Life [videorecording] : life on the edge / produced by Television Trust for the Environment

Additional Titles:: Life on the edge, Title on container: Life 6, and Also known as: Life series 6
Published:: Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, [2008]
Copyright Date:: ©2008
Physical Description:: 11 videodiscs (approximately 30 min. each) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Creators:: Bower, Dick, Television Trust for the Environment, BBC Worldwide Ltd, and Bullfrog Films

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Series:

Life. Series 6

Language Note:

In English with optional caption for the hearing impaired and audio description for the visually impaired.

Contents:

1. Edge of Islam -- 2. Castro or quit? -- 3. No country for young girls? -- 4. The unforgiven -- 5. Looking for my gypsy roots -- 6. The dilemma of the white ant -- 7. Three sisters -- 8. The pied piper of Eyasi -- 9. The prince -- 10. Running on empty -- 11. Collision course.

Summary:

Life series 6 is a 11 part series that examines countries struggling to meet their promises to deliver on the Millennium Development Goals before the target date of 2015. Life on planet Earth is changing faster than ever before. Whether it's globalization or the clash of civilizations that it has provoked, people face agonizing dilemmas and choices for which history has no guide. They are especially dramatic choices for the billions of people still living on the edge from Europe's Roma to Australia's aborigines.

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Audience Notes:

Grades 7-12, College, Adult.

Note:

These discs are recorded DVDs and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
"BBC World"--Container.
Episode numbers taken from labels and containers.

Creation/Production Credits Note:

Series producer, Dick Bower.

Technical Details:

DVD-R, NTSC.

Terms of Use and Reproduction:

Greater Allegheny copy includes public performance rights.

Source of Acquisition:

Greater Allegheny copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2010.

Endowment Note:

Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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