Our Round Earth: What It's Like

Physical features such as gulf, peninsula, island, etc, are defined and basic principles of using colors to show elevation are illustrated with models.

This documentary shows the characteristics and location of major plains and plateaus of North America, and discusses some of the ways in which they have affected man's use of the land.

Uses animation, wave tank, live-action photography, and underwater models to show how waves develop, how coastlines are shaped, and to describe the forces that change the sea bottom.

Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer Wells, one of a group of scientists studying the origin of human life, offers evidence and theories to support such a thesis in this PBS special. He claims that Africa was populated by only a few thousand people that some deserted their homeland in a conquest that has resulted in global domination.

Through animation, maps of the same scale and projection are combined to show relationships between natural features of the earth, human use, and social and political features. Projects different kinds of animated maps of the same scale and explains how the maps are used in gaining an understanding of the relationships between the social, political, and natural features of the earth.

Documentary film about the Czechoslovak natural science group's expedition to Iceland in June 1948.

It shows the Neretva river from its source to the shores of the Adriatic Sea. The document also captures the original four-hundred-year-old bridge in Mostar.