FAU Libraries Media Center - Videographies, Ecology

VH 2264 Academic & Career Options in the College of Science, F.A.U.
Summary: Recruitment video. 089 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, ECOLOGY, MATHEMATIC GEOLOGY

VH 7165 Alaska's Great Wilderness
Summary: Travel to Alaska's great wilderness and witness the amazing cycles in one of the last pristine places on our planet. Explore the vibrant territory beneath Mount McKinley, and soar above it. Watch the caribou roam, a mother grizzly and her cub and the flight of the majestic golden eagle. 054 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: GEOGRAPHY, ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT

VH 5692 Alaska's Grizzlies
Summary: Breathtaking adventure into the habitat of the grizzly bear of Alaska, illustrating how they survive and live their daily lives. Includes footage of cubs discovering their environment, a mother bear defending her cubs from attack, bears hunting and fishing for food, and a face to face encounter with an adult Kodiak brown bear. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, GEOGRAPHY, ECOLOGY

VH 5691 Alaska, Voices from the Ice
Summary: A nature film for tourists surveying the Alaskan countryside. 020 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, GEOGRAPHY, ECOLOGY

VH 2793 Arriving
Summary: Birth is the first dangerous step into a hazardous world. The vast majority of newborns are consumed by other creatures who are struggling to compete in the perpetual game of life. Egg-laying animal live-bearing, pregnant male body snatching wasps-the strategies are diverse, but the aim is simple: to launch progeny into the world with a good chance of progress on the road to becoming parents. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ECOLOGY Series: TRIALS OF LIFE, THE

VH 2810 Baking Desert The
Summary: Heat and drought, the demanding conditions that desert life has adapted to. Beetles and some plants collect fog. Lizards gear their life to the precise position of the sun. And tadpoles turn cannibal before their pool dries out. 055 Min. VIDEO Subject: ECOLOGY Series: LIVING PLANET, THE

VH 0874 Banking on Disaster
Summary: A three-part documentary filmed over a ten year period exposes the detrimental effects of deforestation, road building, and colonisation in Rondonia, Brazil. Story told through colonist, Renato Ferreira; ecologist, Jose Lutzenberger; and Seringuerio union leader, Chico Mendes. 078 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY, LATIN AMERICAN

VH 3273 Battle for the Great Plains
Summary: This program focuses on the struggle of the Great Plains people to peacefully coexist with nature and profiles their deep connection to the land and its history. Over 100 years ago, the vast stretch of land reaching from Texas to the Canadian wilderness home to millions of buffalo and scores of Native American tribe became known as the Great Plains. When settlers migrated to this frontier, its people, animal and land were forever changed. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES , NATIVE AMERICAN, ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY

VH 2251 Blue Planet
Summary: Filmed in IMAX by astronauts from five space shuttle mission Blue Planet dramatically reveals the forces affecting Earth's fragile ecological balance: hurricane volcano earthquakes and, ultimately, humankind. 042 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: ECOLOGY

VH 3169 Careers in Florida's Freshwater Environments
Summary: Produced especially for and field-tested on 7th and 8th grade students. Other student grades 4-10, also will learn something from this program. This fast-paced, musical video introduces students to the many occupations needed to protect and preserve our lake river and wetlands. 026 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY

VH 6213 Changing the Way the World Works
Summary: Investigates solutions to prevent worldwide ecological disaster. Concentrates on "end use philosophy", i.e., how can less energy be used and still give the world the life style it wants. 052 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: ECOLOGY Series: ENERGY ALTERNATIVE, THE

VH 0609 City in Sand/People of Desert/Muck and Mystery Man
Summary: The first 3 parts of this 11-part series examine critical issues affecting the environment: development, overpopulation, overuse of natural resource acid rain, and tropical deforestation. The last 8 parts of the series address a problem in one village or region and report on people who are working to reverse environmental damage. 120 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT Series: ONLY ONE EARTH

VH 4708 Collapse
Summary: Ancient civilizations send a warning to modern society. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, ECOLOGY, EARLY CIV

