A record of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, and the philosophy behind it. Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson spent seven months filming at the women's peace camp. The film covers the main actions during this period from December, 1982 to June 1983. It also covers more private action…
Animated film focusing on relationship problems faced by prisoners on release. When you are married, or living together, and one of you goes into prison, your relationship is going to change. This animated film by Leeds Animation Workshop looks at the problems faced by prisoners and their partners,…
Millionaire Mary-Anne Kenworthy is a woman of many titles: Mother, Rotarian, Entrepreneur and Brothel Madam. However she is mostly known for owning two of the largest illegal brothels in Western Australia. After a three-year stint as a prostitute, Mary-Anne aged 28 bought her first house of ill fame…
Easter Island Rises was the directorial debut of veteran documentarian Bill Benenson, shot in 1970 with the support of The International Monuments fund. The film focuses on the shipment of one these famous Moai statues to The United States, where it went on display at Seagram’s Plaza in New York…
The Marginal Way, once an old Native American trail, is now a famous south coastal Maine attraction. Like the trail, the film roams through the Ogunquit Village, following the artists, fishermen, hippies, hermits, and the pensioners who call this place home. This is a film by Benenson Productions.…
This intimate portrait of a tight-knit group of wisecracking octogenarians features Fireball Abe, Punch Shot Al, and Shmatta Dave, all of whom literally live for handball. They play hard, recall their childhood games played against tenement walls in New York and Boston, Chicago and Detroit, and feel…
From Ward Serrill (The Heart of the Game) and Betsy Chasse (What the Bleep Do We Know!?), Song of the New Earth features the transformative life journey of renowned sound healer, psychotherapist and modern day mystic Tom Kenyon from a young aspiring Nashville musician to an internationally revered sound…
Women's actions against nuclear weapons. Made by an all-women team, Broadside, this moving documentary about the emergence of the feminist anti-nuclear movement starts with the action of 'embracing' the Greenham Common base in December 1982, when more than 30,000 women came to protest…
How can individuals counter the threat of nuclear destruction? Asks people to consider the question "is there anything I ought to be doing to prevent the holocaust?" rather than "will I survive it ?". The people featured in the film include determined protesters, some of whom are…
Exploration of non-violence in many contexts. Exploring the nature of non-violence in many contexts, from quarrels between neighbours to long-term political strategy. The tapes raise many questions concerning both the practicality and ethics of non-violence. Complete with detailed teaching/discussion…
An analysis of CND in 1983; of historic interest. A historic film which looks at the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Britain its membership and the money behind it, and at the unorthodox methods of some of the movement’s opponents. CND was born in Britain in 1958. For most of its existence…
John Pilger looks at world-wide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race. John Pilger's penetrating documentary which looks at world-wide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race. When the two American atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, they were code-named 'Fat…
