A fascinating film showing how she was selected at an early age, trained intensively to reach international standards. She talks about her relationship with her trainer and the successes and pitfalls in her life. Many of her spectacular performances are shown. Olga Valentinovna Korbut…
A film about young lesbians aged 16 - 23 from Newcastle, Liverpool and London in which they talk confidently for themselves about being lesbians in society with a dominant heterosexual bias. This film was made over a two-year peropd by taping interivews with the people involved, then working together…
Examines the traditional image of women as portrayed in the world's visual media and looks at the part of women play in determining that image. Young Indian women technicians challenge the male dominated film industry; many women work at Egyptian broadcasting, with little effect on potrayal of women…
Domestic violence occurs in all walks of life. Women are not only abused badly but some are beaten to death. This film looks at indivual cases of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, and explores the feelings of both victims and abusers and the help available to a family in crisis provided by shelters,…
What problems and prejudices does a girl face when she decides that she wants to do a job which in the past has only been done by men? This spirited film should start up a good discussion in most groups. The imagery and film quality may not be to modern standards but is useful for historical use.
Made in the late 1990s, this film shows to what extent the collecting of facts about our lifestyles and consumer habits were already being collected by supermarkets and other retailers. The film paints a rather alarmist picture of a future in which chips are embedded in us giving extra capabilitiies…
This first ever attempt to create a true 'peoples' government was made in Paris in the spring of 1871: The Paris Commune. Women were crucially involved in bringing it about, running it and in fighting - 'heroically' - in its final, desperate defence. "That little Flame"…
The 1960 U-2 incident, told through the story of spies on different sides of the Iron Curtain, one of whom is the CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers. This tells the story of an American pilot who was shot down in a U-2 spy plane over Soviet Union and a Norwegian fisherman, Selmer Nilsen, who used a carnival…
An Hand von Beispielen von Atlantik, Nord- und Ostsee, Mittelmeer und Schwarzes Meer werden die Gemeinsamkeit aller Meere und die spezifischen Unterschiede der Europäischen Meere beschrieben. Eindrucksvolle Naturaufnahmen verbunden mit erklärenden Graphiken und Animationen präsentieren…
Documentary made by Peter Davis and Staffan Lamm about daily life at a British public school that questions the privilege of a public school education from the pupils' perspective. Filmed at Hurstpierpoint Public School, West Sussex.
David Suzuki – award-winning geneticist, television host, best-selling author, celebrated lecturer and environmentalist – has one of the most famous faces in Canada. The film captures a variety of important and relevant issues.
New York, Corning Museum of Glass; Eric Goldschmidt admires the collection of masterpieces realized over 4000 years ago by using lampworking technique. He wonders about the evolution its evolution and about the developments that brought lampworkers to be part of the most prestigious exhibitions of their…
