Archive footage of America invading Japan, and the lives of some of the bomb victims. The Hiroshima Nagasaki publishing committee organised an appeal in Japan whereby ordinary people each paid for a few feet of film, raising thousands of pounds, in order to purchase archive film shot by the invading…
Bangladeshi Muslims living in Spitalfields, working in the textile industry. Bangladeshi Muslims living in Spitalfields, working in the textile industry. The local work is mainly in the textile industry, poorly paid. The people feel trapped by both their poverty and their colour. Immigration laws…
The morality if tax evasion Examines the morality of tax avoidance and evasion. How many people avoid paying their fair share of income tax? How do they do it? How many self-employed tradesmen - and "moonlighters" - demand to be paid in cash to escape tax? Should customers co-operate? To…
The human implications of the nuclear arms race. Jonathan Dimbleby's searching analysis of the human implications of the escalating nuclear arms race. The film moves from the "Hibakusha" (survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) in Japan to the computerised weapons systems of the US military,…
Film stars Julie Christie and Julie Walters examine biases in the media in the UK with examples. Explodes the myth that we in this country are all equally well served by our broadcasting services. It argues that the media favours the white male, middle class establishment and that those who do not…
Inhabitants of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean were evicted for a military base, and got no adequate compensation. The Island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean belongs to Britain, and when the British Government decided to lease it to the United States as a military base in 1971, the islanders…
Story of a friendship between young people and communication difficulties. Raises questions associated with communication problems in a girl meets boy story that occurs under unusual circumstances. A young woman witnesses an accident at a railway station; a young man falls and is knocked unconscious.…
A record of the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. A gripping comprehensive report, compiled from newsreel material and other film by Czechoslovak film-makers in exile, of the invasion of their country by Warsaw Pact countries in August 1968. An intensely moving film. DVD 1969 55 Minutes
Artist David Choe has led a life of high risk, from hedonistic excesses to being imprisoned at a maximum security facility in a foreign country, and yet has been dramatically rewarded for his exploits. Life didn’t change much when he traded a $60k fee in favor of stock in a start-up called…
Music elates, touches the soul and bypasses reason. Music is magic. But precisely this magic can turn it into an insidious weapon – for music and violence belong together. The brutal power of African war dances, the ferocity of Maori Hakas, the earth-shattering roar of US sound guns blasting Metallica…
The building of the US National Whitewater Center in N.C.
Marylynn Poucachiche and Norman Matchewan faced tear gas and police batons when they joined their parents on the barricades to defend their traditional territory in the 1980s. Little did they realize they would sl be on the barricades over 20 years later, this time with their own young children at their…
