After every war someone has to tidy up. Things won’t pick\ themselves up, after all. Sweet Smoke of the Fatherland begins with these lines from the poem ‘The End and the Beginning’ by the Polish Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska. The documentary tells the story of three old…
Sampling is crucial in psychology but can be difficult to understand. This film offers a helping hand with a series of visual images that take students through target population, samples, representativeness and generalisability. It then looks at how sampling is done, illustrating differences between…
Two men from East Germany come together in a historic reconciliation; one was a dissident who was sent to prison, the other spied on him for the Stasi. Today, with access to secret Stasi files, the two men begin to revisit their painful past and reflect on their differing roles in the regime. What unfolds…
Correlations are relationships and this film begins by illustrating how the strength and direction of those relationships is measured. It then uses real research studies to illustrate the uses of correlations, their limitations and how easily correlation data can be misused.
True Dutch eyes is a film about the work of a Dutch photographer called Dana Lixenberg who’s living in New York. She’s specialised in portraits but calls herself a documentary photographer. Her work looks technically simple while the power of her work arises from the intimity with the people…
A film on the life, work, and philosophy of the great Japanese scholar, Toshihiko Izutsu, who started his career as a linguist. He then turned from linguistics to a theology, reaching excellence in the area of philosophy and theology. Izutsu’s work is well-known in the academic community, especially…
Some research questions can only really be studied by sociologists getting out of their offices and interacting directly with the people they want to study. Starting with the famous Chicago School of sociology, this film uses both contemporary (Ferrell) and classic (Patrick, Holdaway, Humphries,…
How do school students negotiate the pressures to perform well academically alongside the pressure to be popular and cool? Carolyn Jackson combined questionnaires and interviews to research this question and this film uses her study, Lads and Ladettes, to illustrate why these methods are chosen,…
This heart-wrenching short film about the effects of K2 addiction puts the viewer right on the streets of Dallas, Texas, where the drug is taking lives every day. K2 is a synthetic cannabinoid up to 100 times as potent as marijuana, the drug causes hallucinations, violent behavior, and leaves some comatose. 2018 6:16…
The Hard Ride is an intimate look at black cowboys as they gather for a rodeo and dance on the 40 acre Circle 6 Ranch in Raywood, Texas (between Houston and Beaumont). A dirt road leads onto the ranch, where all of the structures, including a frame house, rodeo arena, and barn, are hand-wrought. A.J.…
WINNER: Best Feature Documentary, HBO NY Latino International FF. WINNER: Best Documentary feature, DOCUDAYS Ukraine FF WINNER: Best feature Documentary, Boston Latino International FF Featured: POV/PBS season 31 (2018) Revealing stark realities for the poorest of rural Cubans with unique access…
This film uses the well-known case of 'Genie', a girl kept in solitary confinement from infancy until she was 13, to illustrate the use of case studies in psychology; why and how they are used, what they can offer researchers, their limitations and some of the ethical issues that can often arise.
