Musiques rebelles Americas nous conduit au coeur de l’autre Amérique (Colombie, Argentine, Mexique, Brésil), celle du sud, populaire et révoltée, par les rythmes et les paroles de quatre groupes d’artistes engagés dans les causes qui animent leurs sociétés:…
The Sami people of Northern Scandinavia fight for survival. About the Sami people of Northern Scandinavia. The Sami are also known as the Lapps and number about 50,000 living in Samiland, and area crossing the current borders of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola peninsula in the USSR. The film…
The adventurer desired to capture the life and customs of the smallest people on Earth, to find the undisturbed civilization of Pygmies. His search begins in the Central African Republic, where the local natives take him across the borders of war-torn Congo. During his adventurous trip, he is threatened…
THE ONLY REAL GAME is a fighters’ and dreamers’ story about the magic of baseball for people in a remote and troubled place. Once princely Manipur, a strife-torn border state in northeast India, defies civil war, drugs, gun traffic, and HIV/AIDS through love of our national pastime. Dreams…
A study of the Soviet educational system in 1973. A brief but comprehensive look at almost the entire Soviet education system as it was in 1973, in a typical town. Voronesh is the size of Manchester, and we are shown round schools and the universities; also the interweaving of the of the schools,…
Concern about the increasing military presence in schools and public life Step by step, and unseen, an increasing military presence is entering schools and public life across Britain. Even as the government has cut Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), Disabled Students Allowance (DSA) and mental…
The lives of rural women in a developing country. Cape Verde is a dry country, a group of islands off the West African coast. Most of the men emigrate for work, leaving the women and children in the village. We enter the world of the women as they work in the fields, carry water and bring up their…
Religion in the lives of Quadri Dervishes. The village of Baiveh in Iran is the home of the leader of a group of Kurds who belong to the Quadiri Dervishes, a mystical cult of Islam. The programme examines the part which religion plays in their daily lives and shows the Zikr, the ceremony where the…
As seen on public television in the USA. In recent years climate science has come under increasing attack, so concerned geologist Simon Lamb grabbed his camera and set out to explore the inside story of climate research. For over three years he followed scientists from a wide range of disciplines at…
Unscrupulous investors, speculating on the disappearance of rare animals, and increased demand for animal products from Asia are pushing endangered animals into extinction. Worldwide, the illegal trade in endangered animals is booming. No longer just the work of individuals or small gangs, it is now…
In Minqin County of China's Gansu Province, ecorefugees like the HE family want to remain on their ancestral homeland, but the vast and relentless desert, spanning thousands of miles, creating sandstorms, swallowing up everything in its path, is turning most of Gansu Province into an uninhabitable…
The first session at Getting Clear features Jon Atack, one of the famous writers on Scientology and a former member. Jon gives glimpses of his own life story while tracing the biography and claims of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. The film provides Jon's lecture along with images…
