balcony overlooking what is now<br />
Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Mao Zedong<br />
proclaimed the People’s Republic of China<br />
on October 1st 1949. Mao’s gigantic portrait<br />
still gazes upon the ever-changing square.<br />
This program has a wealth of archival<br />
footage augmented strongly by writer Hong<br />
Ying’s personal memories of this historic place telling of the<br />
history of this famous square.<br />
RNTV 2003 Duration 42min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RNTTS <strong>VHS</strong> - RNTTS<br />
Price $132<br />
BEST<br />
The French Revolution<br />
SELLER<br />
This program is a good overview of the issues, causes and<br />
turbulent events of the French Revolution. Part one traces the<br />
autocratic national states in Europe, the structure of French<br />
Society and key events of the Revolution. Part two details<br />
increasingly violent stages, the Directory period, Napoleon<br />
and major effects.<br />
Clearvue Duration 17min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWCFR <strong>VHS</strong> - RWCFR<br />
Price $132<br />
World War 1 - The War In Europe<br />
This program provides a clear and concise narrative discussion<br />
of the conflict. Historically accurate, full-colour maps provide<br />
geographical context for the program. Topics include: the<br />
roots of the war; European military alliances that ignited<br />
the war; industrial age technological advances such as the<br />
U-boat, machine guns, air combat, and chemical weapons;<br />
United States involvement including the participation of<br />
women and African Americans; and U.S. economic policies<br />
and public support for the war effort.<br />
AGC/United Learning 2002 Study Notes Duration 30min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - RWULWW<br />
Price $137.5<br />
Child Soldiers<br />
This documentary focuses on the plight of children recruited<br />
to fight in civil wars and armed conflicts around the world,<br />
and the desperate struggle by some in the face of government<br />
policies to rescue and rehabilitate those who learned to be<br />
professional killers before they became teenagers. View a<br />
series of encounters with children who have been through<br />
hell as soldiers in Uganda, Sudan, Burma and Columbia.<br />
ABC Television 2004 Duration 56min FIRM SALE ONLY<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - ABCCHS<br />
Price $110<br />
Imperialism<br />
This program is an excellent way to define and<br />
analyse imperialism, as it examines three<br />
case studies: the Spanish in Latin America;<br />
the British in India; and the multinational<br />
division of Africa. Topics addressed are<br />
the motives, methods of establishment and<br />
operation, and effects of imperialism.<br />
Duration 44min <strong>VHS</strong> - RWCIMP<br />
Price $132<br />
Cuban Missile Crisis<br />
In 1962, the Soviet Union amassed an<br />
arsenal of nuclear missiles in Cuba, which<br />
lies some 70 miles off the coast of Florida.<br />
Four Russian submarines discovered in the<br />
Caribbean provoked a stand-off that brought<br />
the world perilously close to nuclear war. In<br />
this program you will hear exclusive interviews with former<br />
Soviet naval commanders and former White House aides and<br />
view archival footage of unfolding events.<br />
Discovery School Channel 2003 Duration 52min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISCMC <strong>VHS</strong> - DISCMC<br />
Price $137.5<br />
The Roots Of Conflict<br />
In 1947, the United Nations proposed a plan<br />
to partition Palestine and create a homeland<br />
for Jewish people. More than 50 years later,<br />
conflict between Jews and Palestinians is<br />
still unresolved - and it is often marked by<br />
violence. Learn the history of the Israeli-<br />
Palestinian conflict, and the historical claims<br />
to the land that both sides have made.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2003 Duration 45min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISIP1 <strong>VHS</strong> - DISIP1<br />
Price $137.5<br />
Israel And Palestine<br />
Fight For Peace<br />
Can there be peace in the Middle East? The<br />
Oslo Peace Accords in 1993 brought a glimmer<br />
of hope to ending a decades old dispute.<br />
Learn the obstacles that have prevented<br />
Israel and Palestine from compromising,<br />
including border disputes, refugees, settlers,<br />
terrorism and years of distrust and bloodshed.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2003 Duration 45min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISIP2 <strong>VHS</strong> - DISIP2<br />