VH 2811 Community of the Skie The
Summary: The earth's covering is constantly on the move, with global currents that create our weather. The plants and animals that overcome gravity to live in this environment prevail over the most basic force of our existence- Attenborough demonstrates by becoming weightless. 055 Min. VIDEO Subject: ECOLOGY Series: LIVING PLANET, THE

VH 6758 Conserving America. The Rivers
Summary: Explores five historic American rivers and the people who are trying to protect them. The Federal Wild and Scenic Rivers Act protects only one percent of America's rivers. Dam channelization and industrial and urban development pose real problems in keeping our rivers unchanged for future generations. 059 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ECOLOGY

VH 0354 Cooperation Across Boundaries: The Acid Rain Dilemma
Summary: Explores acid precipitation as a problem calling for political and diplomatic solutions. Specifically looks at the effect of acid rain on US-Canadian relations and on interstate relation illustrating the legal difficulties of dealing with an environmental problem that has no boundaries. 032 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY

VH 0906 Creatures of the Namib Desert
Summary: Presents a documentary on the animals of Africa's Namib Desert. 059 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: ECOLOGY, BIOLOGY Series: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

VH 4692 Desert as a Laboratory
Summary: This program shows two examples of deserts that are being used as research models in the effort to understand the role of man in the ecosystem of the desert. 026 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY Series: MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE

VH 3569 Disasters
Summary: This program takes a look at some of the natural and manmade disasters that have occurred around the world over the past century. Using archival footage, the program revisits the sites of some of the century's worst disaster including erupting volcanoe earthquake cyclone flood fire and industrial accidents. 048 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY Series: HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY

VH 0449 Down in the Dumps
Summary: Examines the technological approaches to the garbage dilemma, including composting, resource recovery, and high-tech incinerators. Also discusses the public reaction to the location of new waste treatment facilities. 026 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY

VH 0726 Down Upon the Suwannee
Summary: Presents a popularized natural history of the Suwannee River region from the Okefenokee Swamp to the Suwannee delta on the Gulf of Mexico. 045 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES , ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT Series: STEP INTO NATURE

VH 4695 Ecology of the Coral Reef
Summary: This program looks at the ecosystem of coral reefs. It examines the natural disasters that threaten them, like severe storm or the proliferation of a species. In search of reasons why coral reefs are shrinking, the program looks at the effects of pollution. 023 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ECOLOGY Series: MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE

VH 0378 Embrace of the Sea: Florida's Coastal Waters
Summary: Provides information about the functioning, use and allocation of Florida's surface, underground and coastal water resource so that viewers may make informed decisions concerning the critical environmental issues affecting water in their state. Two videocassette VH 378 & 379. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT Series: FLORIDA WATER STORY, THE

VH 6773 Environment, The: A Historical Perspective
Summary: Explores the environmental impact humans have had on the planet and the future of ecology for the 21st century. 053 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY

VH 4693 Equilibrium in a Mountain Habitat
Summary: As populations increase, as forests are cut down, as habitats and species are destroyed, governments are sometimes able to set aside protected areas. this program looks at two such areas: in India and France. 024 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ECOLOGY Series: MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE

VH 3612 Evolution of Social of Behavior in Bees
Summary: The program tells the story of the evolution of cooperative social behavior in wasps and bee including solitary and social wasp bumblebee honey bee and others. The program explores the genetic theory of kin selection that may underlie the evolution of sociality in these insects. 054 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: BIOLOGY, ECOLOGY

VH 0607 Fate of the Forest, The
Summary: The first 3 parts of this 11-part series examine critical issues affecting the environment: development, overpopulation, overuse of natural resource acid rain, and tropical deforestation. The last 8 parts of the series address a problem in one village or region and report on people who are working to reverse environmental damage. 059 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT Series: ONLY ONE EARTH

VH 2799 Fighting
Summary: Whether to win food, to claim or hold a plot of territory, to capture a mate, fighting is accepted practice in the wild. Deciding whether to fight or flee depends on costs and rewards. Animals assess their own abilities against the potential damage of teeth, hooves and horns on the opponent. Then they fight with intensity proportioned to what they stand to gain or lose. All disputes do not have to end in violence, however. Ritualized encounters are 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ECOLOGY Series: TRIALS OF LIFE, THE

