A character from the big city, going inland to northeastern Brazil. He discovered a people that lives with music, sounds and silence. A journey through a part of the sound universe of North-East Brazil called "Sertão" seen by some characters from another time. This film has been made…
Leeds deals with habitual drunkenness. The problem of habitual drunkenness, and how it is dealt with in Leeds, where there is a detoxification unit. People picked up by the police are taken here instead of being locked up, and there is some hope of recovery. Now the government is withdrawing funding…
From a Series of seven 55 minute programmes which provide a definitive study of how we have come in the 1980's to the brink of man-made cataclysm. For five thousand years warfare has been an instrinsic, even indispensible part of style of living which we call civilisation. Up to only two years ago,…
Cycling from Germany to Vietnam - with no prior training!? That’s exactly what Otti and Keule set out to do. They travel across the Balkans, to the Black Sea, through Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and China. A journey of 10 months - on an often bumpy road. They struggle with deserts and mountains,…
In four chapters, director Zanbo Zhang documents the abuses surrounding the construction of a giant highway through Hunan province from the perspective of the local population, the construction company and the laborers. In 2008, the Chinese government decided to invest $586 billion on infrastructure…
Robert Hicks was born during an air raid in 1940’s Birmingham, England. His childhood was marked by parental neglect and abuse, his body afflicted with Ankylglossia (commonly known as being tongue-tied), and his mind challenged by dyslexia. With a start like that, one might assume that Robert was…
Lithuanians were part of the approximately 13 million immigrants coming to the United States from Eastern Europe in the early 1900s. Many were mistakenly labeled as Russian or Polish at Ellis Island but once in America, they proudly identified as Lithuanian and worked adamantly to preserve their culture,…
In 1969, Spanish dictator Francisco Franco closed the entrance to the British territory of Gibraltar, isolating 30,000 people without food, water, or telephone lines. In his words, “The Rock will fall like ripe fruit.” La Roca is an epic Romeo & Juliet-type love story between the massive…
The Rocking Sky commemorates and celebrates the heroic pilots that fought bravely against the Japanese colonial regime in World Word II. The Republic of China was the first to fall victim to WWII. The war with Japan broke out before the UK, the US and other countries were engaged in the great war that…
The Rock of Truth reveals the extraordinary story of a man who, in his younger days, was an active militant communist, a trolley bus-conductor, a fundamentalist religious zealot who sought to kill a pope, and a modern day persecutor of the Catholic Church, who then had a miraculous conversion, at a place…
The beating of Rodney King by four LAPD officers was a defining moment of the nineties. It caused one of the worst race riots in American history and led to a national debate about police brutality, the fairness of the justice system, and the state of racism in America. Narrated by Robert Prosky.
Hundreds of villages burned. Mass rapes and large-scale massacres. 700,000 Rohingya people forced into exile. At first sight, this surge of hate seemed to come from nowhere. But emptying a territory of its population in a few weeks requires a minimum of organisation and anticipation. It is a pre-meditated…