Price $137.5<br />
BEST<br />
SELLER<br />
Historical Heroes<br />
This thoughtful program encourages<br />
students to weigh the heroic value of such<br />
attributes as rebelliousness, endurance<br />
and risk taking. Great Books: The Right<br />
Stuff: explores the experiences of American<br />
astronauts through Tom Wolfe’s book. The<br />
Original Gangs of New York: addresses how<br />
19th century gangs in New York helped forge the city’s politics<br />
and identity. Australia’s Criminal Past: tells the story of<br />
convicts who became Australia’s first European settlers after<br />
being forcibly transported there by Great Britain. Great Books:<br />
Les Miserable: analyses life in post-Revolutionary France as<br />
described in Victor Hugo’s classic novel.<br />
Discovery Channel School Duration 54min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISHH <strong>VHS</strong> - DISHH<br />
Price $137.5
VOICES FROM THE<br />
HOLOCAUST<br />
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Witness: ‘Voices from the Holocaust’ is a<br />
prize-winning documentary, in which<br />
testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses,<br />
some recorded as early as 1979, archival footage,<br />
and personal photographs and documents reveal<br />
the Nazi era through the memories of those<br />
who were there. A Hitler Youth, a Jesuit priest,<br />
resistance fighters, concentration camp survivors,<br />
an American POW, and a liberator, present a<br />
vivid image of the Holocaust in their own words.<br />
Since many of the witnesses were in their teens<br />
or younger during the war years, students can<br />
understand and identify with their experiences on<br />
a more personal level. The accompanying book of<br />
the same title provides resource material and the<br />
opportunity for students to learn more about the<br />
survivors in the documentary.<br />
This three-part series provides history that<br />
students can understand on their own level<br />
and from which they can draw lessons for current<br />
events and their own lives. The teachers who<br />
wrote the curriculum piloted this documentary<br />
with their own students. Produced by AGC/United<br />
Learning, Study Notes. RWULVH<br />
Part 1<br />
Part I includes the topics: A Way of Life; and the Outbreak<br />
of War Ghettos.<br />
Duration 24min <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULVH1<br />
Price $132<br />
Part 2<br />
Part II includes the topics: Escape, Hiding and Resistance<br />
Deportation and Arrival the Camps.<br />
Duration 32min <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULVH2<br />
Price $132<br />
Part 3<br />
Part III includes the topic: Death March Liberation<br />
Aftermath.<br />
Duration 26min <strong>VHS</strong> - RWULVH3<br />
Price $132<br />
Full Series<br />
Price $264<br />
Camp Memories<br />
One Survivor Remembers<br />
This program tells the story of Gerda Weissman, a survivor of<br />
the Holocaust. Germans invaded her town of Bielsko, Poland<br />
in August 1939. She talks about her life in slave labour camps<br />
along the Polish-German border and on a death march at the<br />
end of the war.<br />
Duration 39min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - ITCM<br />
Price $132<br />
The Great Depression - Part 1<br />
Post war boom and bust. The Great Depression had its roots<br />
in the First World War. We examine the efforts of various<br />
countries, including the USA, Canada, Australia, and several<br />
in Europe, to make the transition from war economies to<br />
more normal market conditions. It covers the post-war boom<br />
in manufacturing and wheat production in the USA and<br />
Canada; the prosperous “Roaring Twenties”; the effects of<br />
severe drought conditions in North America; the economic,<br />
agricultural, and societal conditions that led to the “Crash of<br />
‘29”. The program uses archival film and images to clearly<br />
depict the struggle of ordinary people to survive. It concludes<br />
with the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the U.S. &<br />
his goal of returning confidence to the American people.<br />
Classroom Video 2004 Study Notes Duration 31min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 88CVGD1 <strong>VHS</strong> - CVGD1<br />
Price $99<br />
The Great Depression - Part 2<br />
The global hardships of the 30s, economic solutions, the<br />
road to war. This second program concludes the Great<br />
Depression story. It begins with the “Gold Standard”, its<br />
