DVDs recommended by the Geography Department Title Recommended for year group Why should I watch it? Price on Amazon Wild South America: Andes to Amazon Y7,8,10,11 This DVD will transport you to the amazing continent that is South America! From mountains of almost 7000m high to the world’s largest rainforest. Useful for year 7 geographers looking to learn more about South America and provides a great experience of the rainforest for year 8 and GCSE geographers. £5.25 Amazon Y8, 10, 11 Bruce Parry spent almost a year travelling 2800km along the world’s largest river. One fifth of all freshwater on planet Earth is contained in the Amazon River at any one time! This fascinating series follows the river from its tiny trickling source in the mountains to the huge mouth which flows into the Atlantic Ocean. £7.17 Top Gear: The Great Adventures 3 Y8, 10, 11 Everyone knows how entertaining the Top Gear adventures are as Clarkson, Hammond and May take on seemingly impossible and everything goes wrong! What you probably didn’t realise is that the Top Gear adventures cover some incredible geography! If you want to understand just how difficult it is to survive in the environment of the Bolivian rainforest, check out disc one. £7.97 Top Gear - The Great Adventures 1 & 2 Box Set Y10, 11 Everyone knows how entertaining the Top Gear adventures are as Clarkson, Hammond and May take on seemingly impossible and everything goes wrong! What you probably didn’t realise is that the Top Gear adventures cover some incredible geography! £10.97 Watch as the Top Gear boys become the first humans on the planet to drive to the North Pole and understand just how extreme an environment this is! Wild Weather Bear Grylls - Born Survivor: Season 2 Y9 This DVD was released when Miss Stafford was at school (yes, DVDs did exist when Miss Stafford was at school, and not even in black and white) and is still the best series for explaining weather. Not just everyday clouds, wind and rain, but EXTREME weather events, as Donal Macintyre explores the coldest, hottest, wettest and windiest places on Earth. £4.97 Y10, 11, 9 Bear Grylls - unrivalled survival expert! Watch as he takes on the Sahara desert, Patagonian ice fields, the Panama jungle, the Siberian cold, Southern Africa and Sumatra's deadly ring of fire and gain an £14.99 understanding of some of the challenges Earth’s environments can throw at man! Supervolcano Y8, 10, 11 The year is 2020 and the world faces the ultimate threat. Not nuclear war or a terrorist attack, but the eruption of a gigantic 'supervolcano' simmering beneath Yellowstone Park. The last eruption of this kind plunged the world into darkness for six years, triggered the last Ice Age and reduced the human population to just 2,000 people. Scientists know that the molten lava bulging against the Earth's crust in Yellowstone will explode; it's just a question of when! This powerful, reality-based thriller explores the environmental, political, economic and social impact of such a cataclysmic event. An old classic of a weather movie from 1996! With the addition of a bit of Hollywood effect, this movie tells the story of how a series of twisters could affect small town America. £4.97 Twister Y9 Ice Age 2: The Meltdown Y8 Everyone loves the crazy characters from Ice Age! Ice Age 2: The Meltdown sees these critters face the challenges of global warming as their habitat begins to melt, leading to major flooding… £3.48 Y7, 8 Rio is a parrot from the rainforest who has grown up in captivity, as he’s been kept as a pet in North America. As man is cutting down the rainforest the animals living there are dying out. Rio is the last remaining male of his species. When he finds this out he sets off on a mission to return to his rainforest home and save his species. This animated adventure will show you South America from the city of Rio to the rainforest of the Amazon. Over the Hedge – great characters and great fun! It covers some great geography too! Watching this animated tale will help you understand some of the land use we look at in geography, as the story is all about migration and the difference between the city, suburbs and countryside. £5.00 A GCSE level documentary hosted by Andrew Marr. This series explores some of the world largest cities or metropolises and looks behind the scenes at how these cities are run. £.9.49 Rio Over the Hedge Andrew Marr's Megacities Y7 Y10, 11 £8.61 £4.04 Richard Hammond's Journey to the Centre of the Planet Y8, 10, 11 When he’s not busy hosting Top Gear, Richard Hammond is journeying to the centre of the planet! If you want to understand tectonic processes and why we get earthquakes and volcanoes, this is the series for you – clear explanations and animations help make sense of some tricky geography. £5.88 The Truth About Climate Change Y8, 10, 11 Global warming….we hear about it all the time in the media. Now uncover the science behind the headlines with truth about climate change. £7.99 An inconvenient truth Y8, 10, 11 A documentary which was shown in cinemas around the world