For over 40 years Ashur Shamis was a member of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood and Colonel Gadaffi’s enemy number one in exile with a $1m bounty on his head. His dream of a ‘free’ Libya almost cost him his life and his family. When the 2011 revolution rid the country of their dictator,…
'When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened our eyes, they had the land and we had the Bible'. Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first elected Prime Minister and President In The Colonial…
The story of Homer G. Phillips Hospital which provided state-of-the-art medical training to over two-thirds of all African-American physicians and nurses from 1937 to 1979. While its founder was mysteriously killed, the hospital in his name thrived during the most turbulent of segregated times, allowing…
The Palestinian Amer family lives surrounded by the West Bank Wall. Through a sensitive lens, we discover the private world of all eight members of the family, whose lives are dominated by electrified fences, locks and Israeli soldiers.
A documentary about the imprisonment and eventual release of a family of political prisoners in Argentina. In 1975 Juan Carlos Rodrigues and his pregnant wife Marisa were arrested and like thousands of other political prisoners, suffered severe physical and psychological abuse. For a year they had absolutely…
A film by Jacqueline Caux This film was inspired by the itinerary of a ‘gap-bridger’: Daniel Caux, a musicologist, essayist and radio producer, who made endless discoveries in the fields of experimental, minimalist, repetitive, postmodern and techno music. His contribution is all the more…
Brad is a double threat. One of the most talented magicians in the country, he is also a very gifted and funny stand-up comedian.
When a fire destroys Cobb's Comedy Club in San Francisco, defiant owner Tom Sawyer and his crew of comedians rebuild it, hoping to revive the struggling local comedy scene. As a breeding ground for young comedians, Cobb's could not be equaled. Jim Carrey, Dana Carvey, Paula Poundstone, Bob…
The writing and drawing of comic books has remained a little-known and under-rated area of New Zealand culture. Director Shirley Horrocks reveals it to us as a highly creative subculture with a rich local history. Despite a moral panic about comics in the ‘40s and ‘50s (recalled here by Eric…
The Comic Strip Hits 100 is a marvellous celebration of the art of the comic strip. Narrated by the American novelist Jerome Charyn, and featuring rare interviews with some of the masters of the art form including Moebius, Schuiten and Franck Pé, The Comic Strip Hits 100 traces the evolution of…
Whilst at home he rallies against Islamic extremists, Donald Trump is forging unholy business alliances with controversial political figures in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country. Four Corners reveals how Donald Trump, as he was closing in on his political rivals, was negotiating luxury…
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