influence on world trade, and explains the circular flow of<br />
a healthy economy. FDR’s “New Deal” in the USA is covered<br />
extensively, as is the establishment of work camps in Canada<br />
and the ensuing “On-to-Ottawa Trek”. As countries all over<br />
the world tried to protect their domestic markets, they placed<br />
high tariffs on imported goods; the video shows that this had<br />
the effect of worsening the depression by bringing stagnation<br />
to world trade. The effect of the Peace Treaty of Versailles<br />
on Germany is explained in the story of Germany’s build-up<br />
to the Second World War. The video concludes with Japan’s<br />
military expansion and the USA’s entry into the war.<br />
Classroom Video 2004 Study Notes Duration 28min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 88CVGD2 <strong>VHS</strong> - CVGD2<br />
Price $99<br />
The Short Life Of Anne Frank<br />
This program tells the story of Anne Frank<br />
with quotations from her diary, unique<br />
photographs from the Frank Family albums<br />
and historical film extracts. It also includes<br />
the only film footage of Anne Frank. This<br />
program not only tells the story of Anne<br />
Frank, her diary, her family and the secret<br />
annex, but also tells of the Second World War and the<br />
persecution of the Jews. This is an excellent tool in teaching<br />
about the Holocaust.<br />
RNTV 2002 Duration 25min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - RNLSA <strong>VHS</strong> - RNLSA<br />
Price $132<br />
Just A Diary<br />
This program looks at the historical circumstances which<br />
forced Anne Frank and her family into hiding. It contains<br />
excerpts from her diary and footage from the period. It also<br />
shows scenes from a play based on Anne Frank’s life.<br />
Anne Frank Centre Duration 25min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - NIJD<br />
Price $132<br />
Dear Kitty<br />
Anne Frank, a German Jew, whose family fled to Amsterdam<br />
because of Nazi persecution of the Jews, wrote a diary<br />
which has become the best known book about the war. The<br />
diary details the last two years of her life, spent in hiding<br />
in Amsterdam following the German invasion of Holland in<br />
1940.<br />
Anne Frank Centre<br />
Duration 25min <strong>VHS</strong> - NIDK<br />
Price $132<br />
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Heading For War 1936 - 1939<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBUW1<br />
Price $88<br />
Far From The Battlefield 1939 - 1942<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBUW2<br />
Price $88<br />
Eastern Front 1940 - 1943<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBUW3<br />
Price $88<br />
Camera In The Scout Car 1941 - 1944<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBUW4<br />
Price $88<br />
Boogie Woogie Victory 1943 - 1945<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBUW5<br />
Price $88<br />
The Mascot<br />
For most of his life, Alex Kurzem harboured a secret. As a<br />
five-year old Russian orphan in World War Two, he had been<br />
found by Latvian soldiers, made their mascot and given a<br />
new name and birth date. But Alex was actually a Jew who<br />
was being kept alive by those who were exterminating his<br />
people. With his real identity hidden, he became a poster boy<br />
for the Nazi ideal and was taken into a Latvian family, who<br />
later migrated to Australia. This is the story of Alex’s search<br />
for his true history.<br />
Film Australia Duration 55min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - FAMASCOT<br />
Price $105<br />
Afghanistan -<br />
12 Years Of Violence<br />
This program charts the history of<br />
Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion to<br />
civil war between ethnic tribes to the rise of<br />
the Taliban. This war-torn country was once<br />
home to many sophisticated, educated, and<br />
artistic people. By the late 1990s, it became an international<br />
centre for smuggling drugs and precious stones and the<br />
headquarters of Osama bin Laden.<br />
Discovery Channel School 2002 Study Notes Duration 26min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6DISAFG <strong>VHS</strong> - DISAFG<br />
Price $137.5<br />
The Power Of Gold<br />
Gold has had an enormous influence on art, religion and<br />
myth, the development of money and economic progress<br />
through almost all the civilisations in history. Filmed on five<br />
continents, ‘The Power Of Gold’ is based on the best-selling<br />
