How older people can take the initiative in controlling many aspects of their own health. This film shows ways in which older people can take the initiative in controlling many aspects their own health. The importance of maintaining mobility and social contact is emphasised, as weII as the benefit…
Discussion starter on teenage drinking; reasons and facts. Teenagers are drinking twice as much as they did a decade ago. And starting younger. In this discussion starter made by Quaker Action on Alcohol and Drugs, young people talk about their drinking; boredom is mentioned among other reasons. National…
On March 23, 1984, a young British civil servant was sentenced to six months in prison for disclosing secret documents to a daily newspaper. She maintained that revealing the documents, which dealt with the arrival of cruise missiles into the UK, was in the public interest. The film includes interviews…
Peter Russell’s views on the global crisis and hope for the future. A film by Peter Russell, who made 'The Global Brain', and based on his book. Using hundreds of images that span the breadth of creation, he weaves physics, psychology, philosophy and the personal wisdom of the ages…
How a toy library works. Looks at what a toy library is, why toy libraries are needed, where they are located, and what benefits they can have for parents as well as the children. Also shows how to get help in setting up your own toy library, and the work of the Glasgow Toy Library Association, for…
The ways we use animals in laboratories and factory farms are discussed. A moving short film which looks at the ways we use animals and explains why we have to improve our treatment of and attitudes towards them. The film is not a simple catalogue of the inhumanity of vivisection laboratories and…
This powerful and disturbing documentary covers the outcry approaching the release of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, the two 10 year old boys who notoriouskly killed 2 year-old James Bulger in 1993, one of the UK's most famous crimes. Re-telling the tragedy, the film presents the protests…
Allan's life is colorful. He likes cinema, cars and sports. He is keen of Kung Fu. He likes funny as well as dark side of the life. His life is colorful also because he lives with his mother, a former opera singer, and his stepfather, a psychiatrist and a former parliament member. He has a work,…
In the wake of a devastating personal tragedy, struggling would-be filmmaker Parker Smith decides to take a road-trip across America. Intending to make a "lo-fi" documentary about his journey he purchases a decade old camera off of eBay, and is surprised to discover that it holds a long forgotten…
Il est question d'une carrière de pierre qui change aussi brutalement que le monde qui nous entoure. Cette même pierre qui a servi à édifier l'église de la Trinité sert aujourd'hui à remblayer les autoroutes. Ce sont les "travailleurs…
This is the story of a tiny country that made a decision to do something that no other country had ever done -- it decided to abolish its army and declare peace to the world. And this is the story of a young boy who grew up in that country, and how he ended up challenging -- and sometimes even convincing…
Raven Awakens follows Sonoma bronze sculptor, Jim Callahan, through the whole process of creating a large bronze sculpture from inspiration to final result. Along the way we look closely at what makes up an artistic life.
