Dr Lesley Southgate talks to three people about disability, it's effect on their lives, and other people's attitudes. Jenny Fielder's baby daughter was badly burnt, leaving her face scarred, Bill Foxley was also burnt, especially his face and hands, and Sam Gallop lost both feet and lower…
The story of one unemployed 19-year-old girl in Sydney's western suburbs and her search for a job. Julie left school just before turning 15, and is unskilled. Since leaving school she has had a number of jobs - check operator, shop assistant, office worker, snack bar attendant and usherette - but…
Looks at meditation and the personal experience of four people. Dr. Sarah Eagger, a medical doctor and psychiatric registrar in London who finds meditation helps her in her job and her attitude to her patients in a practical way: Mark Hooper, musician and music teacher, a vegetarian who finds a link…
Drought, desert, famine. Half the world's population must daily take a thirsty journey in search of water for survival, a search made even more difficult because the water they do find will almost certainly be contaminated. And where scarcity and contamination compound the water problem, so too…
This lively film looks at the views and experiences of young people on the Youth Training Scheme, and at the possibilities of developing trade union education and organisation within the schemes. The material is divided into six main sections, linked by a light-hearded drama sequence featiring Kath and…
Bob Holness, star of ITV's popular quiz programme 'Blockbusters' takes a look at James Parkinson' life, the man who gave the name to Parkinson's disease and also looks into the health facilities for people with Parkinson's disease.
ATOMIC BAMBOOZLE, a 46 minute documentary that follows anti-nuclear activists, tribal leaders, scientists and attorneys as they draw lessons from the decades-long campaign to shut down the Trojan Nuclear Power plant in Oregon and extend those lessons into a new struggle to stop small modular reactors…
After a lengthy struggle and many voices in favor and against- Stands a wedding canopy in a synagogue in Sydney. Beneath it stand a 72-year-old couple. This is a historic moment, spectacular event - the celebration of the first same-sex marriage in a religious institution after the enactment of the Marriage…
Paris, juillet 1991 . Une conversation de bistrot entre le crotique francais de cinema Serge Daney et l'historien palestinien Elias Sanbar . Et sur la table, quelques photographies ... Festival de Rotterdam Etats Gebetaux du Documentaire, Lussas Cinémathèque Française
Ancient Sea Peoples of the North Atlantic is a chronicle of archeological discovery covering nearly a half century of research that has brought to light a new chapter in Native American history. It's the story of how scientists and tribal preservationists have slowly collected the evidence for an…
Katherine tells us about her experience in the Monolitos de Suesca, a place in the Andes Mountains in Colombia, and how this experience helped her feel like a new, lighter, freer woman. “The day I reached that rock high in the Andes, the sky had broken into a thousand raindrops. The wind was…
Terima kasih atas dukungan Anda kepada yayasan Mentawai (c) Joo Peter Penduduk asli terakhir kepulauan Sumatera: sebuah budaya di ambang kepunahan – dengan perkembangan geopolitik terbaru, perusakan habitat mereka mencapai situasi yang mustahil kembali. Film ini menggambarkan budaya asli, sejarah,…
