A Greener Shade of Whale

 A History of the International Whaling Commission

51 min 41 sec

9/11 The falling man

September 11 2001 was a day of many incredible and shocking stories: stories of survivors, stories of heroes. But there was one story that people didn’t want to face. The story of the people who began to jump from the World Trade Center just minutes after the first plane hit. Their images were caught on videotape and in photographs, but soon they were never seen again, as if they had never existed.Among those pictures is one of the most unforgettable images from 9/11 – a photograph of a falling man, frozen in mid air, his body perfectly parallel with the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

1 hr 11 min 26 sec

 

Beaumont Newhall: The History of Photography

Beaumont Newhall, who died in 1993, was the author of “The History of Photography,” probably the single most important book on the subject. Learn about photography from the premier scholar of the medium, and meet some of his students. Orginally broadcast on New Mexico PBS station KNME-TV.

25 min 33 sec

Atheism: Jonathan Miller’s Brief History of Disbelief – Shadows of Doubt

 Jonathan Miller visits the absent Twin Towers to consider the religious implications of 9/11 and meets Arthur Miller and the philosopher Colin McGinn. He searches for evidence of the first ‘unbelievers’ in Ancient Greece and examines some of the modern theories around why people have always tended to believe in mythology and magic.

59 min 3 sec

Atheism: Jonathan Miller’s Brief History of Disbelief – Shadows of Doubt

 Jonathan Miller visits the absent Twin Towers to consider the religious implications of 9/11 and meets Arthur Miller and the philosopher Colin McGinn. He searches for evidence of the first ‘unbelievers’ in Ancient Greece and examines some of the modern theories around why people have always tended to believe in mythology and magic.

59 min 3 sec