Hummingbird is an emotionally moving, award-winning documentary looking at the work of two non profits started by women in Brazil. Helping to get kids off the street and women out of the vicious cycle of domestic violence, they base their life transforming work around the “pedagogy of affection”,…
Narrated by Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, this series objectively documents religions worldwide with interviews from experts. Explore issues that probe the very core of our existence and offer a deeper understanding of global spiritual beliefs.
Based out of his ramshackled farm in picturesque Cornwall, England, Dan Wilson is horse trainer, commonly referred to as a 'Horse Whisperer'. Using his remarkable techniques, Dan breaks in and trains horses where other trainers have tried and failed.
Joe Fugate’s Siskiyou Line is over two decades old, but for the past three years he hasn’t had the opportunity to do much work on it. With a National Model Railroad convention coming to town he has just a few days left to get it up and running for layout-tour guests to enjoy. What seemed…
Haiti is known to be the poorest country of the western hemisphere and is still struggling to get on its feet from a disastrous earthquake, but Haiti’s real problem is the complete degradation of its natural resources. Natural forests cover today less than two percent of its territory. Scientists…
Communication when bathing a child. During bathing the infant experiences reality through his or her relationship with the adult. They deal with it according to their own personality. The infant can be seen switching his or her attention from the surroundings towards the physical presence of the adult…
A drama documentary on the history of deaf education and culture, using sign language. A drama documentary on the history of deaf education and culture, using sign language. The first drama documentary made in sign language. Traces the history of deaf education and culture through the last 200 years.…
Postcards from the First World War hint at the inherent frailty of human attachments. Entirely composed of postcards sent to and from the front during the First World War, both picture and text. Skilfully directed by Dai Vaughan, it does not seek to evoke the physical reality of war so much as to…
Examines the strong feelings of bereaved people. What is grief ? How long does it last ? What does it feel like ? What happens when you're in it, and how do you know when it goes away ? What can people do to help someone who is experiencing grief ? Eric Stange made this video after his wife died…
True story of a young girl who overdosed fatally on heroin. The story of Rachel Whitear's life and her death from heroin has touched the lives of millions of people across the world, and this true story sparked one of the world's biggest ever anti-drug media campaigns. Told by Rachel's…
Amateur newsreel on the first non-violent civil disobedience action at a rocket base in Britain. Swaffham, Norfolk, December 1958: the first non-violent civil disobedience action at a rocket base in Britain now available on DVD. This was the only film record of this historic event, and payment for…
In an intimate conversation, the art historian and the artist discuss Segal's plaster sculptures in relation to the European tradition and to contemporaries, from Giotto to Abstract Expressionism.
