DVD CATALOGUE - Marcom Projects

SACRED BALANCE -
NATURE OF THINGS
What is the role of human beings in
the sacred balance of life? Since
human beings first appeared on Earth,
they have lived in a sacred relationship
with the place they inhabit, the land
they depend on. We all know where
home is – it’s with our family, with
memory and hope. But our family is far
larger than we realize. We’re at home
in the human community, and in the
biosphere, close relatives of every living thing. We are all
creatures of the living Earth. The important thing – and
what this remarkable series explores – is that if we can
see and feel the web we’re a part of, we can change the
way we act towards it. Featuring David Suzuki. Set of 4
- 4x52. DVD SET 6SBSB
Journey into New Worlds
The achievements of science have came at a cost. What have we gained?
What have we lost? A look at the promise and limitations of reductionist
science and celebration of the inter-connectedness of all living things.
DVD - 6SBSB01 Price a. $88 b. $132 c. $39.95
The Matrix of Life
Water and air move endlessly together, atoms linking and delinking to form
ocean and atmosphere. This episode reveals how scientists are discovering
just how complex this matrix is, along with where and how water defies
human boundaries.
DVD - 6SBSB02 Price a. $88 b. $132 c. $39.95
Fire of Creation
This episode delves into the way the cosmos began. In a single moment,
matter coalesced and the stars turned on. All life on Earth is forged in
the furnace of the sun and human beings are its children. How do we
accumulate these cosmic energies and transform them into matter?
DVD - 6SBSB03 Price a. $88 b. $132 c. $39.95
Coming Home
Humans have another need beyond the physical - a spiritual connection
and understanding of where we belong. If we can see and feel the web that
we’re part of, we can change the way we act towards it. Can’t we?
DVD - 6SBSB04 Price a. $88 b. $132 c. $39.95
SAVE Set of 4 - Price a. $330 b. $495 c. $150
Leonardo’s
Dream Machines
Five centuries after they
were sketched in Leonardo
Da Vinci’s notebooks, this
series brings together leading
BEST
SELLER
engineers, designers and craftsmen to build two
of the legendary artist, inventor and scientist’s
fantastical machines - a giant crossbow and a
flying machine. The program also looks at the life
of the greatest of Renaissance men and the obsession with invention that
was to last his lifetime. Leading experts in art, design, medicine and flight
tell how Leonardo’s ideas inspired future experimenters and often predated
modern ‘discoveries’ by hundreds of years.
Duration 2x50min
DVD - 6SBLDM Price a. $110 b. $165 c. $49.95
Inner Adventure
What is the earliest stage in the birth of new life
that we can observe? The mechanisms brought into
play seem so complex, innumerable, microscopic
that the very thought of explaining them and
visualising them seems like an insurmountable
challenge. The objective of this film will be to come
as close as possible to this miracle, by undertaking
a fantastic voyage to the interior of our bodies, to
observe the birth of life in all its phases: from the
quest for a partner, through to the sexual act, fertilisation, the growth of the
egg and the foetus, up to the moment when the child comes into the world.
We will also show how the first cells of the embryo’s eye multiply, align
themselves, lose their nuclei and mitochondria and transform themselves
into the long transparent fibres that form the crystalline lens.
2005 Duration 50min
DVD - 6SBIA Price a. $88 b. $132 c. $39.95
Danger Virus
Viruses, those invisible micro-organisms capable
of causing fearful diseases in humans, for the most
part remain an enigma for modern science. Able to
mutate, to adapt, to use host cell mechanisms to
reproduce themselves with astounding rapidity,
unpredictable, viruses sometimes seem to have
presented humanity with a veritable challenge.
More worrying still than the viruses themselves are
the research programs for bacteriological weapons
using viruses. Yet, although a virus may be synonymous with disease, it
can be positive and beneficial in certain cases, and even an effective agent
in the battle against disease, notably cancer. A few examples illustrating
the new paths being explored at present in virology, and that could lead us
to reconsider our perceptions of viruses.
2005 Duration 50min
DVD - 6SBDV Price a. $88 b. $132 c. $39.95
Bioterror
This program probes the dark past and horrifying
prospects of bioterrorism as a new form of warfare.
It highlights the secret biological revolution that
was pioneered by the U.S., honed to perfection by
the Soviet Union, and then adopted by Iraq and
terrorist cells around the world. Discusses the very
latest on germ warfare with virtually every major
authority on bioterrorism, including veterans of:
U.S.; the Soviet program that perfected anthrax,
smallpox and other pathogens; the U.N. effort to track down Iraq and
Saddam Hussein’s biological weapons in the wake of the Gulf War.
2002 Duration 90min
DVD - 6SBBIO Price a. $110 b. $165 c. $49.95
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