book of the same name by Peter L. Bernstein. It is an exciting<br />
and accessible history of substance that has fascinated<br />
people and nations from the beginning of time. Segments<br />
include Ancient Egypt, Rome and Byzantium, Inca Empire<br />
and Europe and Australia, California and South Africa.<br />
SBS Television 2004 Duration 3 x 49min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBPOG <strong>VHS</strong> - SBPOG<br />
Price $29.95<br />
The Internationale<br />
Drawing on people’s stories of an<br />
emotionally charged radical song (the longtime<br />
anthem of socialism and communism)<br />
to celebrate the relationship between music<br />
and social change, and to evaluate the<br />
uncertain fate of once thriving movements<br />
of the left. It takes us on a lyrical journey<br />
from the Paris Commune to the collapse of<br />
Soviet Communism, from the slums of Kingston Jamaica to<br />
Tiananmen Square, in search of what might be the only song<br />
to change the world. With each rendering of The Internationale<br />
we learn what happens when the only truly universal dream<br />
of our century - the dream of a world without exploitation - is<br />
deferred.<br />
SBS Television Duration 30min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - 6SBINT <strong>VHS</strong> - SBINT<br />
Price $121<br />
The Last Poets<br />
The Last Poets were a group of black poets<br />
formed in the 1960’s through to the 1970s in<br />
Harlem, New York, whose work was based<br />
on strong, direct ideology and revolutionary<br />
ideals. The film traces their place in the late<br />
50’s and 60’s in the background of the Black<br />
Panthers and the Civil Rights movement. The Last Poets all<br />
testify lucidly to the ambitions and effects of their poetry<br />
within a time of growing strength, confidence ad optimism<br />
within the black communities in America.<br />
SBS Television Duration 60 min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - SBLPO<br />
Price $121<br />
Renaissance<br />
This program is divided into three parts:<br />
Europe before the Renaissance, Italy and the<br />
Renaissance and the Renaissance elsewhere<br />
in Europe. Each segment places key events<br />
in context as the viewer is taken to various<br />
buildings and landmarks. The program uses<br />
painting, sculpture, architecture, music and<br />
documentary material.<br />
Clearvue Duration 56min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - RWCR<br />
Price $137.5<br />
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Tulips The Light Of The East<br />
This is the story of the flower that has<br />
shaped human destinies and influenced the<br />
face of history. Greed, desire and anguish<br />
have all played their part in the development<br />
of the tulip, from its origin as a wild flower of<br />
the Asian steppes to its current status as a<br />
world phenomenon. The saga of the tulip is<br />
brought to life through a combination of contemporary film<br />
material, interviews with experts and carefully re-enacted<br />
historical scenes.<br />
RNTV 2003 Duration 52min<br />
<strong>VHS</strong> - RNTU<br />
Price $137.5
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CRIME OF CRIMES<br />
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This series analyses the social,<br />
political and historical conditions that make<br />
ethnic cleansing possible. Episode 1 begins with<br />
the persecution of the Jews throughout history.<br />
Episode 2 focuses on the colonisers, who turned<br />
land into property, clearing the indigenous<br />
people. Epidose 3 looks at Europe at the end<br />
of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th<br />
Centuries. Episode 4 looks at genocides in the<br />
former Republic of Yugoslavia and Rwanda. SBS<br />
Australia. 6SBCOCP<br />
Crime Of Crimes - Part 1<br />
Titles: Enemy / Land<br />
Rather than being a grimlitany of disaster,<br />
this series analyses the social, political<br />
and historical conditions that make ethnic<br />
cleansing possible. It begins with the<br />
persecution of the Jews throughout history<br />
it continues by looking at colonisers in North<br />
America, Australia and South Africa who justified brutal<br />
expansion in the name of ‘civilising’ the native peoples:<br />
then considers ethnic cleansing of political ends. The<br />
episode ‘Land’ focuses on the colonisers, who turned land<br />
into property, clearing the indigenous people, establishing<br />
Europeans as the new owners. This clear and settle policy<br />