VH 2795 Finding Food
Summary: Finding food, and avoiding becoming food to other organism is a problem every animal faces. The vital quest opens up a complex world of intrigue and cunning, of ploy and counter ploy. Animals can avoid becoming someone's dinner by running or hiding. Plant without these defense have developed surprising ways to protect themselves. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ECOLOGY Series: TRIALS OF LIFE, THE

VH 2801 Finding The Way
Summary: Animals journey around the globe with amazing accuracy...an accuracy we have only matched with satellite navigation. Each year, Arctic terns leave their nests 600 miles from the North Pole and migrate 12, 000 miles. Then they return to nest within inches of their old homes. In the middle of the Sahara's Great Sand Sea, a tiny ant uses the sun as a compass to find its way in a featureless environment. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ECOLOGY Series: TRIALS OF LIFE, THE

VH 0379 Florida's Fragile Fountain / Golden Coin Silver Ribbons
Summary: Focuses on the unique makeup of Florida's soil, aquifer river and lakes. Two thirty minute programs. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT Series: FLORIDA WATER STORY, THE

VH 3446 Florida Yards & Neighborhoods: Reclaiming Paradise
Summary: An informative program on ecologically sound ways to landscape home grounds in Florida. 028 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY

VH 2800 Friends And Rivals
Summary: Many animals find it advantageous to live in group and their communities work more efficiently if they have some form of social structure. Inevitable squabbles over food, nesting place arguments over mates must be settled with a minimum expenditure of time and energy. True socialite the vampire bats not only scratch one another's back but also share each other's meals. The leaf cutting ant colony is like a single superorganism. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ECOLOGY Series: TRIALS OF LIFE, THE

VH 2806 Frozen World, The
Summary: From the snowy peaks of the Andes to Antarctica, Attenborough explores remote places where plants and animals survive in the most extreme conditions. 055 Min. VIDEO Subject: ECOLOGY, BIOLOGY Series: LIVING PLANET, THE

VH 0757 Gertrude Blom: Guardian Of The Rainforest
Summary: Examines the life of "Trudi" Blom, the Swiss born conservationist who has spent her life protecting the rain forests of southern Mexico and preserving the culture of its native inhabitants. 057 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY

VH 5333 Get a Grip!
Summary: Lets teens know that they can make purchasing decisions that have a positive, or negative, effect on the environment. Eco-efficiency is the next step past reduce, reuse, and recycle. By understanding eco-efficiency citizens can make decision everyday that in effect leaves only a light footprint on the earth. 013 Min. VIDEO Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMICS

VH 3458 Gore's Remarks On The Everglades
Summary: Florida Democratic Party Convention Excerpt: Gore's remarks on the Everglades. CSPAN-TV Cable December 9, 1995. Vice President Al Gore. 008 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY

VH 0658 Greenhouse Effect, The
Summary: Investigates the misuse of the earth's resources: burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, which traps the sun's heat and raises the world's temperature. The impact on sea level, crop growth, and rainfall addresses questions vital to the survival of life. 050 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY

VH 2794 Growing Up
Summary: Attenborough say "The task of gaining size and strength sufficient to survive unaided is the main task of childhood." From abandoned babies to those cared for by generations of family like elephant communal nurseries and synchronized birthing season the responsibilities of child care and teaching of the young shows again that growing up in the natural world is a complex and hazardous business. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ECOLOGY Series: TRIALS OF LIFE, THE

VH 3550 Hawaii: Strangers In Paradise
Summary: Explore the Hawaiian Island an archipelago born of volcanic eruptions tens of millions of years ago. Fertile for evolution and protected by the immense Pacific Ocean, this isolated tropical haven produced an explosion of wildlife found nowhere else on earth. 060 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: GEOGRAPHY, ECOLOGY Series: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

VH 2797 Homemaking
Summary: At some time in their live if not throughout them, animals need homes. To accomplish this they have become potters and plasterer weavers and needle worker miner masons thatchers and sculptors. Like human they worry about the costs of home repair, deterring unwanted guests and keeping the weather out. Prairie dogs reduce the stuffiness of their burrows with a built in air conditioning system. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ECOLOGY Series: TRIALS OF LIFE, THE

