The finest minerals in the world show up for Europe's oldest mineral show - The Munich Show in October.
How do young Chinese living in Québec feel about themselves, their community and their place here? What do they know about the history of Sino-Québec? These are some of the issues explored by this film, which follows two young Quebeckers of Chinese origins, Bethany Or and Parker Mah on…
Comment les jeunes chinois vivant au Québec se sentent-ils par rapport à eux-mêmes, à leur communauté et à leur rôle ici? Que savent-ils de l’histoire du Sino-Québec? Ce sont des thématiques qu’explorera notre documentaire Être…
Will our attitude to work as good in itself change with unemployment? Examines the conflict between the idea of work being necessary and good in itself, bestowing worth and dignity on the individual, and a society where work is scarce. Gives a historical perspective of the beginnings of the work ethic,…
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
