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 Documentaries Voyage of the Nautilus: The Greatest Australian Adventure Never ToldApril 2009
It's a story that sounds fit for Hollywood, or at the very least, fodder for national myth-making: a South Australian boy from an impoverished background grows up to be a fearless adventurer; he hatches a plan, dubbed suicidal by many, to captain a cramped submarine more than 3,000 km under Arctic ice to the North Pole. He does all this purely in the pursuit of knowledge.  The Human Mind: and How to Make the Most of itFebruary 2009
The Human Mind is a three-part TV series presented by eminent British reproductive scientist and fervent science communicator Robert Winston.  Egypt: New Discoveries & Ancient MysteriesFebruary 2009
Do not watch this expecting a glamorous British documentary of Egypt and it's mysteries.  Manufactured LandscapesNovember 2008
This eerie film follows renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky through China, as he captures the effects of its massive industrial revolution.  The Pill: The Liberation of WomenJuly 2007
By the age of 37, my (Protestant) paternal grandmother had borne 13 children — rather more than she'd intended. My maternal grandmother had only four children, but she sometimes said that she wouldn't have had any had the pill had been available in her day. In the last 50 years, the freedom for a woman to control her own fertility, to have children only by choice, has changed women's lives dramatically.  Monkey Trial: Evolution, Creationism and Free Speech in CourtApril 2007
The Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925 is the most famous showdown so far between evolution and creationism. Rather than going into the rights and wrongs of the scientific issues, this documentary looks at the personalities and movements behind the event, using contemporary newsreel footage, photographs and newspapers, as well as the usual interviews with historians and biographers, plus relatively subtle reenactments, to help the viewer understand what it was like to be there.  Mars: Dead or Alive; Welcome to MarsApril 2007
These two complementary DVDs chronicle the program to deliver Mars exploration rovers Spirit and Opportunity safely onto the surface of the red planet, and reveal a little of what they found when they got there.  The Ascent of ManAugust 2006
With today's television largely devoted to supplying what the Latin poet Juvenal described as "bread and circuses", it comes as a surprise to discover just how challenging and engaging the medium can be when used to its potential.  The Blue PlanetAugust 2006
There is little doubt that the world would be a poorer place without the BBC's natural science documentaries, as it would without the well-modulated passions of David Attenborough.  E=mc²August 2006
Everyone's heard of it, but what does E=mc² - the world's most famous equation - really mean? And why did it change the world? A review of the DVD edition of the Nova television series.  Breaking the IceJune 2006
One of the bigger differences between the BBC's natural history programs and those made within Australia is the matter of scale. Where blue-shirted David Attenborough pops up all over the globe with his inexhaustible revelations, Tim Bowden, for example, reserves his reflective whimsy for subjects which, while no less attractive, are perhaps closer at hand and more familiar. 
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