A short overview of Sight Savers' work, highlighting the vital role of supporters in making programmes possible. Narrated by Saw Lawley. Suitable for secondary schools/education and adult audiences.
Zurich 2001 is a real ‘time capsule’ – taking you back to an era when Swissair was still one of the world’s major airlines. Highlights include: Swissair, Thai and JAL MD11s, Finnair, Avioimpex, Nouvelair, SAS and Crossair MD80s, Malev and Austrian F70s, Thai, SAA, Singapore…
Explains how the Mental Health Act of 1983 affects patients, and the questions "why am I here?", "How long will I be here?" and "What will happen to me in Hospital" are discussed with Dr Peter Maddocks, a Consultant Psychiatrist, and an Approved Social Worker, and there…
The first clause of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity". This means that everyone has the rights to the basic necessities of life which allow them to fulfill their potential as human beings. Concern for human rights goes beyond…
In Guinea Bissau, a former Portuguese colony, not enough rice is being produced to meet the people's needs so 30% of the rice consumed has to be imported. This causes the country to become more and more in debt. The government's plans for self-sufficiency are met with suspicion, because of…
Westminster Active Pensioners is a pressure group started in 1980, which campaigns for the rights of old people in that part of London. They realise that in spite of increases in the old age pension, they real value has dropped, and with the cuts in social services many people are suffering. So they…
Fourty people live in this purpose-built house in Northern Ireland. The residents are encouraged to be responsible for themselves and their own lives as much as possible. The subjects of pensions, pets, medication, contact with the community and loss, death and grief are considered, and there is Residents'…
At 82 years old, Jack Lowe attempts an extraordinary challenge: cycling 11 classic Tour de France cols in 7 days, finishing on the iconic Alpe d’Huez. Joined by marathoner Jiggs Barasara (50 years), who faces the Alps for the first time, their journey becomes a powerful story of resilience, courage,…
"Do humans have the right to nature? In this tender film, Director Charlotte Sawyer tells a story of a community of wild swimmers in Bristol (UK) affected by raw sewage pollution of the river Avon. England is one of the only two countries in the world to have a fully privatised water and sewage…
Every year in Italy, around 100 people are caught in avalanches while in the high mountains. In 2014, filmmaker Dario Tubaldo from Lombardy was swept away by an avalanche while shooting a documentary on snowboard mountaineering, miraculously escaping unharmed. Ten years later, Return to the Breithorn…
Mary Schäffer Warren (1861-1939) was 43 years old and recently widowed when she bucked Victorian-era conventions and reinvented herself as a mountain explorer, writer, and photographer. Over a century later, Meghan J. Ward — an outdoor writer, historian and Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical…
In Chamonix, birthplace of mountaineering triumphs and tragedies, two young alpinists, Lucien and Guillaume, set out to achieve the unprecedented: linking in a single push the seven sacred Virgin statues that crown the Mont-Blanc massif. Their journey soon becomes more than a climbing challenge. Forgotten…