VH 7931 Human Faces Behind the Rain Forest
Summary: Documents the dramatic events surrounding the harvest of the opium poppy crop in the Colombian rain forest, through the experiences of the peasants and other indigenous peoples involved in the harvest. Shows how specific social and economic conditions forced many of Colombia's indigenous communities into the poppy trade. 030 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: ECOLOGY, LATIN AMERICAN

VH 2796 Hunting & Escaping
Summary: Life and death duels are the daily routine of life in the wild. The desperate battles between assassins and their victims have fueled an evolutionary arms race resulting in an art of pursuit and evasion. All confrontations end in one of two way the predator goes hungry or the prey loses its life. Every conceivable stratagem is needed by both the hunter and the hunted: traps and bait warnings and deception brute force and sheer 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ECOLOGY, BIOLOGY Series: TRIALS OF LIFE, THE

VH 2209 Hurricane
Summary: This program goes along for the data-gathering flight into the eye of Gilbert, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded, with winds approaching 200 miles per hour. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ECOLOGY

VH 8182 In Good Hands: Culture And Agriculture In The Lacandon...
Summary: Travels into the rain forests of southern Mexico to explore the Lacando n Maya's centuries-old sustainable agriculture system that cycles forest land from garden plot through regrowth and eventually back to forest again. Reveals the connections between Lacandon culture and agriculture, relates how respect for the environment allows these people to live in the forest without destroying it, and notes the dangers posed by modernization and civil strife. Dr. James Nation an ecological anthropologist with Conservation International, has lived with the Lacandones for three years in the mid-1970's and has been visiting them since. Complete title: "In Good Hands: Culture And Agriculture In The Lacandone Rainforest"/ directed by Jaime Kibben. 028 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ECOLOGY

VH 0397 Istokpoga Lake of Legends
Summary: The story of how citizen lawmakers and government agencies are working together to solve major aquatic plant problems and restore to health Florida's fifth largest lake. 039 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT Series: AQUATIC PLANT MANAGEMENT

VH 2808 Jungle
Summary: The kapok tree rises above the jungle canopy. Attenborough takes us on a vertical journey down the tree, through the various layers of the forest, finding colorful and extraordinary plants and animals all along the way. 055 Min. VIDEO Subject: ECOLOGY Series: LIVING PLANET, THE

VH 4690 Lagoons
Summary: Lagoons are nature's preserve for waterfowl, alligator and other reptiles. The nature of the lagoon has proved a lure to the species that is destroying the lagoons by building cities on their shore-- man. 026 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY Series: MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE

VH 2798 Living Together
Summary: Committed by evolution to live together, animal partnership are widespread in the natural world. Some of these relationships between species are ancient and intimate. All reflect a balance of benefit and exploitation. A Gaby acts as look-out for a shrimp, which is almost blind. Ferocious Australian ants milk a certain caterpillar, and like good farmer return it to shelter at night. Some microscopic parasites perform beneficial cleaning services for their 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ECOLOGY, BIOLOGY Series: TRIALS OF LIFE, THE

VH 4674 Maps With Teeth
Summary: Bioregions are the ways the worlds divides up naturally--defined by climate, mountain etc.. This is not the way we are used to looking at the world. 026 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, ECOLOGY Series: WAYS WE LIVE: EXPLORING COMMUNITY

VH 2813 Margins of the Land, The
Summary: Life between the tides is a fertile home to creatures adapted to a shifting world of mud and sand. 055 Min. VIDEO Subject: ECOLOGY Series: LIVING PLANET, THE

VH 0012 Nature: Jet Set Wildlife
Summary: Shows how the introduction of non-native animal and plant species to Florida has crowded out native species. 060 Min. VIDEO Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, BIOLOGY

VH 2816 New Worlds
Summary: Man has changed the face of the planet, causing destruction but also creating new habitats for plants and animals. Adaptability is the key to survival, and Attenborough provides a glimpse into the possible future of the Living Planet. 055 Min. VIDEO Subject: ECOLOGY Series: LIVING PLANET, THE