was first tried out by the English in Ireland but was also used<br />
later in North America and Australia establishing Europeans<br />
as the new owners. *Rated M<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBCOCP1 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBCOCP1<br />
Price $198<br />
Crime Of Crimes - Part 2<br />
Titles: Nation / Vengeance<br />
The episode ‘Nation’ looks at Europe at the<br />
end of the 19th and the beginning of the<br />
20th Centuries when the great empires were<br />
crumbling and the peoples of Europe turned<br />
to nationhood to instil security and a sense<br />
of belonging. In Turkey, the reign of the tyrannical sultans<br />
was swept away, and replaced in 1908 by a group known as<br />
the Young Turks, a group of military men who no longer saw<br />
the empire as a priority. The episode ‘Vengeance’ looks at<br />
genocide’s in the former Republic of Yugoslavia and Rwanda.<br />
These campaigns of mass murder were conducted by people<br />
who felt that they were part of a group that had suffered in<br />
the past, and wanted to right the wrongs of history. In the<br />
history of genocide, the perpetrators have always needed<br />
a powerful and convincing story to enable them to kill and<br />
justify their actions. *Rated M<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBCOCP2 <strong>VHS</strong> - SBCOCP2<br />
Price $198<br />
Full Series<br />
Price $330<br />
Americas Forgotten Allies<br />
This documentary program tells the story<br />
of the Montagnard hill tribes of Vietnam’s<br />
central highlands - loyal allies to the<br />
American forces during the Vietnam conflict<br />
who are now fighting for their existence,<br />
their culture, and their land. During the<br />
Vietnam War thousands of Montagnard<br />
hill tribesmen were recruited by the CIA and Special Forces<br />
to fight the communists in exchange for US promises of<br />
support and protection. Tragically, those loyal US allies<br />
would be abandoned in 1975 to be brutally persecuted by the<br />
vengeful communists. It was in 1992 however, when the last<br />
resistance group of Montagnards, who were still fighting the<br />
Vietnam War, would surrender. Like ghosts they stepped out<br />
of the jungle - 17 years after America left Vietnam.<br />
SBS Television 2002 Duration 52min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6SBAFA <strong>VHS</strong> - SBAFA<br />
Price $132<br />
The Art Of War<br />
In The Art of War, Betty Churcher brings her<br />
unique perspective to a series on Australian<br />
art inspired or provoked by a century of<br />
conflict, from World War I to the “war on<br />
terror”. A personal exploration of art rather<br />
than a comprehensive history, it reveals how<br />
dramatically attitudes to war have changed<br />
NEW<br />
2006<br />
NEW<br />
2006<br />
and how radically the trauma of war has changed art itself.<br />
With images from official war artists, soldiers on the frontline<br />
or in POW camps, civilians in concentration camps and those<br />
on the homefront, it is a story of unknown artists and famous<br />
names such as George Lambert, Nora Heysen, Wendy Sharpe<br />
and Sidney Nolan.<br />
Titles include:<br />
Birth of a Legend<br />
The Human Tragedy<br />
Far from the Frontline<br />
Cold War<br />
Conflagration<br />
A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Early<br />
Works. Produced with the support of the Australian War Memorial<br />
and in association with SBS Independent 2005.<br />
Duration 4 x 26min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 88FAART<br />
Price $165<br />
Causes Of World War I<br />
Revised and expanded, this program explores the political,<br />
economic and social causes of World War I. Part One<br />
addresses the development of nationalism and major power<br />
goals; the second part depicts pre-war European prosperity<br />
and then focuses on imperialism and the tensions created.<br />
Duration 35min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWCWW1 <strong>VHS</strong> - RWCWW1<br />
Price $132<br />
Causes Of World War II<br />
This program explores how the events and consequences of<br />
World War I sowed the seeds for World War II. Part one focuses<br />
on the 1920 Treaty of Versailles, the Russian Revolution,<br />
Facism and National Socialism in Germany. Part two focuses<br />
on the 1930’s, Hitler, the effect of the depression, Spanish<br />
Civil War and Japan.<br />
Duration 47min<br />
<strong>DVD</strong> - 6RWCWW2 <strong>VHS</strong> - RWCWW2<br />
Price $132<br />
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