Recherche détaillée

The history and development of St Andrews University, Scotland, on the occasion of its 600th anniversary, and the story of how its graduates have shaped the modern world.

The film is a kaleidoscopic trip through the intertwined histories of pandemics, riots, and colonial violence. An archive constantly haunted by its possible collapse.

A British-Cavadian team of scientists, including BBC presenter Chris Packham, arrives at Greenland's western coast to study the country's largest glacier and the icebergs it gives birth to, a spectacular process, yet never extensively studied. A former explosives expert takes the lead in most physically dangerous operations, as to plant scientific recording equipment at perilously unstable and inaccessible spots. Combined with observations from a boat on and dangerously close to the surrounding sea, they find the part played by melting water forming lakes on the glacier top, canals to the rock underground and maritime circulation.

The British-Canadian scientists party boards a ship to follow a mega iceberg broken off from a Greenland glacier. It lives two years, so who so long and what gets to it eventually? Spectacular but also precarious is the surprisingly numerous population of polar pears who swim to it and stay on the iceberg quite a while during the absence of continuous ice on Artcic land.

Professor Alice Roberts tells the story of Stewart Britain by studying the history of Stirling, Britain's Most Stewart Town. To understand the Scottish royals who would take the English crown and create a British monarchy, Alice helps archaeologists who have uncovered the docks that once housed Europe's largest warship, tours the city walls built to keep out Henry VIII and has a kick about with a football that belonged to Mary Queen of Scots.