IWF Knowledge and Media GmbH
Based in Germany, the IWF is one of the leading science film institutes in the world. It has been working since the late 1940s on behalf of academic researchers to create audio-visual recordings of physical phenomena in nature and technology, the biological sciences, and ethnographic customs and processes in culture and society. Please note that the soundtrack of a small number of films in the collection is in German.
The IWF collection is of interest to students of biomedical science and life sciences, zoology, botany, anthropology, chemistry, environmental science, genetics, oceanography, chemistry, physics, physical sciences, mathematics, ethnography and geology.
Michael Niehaus has written an introduction to the IWF collection for Media Online Focus (PDF file, 460 kb)
For more information on the IWF collection please visit the IWF web site.
Written and compiled by the British Universities Film & Video Council © BUFVC 2005
Films from this collection can be included in learning and teaching objects deposited in Jorum, the UK national repository for learning and teaching objects. This permission does not apply to any other collections in the Film & Sound Online service
