WWE Hall-of-Fame announcer Jim Ross narrates "Mid-Atlantic Memories" -- a collection of stories about wrestling down south in the 60s, 70s and 80s, as told by wrestlers, promoters, and fans -- the folks that lived it, and the folks that LOVED IT! Features Ole Anderson, Jim Cornette, Ricky…
Unscrupulous investors, speculating on the disappearance of rare animals, and increased demand for animal products from Asia are pushing endangered animals into extinction. Worldwide, the illegal trade in endangered animals is booming. No longer just the work of individuals or small gangs, it is now…
Sexual abuse of children by women is still a social taboo. The idea contradicts all the usual clichés. Women are primarily the victims of sexual violence and not the perpetrators. But experts estimate that women commit 15-20% of sexual abuse. Usually it is mothers who abuse their own children.…
The lives of rural women in a developing country. Cape Verde is a dry country, a group of islands off the West African coast. Most of the men emigrate for work, leaving the women and children in the village. We enter the world of the women as they work in the fields, carry water and bring up their…
The daily lives of the Panare Indians of Venezuela. The daily lives of the Panare Indians, a primitive tribe inhabiting the jungle of Venezuela. Discusses how long their society could remain untouched by the influence of the civilisation which they try to reject. Granada Television.
Religion in the lives of Quadri Dervishes. The village of Baiveh in Iran is the home of the leader of a group of Kurds who belong to the Quadiri Dervishes, a mystical cult of Islam. The programme examines the part which religion plays in their daily lives and shows the Zikr, the ceremony where the…
Exploitation of the Embera Colombian Indians. The fate of the Embera Colombian Indians, who are being exploited by black and white traders and driven from their territory by the advance of "civilisation". Part of anthropological documentary series 'Disappearing World' DVD 1971 50…
Gay Pride week in 1979. The homosexual, or gay, movement has become increasingly prominent in Britain and around the world. In June 1979 Gay Pride Week celebrated a decade of the movement, culminating in a rock concert in London's Hyde Park. "World in Action" talked to members of the…
A record of the unity and community of black struggle in Britain. About the black community in Ladbroke Grove and Notting Hill which grew up in the 1950s. “No Irish, no coloured, no dogs" read the rooms-to-let signs in what was already a decaying inner area of London. In the Grove black…
For thousands of years, they lay dormant in the soil until suddenly, they became the driving force behind a technical revolution. Smart phones, laptops, touch screens, wind turbines, hybrid vehicles: they all need rare earths. Among the first to recognise this were the Chinese. Today China mines an…
A film made on the eve of the 1981 Irish hunger strike which was the culmination of a five-year protest during "the Troubles" by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special Category Status for…
In Minqin County of China's Gansu Province, ecorefugees like the HE family want to remain on their ancestral homeland, but the vast and relentless desert, spanning thousands of miles, creating sandstorms, swallowing up everything in its path, is turning most of Gansu Province into an uninhabitable…
