Richard Dawkins: video programs

• The Blind Watchmaker
• The Evolution of Human Purpose
• Growing Up in the Universe
• Is Evolution Progressive and The Selfish Meme
• NATURE 125th Anniversary Symposium
• Nice Guys Finish First
• River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

produced by HORIZON
running time: 49 minutes

Produced in the mid 1980s by Jeremy Taylor and Richard Dawkins for BBC's HORIZON series. It was based on his book of the same name, and won the Sci-Tech Award for Best Science Documentary of the year.

Description from the BBC's education catalogue: "...The evidence proposed is well-organized and current. The video first presents creationist ideas, articulated by Texans who support the theory of special creationism, and then provides vivid contradictory data through observation, computer simulations, robotics, experiments and close examination of designs in nature. Its central argument is that the diversity and variety we see in such complex adaptations as the eye and insect mimicry can best be explained by cumulative natural selection over long periods of time. With its vivid blend of argument and scientific detail, The Blind Watchmaker will enrich even the most advanced student's view of evolution."

Canada, the U.S. and Latin America contact BBC Worldwide Americas:

Order from their BBC Educational Video Catalog for $59.95 - Intended mainly for educators, but anyone can order. Includes a teacher's guide with student exercises.

From the UK:

HORIZON will sell the program exclusively to schools and educators. Call HORIZON at +44(0)181 576 2541 and ask for Gerry Cruthley. They have none in stock; each tape is custom copied from the master. Price: £ 99.00

From Films for the Humanities & Sciences
"For more than 25 years, Films for the Humanities & Sciences has been providing educators with the finest in educational media."

The Evolution of Human Purpose
All other life forms except humans exist to propagate themselves and pass on their genes; humans alone work to other ends. In this lecture, Richard Dawkins distinguishes between the result of eons of natural selection which has resulted in, say, a bird’s tail, whose purpose is to enable the bird to fly—purpose with a survival value—and deliberate design, like an airplane’s tail. Dawkins shows the relationship between the two in explaining the evolution of human purpose. (26 minutes, color)

VHS Format. Purchase: $89.95

Part of the series The Evolution of Darwin
The series includes: The Origins of Darwin’s Theory, The Theory of Inheritance, The Evolution of Human Purpose, Darwin’s Theory Today, The Creationist Argument, The Evidence for Evolution

Entire Series: VHS Format. Purchase: $495.00

Prices include public performance rights. Available only in the United States and Canada

produced by HORIZON

Produced in the mid 1980s by Jeremy Taylor and Richard Dawkins for BBC's Horizon series. It was based mainly on the chapter of the same name in the Second Edition of The Selfish Gene.

Canada, the U.S. and Latin America?

I am writing to BBC Woldwide America to suggest that they offer this program --John Catalano

From the UK:

HORIZON will sell the program exclusively to schools and educators. Call HORIZON at +44(0)181 576 2541 and ask for Gerry Cruthley. They have none in stock; each tape is custom copied from the master. Price: £ 99.00

A VHS Tape of his 1995 Caltech lecture from The Skeptics Society. Order it from their Books and Tapes page, search for "AV36". $19.95 plus S&H

running time: 58 minutes each

This series of Richard Dawkins' Royal Institution lectures is about our own growing knowledge of how life grows up in the universe. Originally televised by the BBC in 1991-1992.

Video Review by Matthew Cockerill includes five online video clips in RealVideo and QuickTime format!   Published in HMS Beagle (Dec. 11, 1998 · Issue 44) Also listed there is a BioMedNet INCA Special Offer to purchase the tapes:

This five-video series can be purchased directly from the publisher by sending a check for $110 (non-UK orders) or £55 (UK orders) to the address below, specifying either the PAL (European) or NTSC (USA) version. Price includes postage and handling.

BioMedNet INCA Special Offer
INCA 32 Station Road
Barnes London SW13 0LW
UNITED KINGDOM

From the UK publisher INCA active: interactive media production. They are offering 6 renowned Royal Institution Christmas Lectures including Richard Dawkins' "Growing Up in the Universe". The programmes are available on video in sets of five. Please apply for details to the following address:

INCA LONDON LTD
32 Station Road
London SW13 0LW
UK

From Films for the Humanities & Sciences
"For more than 25 years, Films for the Humanities & Sciences has been providing educators with the finest in educational media."

Growing Up in the Universe
Children grow up: they become adults. Nonliving simplicity grows up: it evolves on a planet, by gradual degrees over thousands of generations, to become living complexity. At least one planetary life form, our own, has begun, almost within living memory, to achieve intelligent understanding of how it grew up—intelligent comprehension of its own history and place in the universe. This series of Royal Institution programs is about our own growing knowledge of how life grows up in the universe. 5-part series, 58 minutes each.

The series includes:
Waking Up in the Universe, Designed and Designoid Objects, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ultraviolet Garden, The Genesis of Purpose

Each part: VHS Format. Purchase: $149.00 / Rental: $75.00
Full 5-part series: VHS Format. Purchase: $649.00

Prices include public performance rights. Available only in the United States and Canada

"Is Evolution Progressive" was produced in the USA by:

Into the Classroom Media
10573 W.Pico Blvd. #162
Los Angeles, CA 90064
(800) 732-7946 (a.k.a. 800. 7-DARWIN)

Running Time: approx 50 minutes

Additional Material: An Teaching Guide booklet which includes:

• general notes for each section
• suggested discussion questions
• reprint of "The Evolution of Evolvability" by Richard Dawkins
• reprint of "'Higher' and 'Lower' animals: a diatribe" by Richard Dawkins

"The Selfish Meme" is a lecture Dawkins delivered at Stanford University. It was produced by Stanford University and is distributed exclusively through Into the Classroom Media.

Prices:

$275.00 for "Is Evolution Progressive". The second tape, "The Selfish Meme", is an additional $74.00, but is only available with the first tape. Purchase price reflects institutional public performance license (educators using the program with students).

An special offer from the producer: "An offer for your website only!! I would be willing to make the tapes available for $75.00 for "Is Evolution Progressive", and $25.00 for "The Selfish Meme" (only when purchased with the first tape) to private individuals who mail a written request, along with a statement that the video(s) are for private, home use only, and that they will not be used within a curriculum or for public performance. I hope this will help make the videos affordable for other enthusiasts who are not college faculty."

There will be a shipping and handling charge of $10.00 on all domestic orders.

Two videos featuring - among others - Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould.

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