VH 2807 Northern Forest, The
Summary: Coniferous trees have adapted to enable survival over long, cold winters. The animals that inhabit these vast forest depend on their leave cones or bar. Further south, the deciduous woodland forms the scene as bear skunk raccoon squirrels and opossums put on fat for the winter. 055 Min. VIDEO Subject: ECOLOGY Series: LIVING PLANET, THE

VH 2815 Oceans
Summary: Over 70% of the planet's surface is covered by sea. A look at the oceans from drowned plains and hidden mountains to minute drifting plankton and forest of kelp. 055 Min. VIDEO Subject: ECOLOGY, BIOLOGY Series: LIVING PLANET, THE

VH 6215 Power to the People
Summary: Focuses on energy policies in the developing world, especially India and Zimbabwe, where the energy debate is carried on against a background of poverty, limited resources and rapidly growing population. Among the affordable solutions demonstrated are more efficient stoves and faster growing trees. 052 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: ECOLOGY Series: ENERGY ALTERNATIVE, THE

VH 4694 Preserving the Rainforest
Summary: People came out of the African forest, and continue to live in equilibrium with the tropical forest in Africa, Brazil, and elsewhere. Trouble only begins when they begin to cultivate plants in the forest, cutting down the trees and burning brush; the soil is soon exhausted, and the would be farmers move elsewhere. 024 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ECOLOGY Series: MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE

VH 3610 Private Lives of Dolphin The
Summary: This program delves into the deep-sea drama of life among the dolphins at research stations in Florida and Australia. Like humans and chimpanzee dolphins have evolved a sophisticated social system that provides clues about the origins and purpose of big brains and intelligence. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: BIOLOGY, ECOLOGY

VH 5123 Problem of Scale in Ecology
Summary: Environmental and ecological problems are currently front-burner national issues. This videotape presents a lecture by and an interview with Simon Levin, one of the leaders in the application of mathematics in these areas. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: ECOLOGY, MATHEMATICS Series: AMS-MAA JOINT LECTURE SERIES

VH 2600 Protecting Florida's Water
Summary: Using the septic tank system to protect Florida's water. 028 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT

VH 0907 Rain Forest
Summary: Showcases the rare beauty and rich variety of plant and animal life found in Costa Rican rain forest. Also examines the impact of man's exploitation of the rain forest on this fragile ecosystem. 060 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: ECOLOGY Series: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

VH 3452 Raincatcher
Summary: A conservation video that promotes a balance between natural and developed West Palm Beach, Florida. Features Mayor Nancy Graham. 009 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY

VH 0469 Restoring the Environment
Summary: Shows how technology is being used to correct environmental problems such as toxic waste clean-up. 028 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY

VH 6214 Rich Get Richer, The
Summary: Focuses on tough, innovative laws and fresh initiatives world wide which are helping to contain energy consumption and pollution. We see a computerized energy management system in a home and in a high efficiency office building. 052 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: ECOLOGY Series: ENERGY ALTERNATIVE, THE

VH 1266 Rivers to the Sea
Summary: The river is a living current, a wellspring for creatures of the land, sea and air. Through the season and along its course, the river is the thread that binds together species as different as salmon, lamprey ospreys-and humans. 046 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT

VH 0605 Road to Ruin
Summary: The first 3 parts of this 11 part-series examine critical issues affecting the environment: development, overpopulation, overuse of natural resource acid rain, and tropical deforestation. The last 8 parts of the series address a problem in one village or region and report on people who are working to reverse environmental damage. 053 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY Series: ONLY ONE EARTH

VH 8410 Sacred Living Geometry: The Enlightened Environmental Theori
Summary: Callum Coates presents a lecture on the life, theory and inventions of Austrian ecologist Viktor Schauberger. Through an understanding of nature's principle seen in the flowing motion of water, Victor Schauberger gave the world a vision of how technology could be transformed to render free, non-polluting energy for our use. Tape 1 of 2. 180 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: ECOLOGY, MATHEMATICS

