A film by Tom Haydon. With Dr Rhys Jones. The Tasmanians were a distinct people, isolated from Australia and the rest of the world for 12,000 years. In 1803, British colonisation began and in 1876, Truganini died. She was the last full-blood and tribal Tasmanian Aboriginal. Within her one lifetime,…
Management of acute post-operative pain. Discussion with the aid of animated diagrams of the physiology of post-operative pain followed by four case studies showing four different approaches to its control. Does not necessarily show current practice. Included for archival use.
Drugs and other ways of managing pain. We use huge numbers of painkillers administered in different ways. Drugs fall mainly into two types the programme describes their origins and actions. Other ways of dealing with pain, without drugs, for example massage, acupuncture and relaxation offer effective…
Traditional and new, the Asian community in Brent examine their values in an 'alien culture'. Young people from Muslim and Sikh families who play both traditional and rock music talk about the problems caused by the clash between cultural differences and how well, or not they overcome them.…
Amber founder member Murray Martin was active in harness racing. A documentary about a Co Durham horsey family became a film about him, when he died in 2007. Amber began to work on a documentary about the Coulsons, a family deeply involved in the horsey culture of harness racing and road racing. Sanchez…
An evocation of beach life in the North East of England, constructed almost entirely out of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's black & white photographs. The film evokes the magic of an urban family's day out on the windswept beaches of north East England. It is packed with action, invention and…
Executive produced by Wim Wenders, Our Last Tango tells the life and love story of Argentina’s most famous tango dancers Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes, who met as teenagers and danced together for nearly fifty years until a painful separation tore them apart. Relaying their story to a…
"A Hero for Daisy" is a 40 minute film about Title IX pioneer and two-time Olympian Chris Ernst, who galvanized her rowing team to storm the Yale athletic director’s office in 1976, protesting the lack of athletic facilities for women. Nineteen athletes stripped, exposing the phrase "Title…
The Apple Pushers, narrated by Edward Norton, and underwritten by the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, follows the inspiring stories of five immigrant pushcart vendors who are rolling fresh fruits and vegetables into poor neighborhoods of New York- neighborhoods where finding a ripe, red apple is a…
TEN9EIGHT, by award-winning filmmaker, Mary Mazzio, chronicles the stories of several inner city students (from Harlem to Compton and all points in between) as they compete in a nationwide business plan competition. What they learn in the process of becoming entrepreneurs indelibly changes their lives…
Tens of thousands of Japanese women entered the United States as “war brides” between the end of World War II and the late 1950s – the largest migration of Asian women this country had ever seen. A brief media fanfare followed, portraying them as model housewives, in print and on the…
James Dean and Marilyn Monroe - Two of the biggest names in Film and Popular Culture History Are Showcased on this Fantastic Doc. Featuring their lives and work, • A very special multi-media extravaganza themed around the original American idol, James Dean! • Features a documentary…
