Unorthodox Education

Educational Docudrama: Two caterpillars struggle to survive the first four weeks of their lives.

This documentary film asks whether a citizens' experiment, the CSA (Community-supported Agriculture), developing new partnership models between consumers and farmers, has the power to change society.

Three school children visit a dusty library to research the story of 'The Dark Ages'. What they find changes their world view dramatically as ingenious inventors and pioneers of science and culture from the Muslim civilization are vividly brought to life.

A short film made by the Central Office of Information about how to cook Potatoes, with narration from Max Munden.

An in-depth look into the isolated sport of Motocross in the much more isolated island of Bermuda.

A young David Jason tries and fails to master sales calls.

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

A retired Major's efforts to hone his golf skills are thwarted by the diminutive but defiant common daisy.

This 90-minute documentary brings to life Gavin Pretor-Pinney’s international bestseller, “The Cloudspotter’s Guide”, which draws on science, meteorology and mythology for a magical journey through the world of clouds. It is no dry treatise on the science of nephology but a playful trip through the varied beauty and distinctive personalities of the ten principal cloud types From the ethereal cirrus to the terrifying cumulonimbus, the film tells the story of the short but eventful life of clouds and their importance to our planet. Find out how immense quantities of water can stay up in the sky for so long and how lightning and thunder are created.

The dangers of LSD are driven home to teenagers in this classroom training film, which is "narrated" by an LSD tab. The "tab" tells kids that he is "a depth charge in the mind!" and various teenagers are shwn babbling about their LSD experiences. "Experts" are presented who warn that LSD makes kids "paint themselves green" and has various other horrible side effects, the most serious of which is that it gives users a police record, and that there is "no known way of getting your fingerprints out of a police file once they're in there."

Developments in the Canadian forestry industry during the 1970s are shown being carried out both as lab experiments and in the field to protect and conserve the country's vast forests. These include turning a Newfoundland bog into woodland, fostering British Columbia seedlings that withstand mechanical planting, inoculating Ontario elms against the bark beetle, devising ways of controlling fire, and more.

Healthcaring is a short documentary that focuses on the historical and contemporary abuses women have suffered at the hands of mostly male practitioners, and depicts solutions women find to lack of access to comprehensive health care in the 1970s.

“Use Your Eyes” is a police training film produced by the Alhambra Police Department, California, in 1970. It is intended to demonstrate to police officers how to search a residence for evidence of marijuana use, and what rights they have to search the property once certain prima facia evidence is established.

It's time for muck spreading on the farm using all the muck that Farmer Tom has cleared from the cow's barn.

The forage harvester cuts the tall grass and then the brilliant baler squashes it into big bales.

Clever machines are needed in the potato field and Cheeky Midge gets a closer look.

The combine harvester harvests sunflowers and the children make sunflower seed balls for the birds.

Lots of tractors help the forage harvester to harvest the maize and Farmer Tom puts it into a huge pile.

An apple harvester collects up apples that are given a good wash and the children make apple juice.

Once you're old enough to make decisions for yourself, how exactly do you go about doing it? How can you really know which choice is best for you?