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Tudor Food
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Tudors and Stuarts | School Level: 9-11 |
| Sub-Topic: Tudors | Duration: 1'10" |
Content Description:
Clip showing wealthy Tudor kitchen including recipes and various forms of food. Also the work of the servants in preparing food.
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Tromso Sun
| Subject: science
| Language: English
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| Topic: Physical processes | School Level: 7-9 |
| Sub-Topic: Light and dark | Duration: 1' 54" |
Content Description:
This clip shows how Tromso, in the north of Norway has daytime periods of no sun in the winter. A sunshine meter is discussed and reasons given for its lack of use in winter
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Modern Coal Mining
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Modern Wales and Britain | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: Coal industry | Duration: 1'18" |
Content Description:
Clip shows shots underground in a modern coal mine (Tower Colliery). It includes miners on the conveyor belt, coal being transported on the belt and coal shearing/cutting by miners at the coalface.
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South Africa Post Apartheid
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: South Africa 1960-1994 | School Level: 14-16 |
| Sub-Topic: Nelson Mandela | Duration: 2'18" |
Content Description:
This clip looks at the history of South Africa after the election of Nelson Mandela in 1994 (after the collapse of apartheid) until the election of his successor, Oliver Mbeko in 1999.
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The Brain and the Hypothalamus
| Subject: biology
| Language: English
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| Topic: Humans as organisms | School Level: 14-16 |
| Sub-Topic: Homeostasis | Duration: 1' 35" |
Content Description:
A scientist is shown with a real human brain, which he then dissects showing various parts . He focuses on the hypothalamus, looking at its function as a regulator of water levels in the body.
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Snowdon Summit - Honey Pot Site
| Subject: geography
| Language: English
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| Topic: Tourism | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: Snowdonia | Duration: 1.27 |
Content Description:
Clip shows Snowdon's summit wilderness and discusses the effects of Snowdonia being a honeypot site. Problems such as radioactive soil following on from the Chernobyl explosion, soil erosion caused by tourism and acid rain are explored
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Montserrat Volcanic Eruption
| Subject: geography
| Language: English
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| Topic: Volcanoes | School Level: 14-16 |
| Sub-Topic: Montserrat | Duration: 1'28" |
Content Description:
In 1997 a large volcano erupted on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. This clip carries a news report on the disaster showing the volcanic dust, the capital Plymouth, evacuees in a refugee camp and aerial shots of the volcano erupting.
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Traditional Suri Life in Ethiopia
| Subject: geography
| Language: English
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| Topic: Ecosystems | School Level: 14-16 |
| Sub-Topic: Nomadic tribes | Duration: 1.47 |
Content Description:
Preparation of Suri tribe women in Ethiopia to become adults - most women have their bottom teeth removed and their bottom lips stretched to insert a clay lip plate. This is done to calculate their worth - the bigger the plate the higher the value.
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Muslim Policemen in Wales
| Subject: religiouseducation
| Language: English
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| Topic: Islam | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: Muslim faith | Duration: 01'17" |
Content Description:
A Muslim policeman from North Wales talks about how he combines his job with his faith. Clip shows him in his office with Qur'an behind him, shows him on his beat and at prayer in the mosque.
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Is Death the End?
| Subject: religiouseducation
| Language: English
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| Topic: Life after death | School Level: 14-16 |
| Sub-Topic: Does death give life meaning? | Duration: 1'22" |
Content Description:
Clip from 'Extras' exploring the meaning and purpose of life. Andy and Maggie on a Second World War film set discuss religion, belief in God, ghosts and spirits and their beliefs on what happens after death.
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What Makes Us Human?
| Subject: religiouseducation
| Language: English
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| Topic: Meaning and purpose of life | School Level: 14-16 |
| Sub-Topic: What makes us human? | Duration: 2'02" |
Content Description:
Clip from Dr Who where a cyberman is dying and reverts to near humanity just before dying. Raises questions as to what is essential for human life as well as questions on the basic ingredients of the human soul.
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What did the Celts Look Like?
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Celts | School Level: 9-11 |
| Sub-Topic: Everyday life | Duration: 1' 30" |
Content Description:
Clip looks at a Celtic warrior's body found in Cheshire, famously known as the Lindow Moss man. His manner of death is looked at - possibly human sacrifice ? His head is reconstructed so that modern viewers can see how our Celtic ancestors looked
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Don't Try To Take My Faith
| Subject: religiouseducation
| Language: English
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| Topic: Questioning faith | School Level: 14-16 |
| Sub-Topic: What are the benefits of faith? | Duration: 1'31 |
Content Description:
Eastenders' Dot Cotton and old friend Douglas ( ex vicar) discussing his loss of Christian faith. Douglas calls it a "broadening of faith'. Can use clip in conjunction with clip titled 'Don't Take my Faith' from the same programme
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Aberfan
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Modern Wales and Britain | School Level: 7-9 |
| Sub-Topic: Aberfan | Duration: 1' 39" |
Content Description:
A look back to the day of the disaster at Aberfan in 1966 when a coal tip slid down the mountain and buried a local primary school, killing 116 children and 28 adults.
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Tiger Bay
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Twentieth century world | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: Politics and economy | Duration: 2' 00" |
Content Description:
Clip showing the old Cardiff Docklands, as it existed in 1968, with its multicultural feel, just before the old Tiger Bay housing was demolished in the first refurbishment of Cardiff Bay
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Llangollen Eisteddfod and the German Choir
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Twentieth century world | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: War and conflict | Duration: 1'58 |
Content Description:
In 1949 a choir came from Germany to the Llangollen International Eisteddfod. Memories in 1986 from this first visit by a German choir since the end of the war give us an idea today of perceptions of the Germans at the time and in the preceding war.
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Memories of the First World War
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Twentieth century world | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: Everyday life | Duration: 2' 00 |
Content Description:
Two old, very articulate men in the Rhonda valley in the early 1960's remembering the first world war. Fascinating insight into the beliefs of an elder generation of valleys men with great archive of the Rhondda of the 1960s.
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Prisoners of War Escape
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Twentieth century world | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: Second world war | Duration: 2'02" |
Content Description:
In 1945, Britain's only major German prisoner escape took place from a PoW camp near Bridgend. All were recaptured. This clip takes some of these ex PoW's back to the site of their escape
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The Slate Industry
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Twentieth century world | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: Slate mining | Duration: 1' 55" |
Content Description:
Clip looking at the Welsh slate industry with black and white archive of quarrymen going underground and footage of a quarryman at work in one of the few quarries left in Blaenau Ffestiniog by the early 1980s.
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Battle of Hastings 1066
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Normans | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: William the Conqueror | Duration: 49" |
Content Description:
This clip is a reconstruction of the battle of Hastings in 1066 - a battle which lasted for 12 hours and was won by the Norman invaders. It was led by William the Conqueror after the Saxon King, Harold, was fatally wounded by an arrow in his eye.
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