and won lots of awards. The documentary is hosted by the man who could have been president of the USA, Al Gore, who believes climate change is the greatest ever risk to planet Earth. Although a bit one-sided, this thought-provocking film gives a really good overview of the causes and potential effects of climate change. £4.27 Tribe Y8, 10, 11 Bruce Parry thought making documentaries about different tribes around the world wasn’t quite good enough, so he went one step further and went to live with these tribes! Many of these indigenous groups of people have never had any contact with the outside world, so this series provides a really unique insight into how they live, the environments they live in and how they survive without electricity or a local supermarket to get their dinner from! Adventurous presenter Bruce Parry spent time living in the Arctic, from staying in modern day towns to living with Inuit hunters. A real insight into the white icy environment of the Arctic and how people survive in it. £10.89 Now in its amazing seventh year, coast is an incredibly successful series which explores the edge of our island home – the coastline of the UK where the land meets the sea. Covering a great mixture of £8.17 Arctic with Bruce Parry Coast – Series 1 (Plus any others too!) Y10, 11 Y10 £8.99 physical and human geography, this series looks at everything from the processes which shape the coastline to the behind the scenes stories of the people living and working at the coast throughout its history. Planet Earth Sahara with Michael Palin All years Our amazing planet home! This famous BBC series looks at it all, from the highest mountains to the deepest oceans…the driest deserts to the lushest rainforests. If you want to fall in love with Earth and geography, watch this series! £10.89 Y10, 11 Michael Palin…geography hero! From around the world in 80 days, to Pole to Pole, he’s travelled every corner of the Earth and made documentaries about it all! £7.17 In this series Michael Palin explores the world’s largest desert, the Sahara. A great watch to understand this extreme environment and how people live, work and survive there. Blue Planet Y9 Another epic series from the BBC nature unit! The blue planet tells the stories of the world’s oceans and all the life they contain, from the frozen seas of the arctic to the pitch-black and freezing deep oceans trenches of the Pacific. £8.03 Frozen Planet Y10, 11 £14.95 Michael Palin: Himalaya Y10, 11 The latest epic from the BBC, this 2011 series is hosted by the national treasure that is David Attenborough! Filmed over four years, the BBC spent more than £16 million pounds on this incredible series. Frozen Planet takes you on the ultimate polar expedition. This landmark series brings to the screen the frozen wildernesses of the Arctic and Antarctic as you have never seen them before, and may never see them again… Michael Palin…geography hero! From around the world in 80 days, to Pole to Pole, he’s travelled every corner of the Earth and made documentaries about it all! £10.57 In this series, Michael Palin explores the highest mountain range on Earth, looking at how this unique landscape was formed and how people live, work and survive in such a challenging place. Also includes a look at the mystery and excitement revolving around the highest mountain on the planet, Everest. Michael Palin’s New Europe Y10, 11 Michael Palin…geography hero! From around the world in 80 days, to Pole to Pole, he’s travelled every corner of the Earth and made documentaries about it all! Eastern Europe is very different from the Europe we know and live in. Many Eastern European countries were under communist rule and have fairly recently opened up to the outside world. Michael Palin explores the culture of these countries and looks at £9.69 what the future may hold for them as European nations. Earth Story Earth Y8, 10, 11 Y8, 10, 11 Trying to understand the history of Earth, but can’t get your head around geological time and what 4.54 billion years actually means? You need to watch Earth story! This documentary tells the story of planet Earth – from day one, the big bang to the earthquakes and volcanoes of today. Includes some really good explanations of the structure of Earth and plate tectonics. The complete story of planet Earth…4.54 billion years in one documentary! £6.97 £16.97 This documentary tells the story of planet Earth – from day one, the big bang to the earthquakes and volcanoes of today. Includes some really good explanations of the structure of Earth and plate tectonics. Ross Kemp in search of Pirates Y9 Arrgh, there be pirates!! Not the swash-buckling, parrot on their shoulder, Johnny Depp type pirates of the Caribbean though!! Today’s pirates are armed with heavy weapons and pose a real threat to cargo ships from around the world. The Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden are the modern day heartlands of piracy and Ross Kemp takes to the seas to chase them in this documentary. £5.29
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