Reveals the tricks of public speaking to capture applause. A young working class SDP member is trained to give a speech at the party conference, and her speech is written for her by a professional speech writer. She has special training in voice production, and her message, that the party is too middle…
Documentary about a family with many children; sequel to classic film The Things I cannot Change. A sequel to the 1966 documentary film The Things I Cannot Change, which showed a week in the lives of a poor Canadian family with a large number of children. This film explores what has happened to this…
Portrait of racial harassment in Hackney. 'Evidence? Their fear is the evidence..." This powerful portrait of racial harassment in the London Borough of Hackney is built around interviews with black people who have suffered abuse, graffiti, threats and violence from fellow council tenants…
21 short sequences of potentially violent situations based on real incidents act as triggers. A series of twenty-one short sequences of potentially violent situations based on real incidents shot from the point of view of staff coming on to the scene. Designed to act as triggers to role play and/or…
The Xylouris Family is Greece’s most famous musical clan. Three generations of musicians uphold and pass on the vibrant tradition of Cretan music, performing ceaselessly to followers across the world, from a very young age. From 80 year old Psarantonis, credited with reinventing Cretan music, to…
Families of the World takes you on fantastic journeys to other countries where you view the unique lives of children and their families. Each DVD focuses on a different culture as seen in the way of life, foods, homes, schools, communities, and fun-filled activities of two families from breakfast to…
In the immediate aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake that struck Haiti, Tim Scott and Will Decker of Travel the Road, enter the capital of Port-Au-Prince to find a city in chaos. Their mission, to find hope amidst this tragedy, brings them to the downtown district where they witness the miraculous…
Evel. Not a name that you forget. Not a man that you forget. Hell, he wasn't a man, he was a daredevil. Evel was the original daredevil. He left behind a twisted wreck of a life and a story that can only be told at full speed, straight up, and with no flowery prose. We will look back, and we will…
There was a time when every boy had dreams of building a model railroad empire. For many, that interest turned into a life-long hobby. TrainMasters TV visited the exhibition "TINXTEN: A Century of Tinplate Trains” at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum to see antique tinplate trains and…
We Will Win Peace goes behind the scenes of humanitarian advocacy and activism in the United States – via the forests and mines of the eastern Congo - to reveal the limits of good intentions, in an unexpected story that follows the lives of two Congolese miners as they react to the competing pressures…
Who hasn’t thought about being a pirate? Follow the journey of Captain Zack Stevers and Daniel the Turtle from the award winning animated series. See how their pirate journey reached the screen in Supa Pirate Booty Hunt: The Making of an Animated Series. Creators Steve Sievers and Dahveed Kolodny-Nagy…
The October revolution in Russia The tumultuous moments precipitating the October Revolution, and Russia’s involvement in World War I and World War II. The fifth part of a six part series 'Peter Ustinov's Russia', a series in which Peter Ustinov evokes the colourful, often tumultuous…