VH 8411 Sacred Living Geometry: The Enlightened Environmental Theori
Summary: Callum Coates presents a lecture on the life, theory and inventions of Austrian ecologist Viktor Schauberger. Through an understanding of nature's principle seen in the flowing motion of water, Victor Schauberger gave the world a vision of how technology could be transformed to render free, non-polluting energy for our use. Tape 2 of 2. 180 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: ECOLOGY, MATHEMATICS

VH 6972 Sahara: A Place of Extremes
Summary: The first part of the video "The Dance of the Jinni" focuses on the sand and heat of the Sahara and the animals that live there. The second part "Sahara: The Nectar of Life" highlights the rains and frigid temperatures of the Atlas Mountains. 120 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: ECOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY

VH 2809 Seas of Grass
Summary: It grows all over the world, sustaining a host of creatures. Here we go to the African grassland home to antelope, zebra and wildebeest, along with their predators the lion and cheetah. 055 Min. VIDEO Subject: ECOLOGY Series: LIVING PLANET, THE

VH 0216 Seasons in the Swamp
Summary: Depicts the dynamics and diversity of primeval nature at the 400 acre Barley Barbour Swamp, located just east of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida. 028 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ECOLOGY, BIOLOGY

VH 0606 Sinking Ark
Summary: The first 3 parts of this 11-part series examine critical issues affecting the environment: development, overpopulation, overuse of natural resource acid rain, and tropical deforestation. The last 8 parts of the series address a problem in one village or region and report on people who are working to reverse environmental damage. 058 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT Series: ONLY ONE EARTH

VH 3611 Spider Webs: A Study in the Evolution of Behavior
Summary: This program offers a study in the evolution of behavior, tracing the possible evolution of the orb web from nursery web funnel-web and cob webs. The program also includes details of web-spinning and prey-catching behavior. 012 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: BIOLOGY, ECOLOGY

VH 2668 Spirit and Nature
Summary: At Middlebury College in Vermont, representatives of major world religions join the community to wrestle with the challenge of the deepening global environmental crisis. They address the ethical and spiritual aspects of our ecological concern raising issues of responsibility for each other and for all the species on the planet, our inter-relationship with other parts of the cosmo and the need to see nature as sacred. 088 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT

VH 0608 Struggling People/Valley of Heart's Delight/Big Fish...
Summary: The first 3 parts of this 11-part series examine critical issues affecting the environment: development, overpopulation, overuse of natural resource acid rain, and tropical deforestation. The last 8 parts of the series address a problem in one village of region and report on people who are working to reverse environmental damage. 120 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT Series: ONLY ONE EARTH

VH 3412 Sugar Scandal: A Special Report
Summary: Hosted by Ed Asner and presented by the National Audubon Society. This video gives a brief history of the fight between environmentalists and sugar farmers in South Florida over who should pay to clean up the Everglades. See VH 3453 "Sugar Scandal: Sugar Farming in Florida's Everglades", a longer and more detailed version. 011 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION, ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY

VH 3453 Sugar Scandal: Sugar Farming in Florida's Everglades
Summary: Hosted by Ed Asner and presented by the National Audubon Society. This video gives a detailed history of the fight between environmentalists and sugar farmers in South Florida. Environmentalists say that farmers have polluted the Everglades and they should be the ones to clean it. Farmers contend that they aren't the only ones to cause harm and that they are already paying their share. See also VH 3412, "Sugar Scandal A Special Report", a shorter version of this program. 046 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMICS

VH 2812 Sweet Fresh Water
Summary: The world's largest river system - the Amazon - is the focus here. From its source in the Peruvian Andes to its coastal delta in Brazil, the power of the river shapes the landscape. 055 Min. VIDEO Subject: ECOLOGY Series: LIVING PLANET, THE

VH 0467 Tides of Time
Summary: Explores the short-term struggle to save endangered coastlines and the implications of the "greenhouse effect" which portends the rising of the oceans and the flooding of present day coastal cities. 026 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT

VH 0215 To Catch a Cloud
Summary: A presentation about the nature of the atmosphere. Scientists provide insight into research concerning acid rain and man's impact on the environment. 028 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT

VH 4697 Toward a Livable City
Summary: This program looks at the development of Barcelona. When population growth began to take the city over the government intervened with a plan to make life in the city more pleasant. 027 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY Series: MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE

