On the 11th of August at 11 minutes past 11am, almost total darkness fell across Southern England and an eerie silence descended as the population gazed skyward at what was the last total solar eclipse of this millennium. A total solar eclipse is a breathtaking event and this documentary programme conveys that awesome feeling by exploring how and why eclipses happen. A mixture of computer-generated views from outer space, footage of eclipses throughout the 20th century (some taken as early as 1927) and original footage taken of this year's total solar eclipse (shot in Cornwall) make this programme a celebration of eclipse mania.
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...
Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...
Demonstration of the rapid poisoning of a cat hung up in a cloth, strychnine as a trigger of the ton...
The movie shows the consequences of total and partial removal of the epithelial bodies in a cat
Two cats housed in a glass box, one of which had received a small amount of atropine in the prelimin...
Compulsory locomotion and continuous circular movement to the operated side without orientation in c...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Documentary on how the osprey catches its prey. The film shows the search for prey, the launch maneu...
Benjamin and Awad run Sudan's national film archive. The two men, who have worked together for more ...
Crossed by greed, two hundred and seventy-two people were buried by tailings from the Vale mining co...
The remarkable, forgotten story behind David Bowie’s biggest-ever hit record – and how an unlikely j...
Since second grade Matt and Ryan have shared the bond of speech impediments, weapons, and things tha...
Charles Santore, in an expansion of his discussion in “Oz: The American Fairyland” (1997) (V), tells...
Panorama of Nice from the deck of a ship.
An impression of the funeral parade for Victoria, Queen of England, filmed in London (via https://ca...
Elaborate floats and costumes parading the streets of Nice.