Known for
5.5The story of the evolution of tropical rain forests, their recent and rapid destruction, and the intense efforts of scientists to understand them even as they disappear. This film gives viewers a better appreciation of the importance of tropical rain forests on a global scale.
Tropical Rainforest
1992
NRDocumentary from 1976 that explores the drought crisis of that year, going behind the scenes to discover its impact on farming, the landscape and industrial and domestic consumers.
The Great British Drought
1976
NRThe First Signs of Washoe is a 1974 documentary from the PBS series Nova that chronicles Project Washoe, an experiment raising a wild-born chimpanzee using American Sign Language. The film demonstrates how Washoe acquired spontaneous signing and conceptual combinations, challenging the traditional scientific consensus that language is uniquely human.
The First Signs of Washoe
1974
Scientists travel through Myanmar visiting elephants and their handlers, Oozies, who log forests sustainably. With unique access to logging camps and villages, the scientists find out how the Asian elephant can be saved from extinction.
Of Oozies and Elephants
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NRScientists now know where each continent was in relation to the Poles at any given time. These developments have come from discoveries in paleomagnetism, oceanography and seismology, and they are affecting every earth science from geochemistry to earthquake engineering.
The Drifting of the Continents
1970
Behind the camera
5.5The story of the evolution of tropical rain forests, their recent and rapid destruction, and the intense efforts of scientists to understand them even as they disappear. This film gives viewers a better appreciation of the importance of tropical rain forests on a global scale.
Tropical Rainforest
1992
NRDocumentary from 1976 that explores the drought crisis of that year, going behind the scenes to discover its impact on farming, the landscape and industrial and domestic consumers.
The Great British Drought
1976
NRThe First Signs of Washoe is a 1974 documentary from the PBS series Nova that chronicles Project Washoe, an experiment raising a wild-born chimpanzee using American Sign Language. The film demonstrates how Washoe acquired spontaneous signing and conceptual combinations, challenging the traditional scientific consensus that language is uniquely human.
The First Signs of Washoe
1974
NRThe First Signs of Washoe is a 1974 documentary from the PBS series Nova that chronicles Project Washoe, an experiment raising a wild-born chimpanzee using American Sign Language. The film demonstrates how Washoe acquired spontaneous signing and conceptual combinations, challenging the traditional scientific consensus that language is uniquely human.
The First Signs of Washoe
1974
Scientists travel through Myanmar visiting elephants and their handlers, Oozies, who log forests sustainably. With unique access to logging camps and villages, the scientists find out how the Asian elephant can be saved from extinction.
Of Oozies and Elephants
—
NRScientists now know where each continent was in relation to the Poles at any given time. These developments have come from discoveries in paleomagnetism, oceanography and seismology, and they are affecting every earth science from geochemistry to earthquake engineering.
The Drifting of the Continents
1970
NRScientists now know where each continent was in relation to the Poles at any given time. These developments have come from discoveries in paleomagnetism, oceanography and seismology, and they are affecting every earth science from geochemistry to earthquake engineering.
The Drifting of the Continents
1970
NRScientists now know where each continent was in relation to the Poles at any given time. These developments have come from discoveries in paleomagnetism, oceanography and seismology, and they are affecting every earth science from geochemistry to earthquake engineering.
The Drifting of the Continents
1970