VH 0468 Toxic Goldrush, The
Summary: Discusses the need for regulation of the toxic waste disposal, now that it has become big business. 032 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT

VH 7029 Trade Secrets - A Moyers Report
Summary: Exposes the 40 year history of the American chemical industry's suppression of information regarding the threats to public health by synthetic chemicals being introduced into the environment at all levels. Addresses the danger to public health by the continued use of approximately 9000 of the 15, 000 mass produced chemical substances that have never undergone toxicological study in the United States. 120 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, CHEMISTRY, ECOLOGY, AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3597 Travelers in Time
Summary: Could we survive without other animals? We have torn down forests and killed indiscriminately - disturbing the ecosystem that supports us all. We destroy fragile food chains - overfishing the Arctic krill that feed the seal gull and penguins. Our art language and cultures are filled with animal imagery. And science itself has learned much from echo-locating dolphin the electric fields of sharks - even the semaphoring cuttlefish. We are poised on a threshold: technology can inform us further about animal communication and behavior or remove us from the animal world of which we have been a part for millions of years. 027 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY, ECOLOGY Series: OURSELVES AND OTHER ANIMALS

VH 4688 Tropical Rainforest, The
Summary: Most forests are in the tropic on either side of the equator. Temperatures are high and rain falls are heavy and not seasonal. This program looks at the ecosystem of the rain forest: the height of the trees and the adaptation of leaves to heavy rainfall, the roles of liane the ecological roles of marsupials and monkey etc... 028 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY Series: MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE

VH 4691 Urban Ecology
Summary: With world population topping five billion and industrialization and agricultural mechanization both increasing apace, the obvious stress point is the city. The problems multiply with the population. The problems come with urbanization, but they differ in different cities. 024 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ECOLOGY Series: MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE

VH 3067 W. S. Merwin
Summary: In dark, outraged, and often pessimistic tone Pulitzer Prize winning poet W. S. Merwin writes of the treasures of the earth, and man's alienation and destruction of nature. Speaking from his passion for trees and other life form he strives to open our eyes to the fact that urban reality is not the only reality. 030 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: WRITER ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY Series: MOVEABLE FEAST

VH 1673 Wasting of a Wetland, The
Summary: In the Everglade not only is a unique legacy of wildlife being lost, but with it the sole source of fresh water for Southern Florida, America's fastest growing population center. It is a microcosm of modern environmental problems with growing human populations consuming their own most vital resources. 023 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY

VH 1264 Water
Summary: An Examination of freshwater ecosystem the effects of damming and diversion, a resource management tool used to establish limits for the amount of phosphorus loaded into water, and scientific responsibilities for maintaining healthy ecosystem. Students also learn what dams are for and how they're built. And they gain an understanding of the responsibility of engineers in resolving environmental problems. The history of the Oldman River is a fascinating story. Water management in southern Alberta is examined. A case-study of the Hamilton Harbour clean-up is viewed from the citizens' perspective, and the issue of society's responsibility regarding water management is raised. 060 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT Series: PERSPECTIVES IN SCIENCE

VH 4696 Wetlands and Pinelands
Summary: This program is devoted to a study of wetlands ecosystem from the Pine Barrens of New Jersey to areas of Mexico and Belize. 024 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ECOLOGY Series: MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE

VH 0611 Whale Dolphins & Men
Summary: Explores the extraordinary intelligence and behavior of whales and dolphins. Also examines the whaling industry and presents a case for the preservation of whales. 050 Min. VIDEO 1973 Subject: ECOLOGY

VH 1463 Where Have All the Dolphins Gone?
Summary: Hosted by George C. Scott. Discusses the killing of dolphin especially in the tropical eastern part of the Pacific Ocean, by tuna fisherman using purse seines. 060 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: ECOLOGY

VH 2814 Worlds Apart
Summary: Islands...how do plants and animals arrive at such remote location and how do they survive when they get there? Attenborough lands on Aldabra Island in the Indian Ocean to visit giant tortoises that survive in a hostile landscape of jagged coral. 055 Min. VIDEO Subject: ECOLOGY Series: LIVING PLANET, THE