On the 1st August 1936, 100,000 spectators watched as Hitler and the Olympic delegates arrived at the Olympic opening ceremony in Berlin. The Olympic flags hung cheerfully side-by-side banners bearing the Nazi swastika. With the help of specialists and images from Léni Riefenstahl’s 1938…
A young man's life is wrecked by glue-sniffing. Tells of 20 year old Bryan's desperate fight against his addiction to glue sniffing which has wrecked his life and ended with him setting fire to his flat, leaving him homeless and destitute. We see him covered in glue, frothing at the mouth…
The second Part of this Double-Disk DVD programme which is filmed in the cab of one of Slovenian Railways’ Class 363 ‘Brigitte' series locomotives, so nicknamed after the French Actress, Brigitte Bardo, we journey from the Port of Koper up the steep grades to the country’s capital…
Interviews with people serving life sentences. Gives a remarkable insight into the men, women and young people who have been sentenced to life imprisonment. In Britain, in 1983, there were nearly 2,000 of them out of a prison population of 43,000 (more recently there are nearly 100,000). in a series…
Lord Justice Scott's inquiry into the arms-to-Iraq affair In 1996 the report of Lord Justice Scott's inquiry into the arms-to-Iraq affair was published. "The current legislation is appallingly outdated ... it allows export controls to be used for any purpose whatever the government…
Doctors interviewing older primary school children Shows community paediatricians interviewing older primary school children. Extracts of the interviews have been taken to introduce medical students and post graduate doctors to finer aspects of child and family interviewing. Examines the skllls of…
Jandamarra’s War is the story of an Aboriginal warrior who should be as famous as Ned Kelly. He led one of the most effective rebellions in the history of indigenous peoples' resistance to European colonisation. In the 1890’s European settlers arrive in the Kimberley, North West Australia,…
In Australia, during the era of the Stolen Generations, thousands of Aboriginal girls were taken from their families and pressed into domestic servitude by the Australian Government. Servant or Slave follows the lives of five such women, stolen from their families and trained to be domestic servants…
Alice, Kenton, Bucky, and Rachna are the hidden victims of the chemical industry. They all grew up in either India or in the US, in towns built around plastic and pesticide factories. For a long time, their resounding success has masked the darker reality behind their practices. For several decades,…
Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten followed a nice middle class family during three years, 2002 -2005. From the crisis that punished the middle class to the heartbreaking moment of emigration and a new beginning in Spain. Before, The Borroni family's future was bright: Oscar had it all: he managed…
Four brothers in a small village in Kosovo. They have lived through the war, but their heads are still full of old westerns. Modern American films were not allowed to be screened in Communist former Yugoslavia, but old westerns were repeated so often you knew them off by heart. And you could act them out.
Aged 21, Maria suffers a cerebral haemorrhage during a boxing match. She makes a miraculous recovery but her true fight begins when she wants to return to the ring. The Swedish Boxing Federation won’t let her fight because of the accident, her mother is reluctant to even hearing Maria talk about…
