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| |  | This documentary is about the battle for India’s Namada River. On one side, the government wants to build a hydro-electric dam. On the other, a group of women protests that it will ravage the ecosystem of the region and with it the livelihoods of thousands of people.
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| |  | This DVD tells the stories of five girls and three boys, aged 8 to 16, who live in the coastal areas of India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Each was affected by the Asian Tsunami of December 2004, losing loved ones, their home or their belongings. Their stories of survival, courage and resilience give an insight into the long and arduous journey back to normalcy for millions of Asians affected by one of the worst natural disasters of all time. Along the way, we also probe what happened to the massive volume of donations the world pledged to help the survivors.
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| |  | This DVD examines the plight of children affected by the conflict in Afghanistan. It features their lives alongside the work of people who are trying to help them.
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| |  | Mount Saint Valentin, the highest mountain in Patagonia, is difficult to access and swept by constant storms. This film records the efforts of scientists to drill and remove an ice core filled with valuable information about climate change. For two years French and Chilean glaciologists battled with the elements in this hostile environment in order to extract their precious ice samples. This DVD brings to life the excitement of practical science in the real world.
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| |  | Many of India’s lowest caste, the Untouchables, work as debt slaves for members of higher castes. These are people who have in the past borrowed a sum of money, for instance to pay for a wedding or a funeral, that they have no realistic hope of ever paying back - many find it impossible even to find out how much they owe. They are doomed to work unpaid for the lender in perpetuity. This film looks at the injustice of the system and the work of activists to liberate the victims from their slavery.
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| |  | This is a realistic and disturbing snapshot of the people who live or work at Delhi’s sprawling dump, from the rag-picker to the coin-diver to the industrial worker. The scale of the dump is vast and the stories of the people there are in turn touching and shocking.
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| |  | This series examines three man-made disasters that have had a profound impact on either the physical or living environment of the world.
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| | _.jpg) | Swaziland has the highest proportion of AIDS infection in the world. More than 40% of the population is HIV-positive and average life expectancy is just 32 years. SWAPOL (Swaziland Positive Living) is a women’s organisation that challenges the victimisation and discrimination of HIV-infected women in the country’s rural communities. This presents its own difficulties in an undemocratic country where the king is suspicious of any form of activism. The film follows the women who devote their lives to SWAPOL, working to help their community in its time of crisis.
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| |  | Ein el-Helweh is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. It is notorious as a violent and lawless place where there is daily conflict between Fatah and militant Islamic groups linked to Al-Qaeda. With unparalleled access, this film shows the daily life of the people who live there - their jobs, their pastimes, their children's education, the radicalisation of some of the number, the frustrations of ghetto life and their dream of one day returning to their homeland.
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| |  | Large tranches of the Arctic ice cap are melting. For the first time it is possible to sail all the way around the islands of Svalbard – the world’s most northerly civilisation. These islands provide the best demonstration of how global warming is affecting Arctic wildlife. The film-maker’s journey around these harsh coasts brings him uncomfortably close to the polar bears that are starving as their hunting grounds melt away. We also meet walruses, polar foxes and many birds, all of which are feeling the climatic changes.
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| |  | This is Lin Sutherland’s journey to look for the planet’s tallest trees on the island of Tasmania. Unfortunately she is not alone in this search - it’s a race against the massive and relentless wood chipping industry. Can Lin locate these ‘living legends’ before the woodcutters bring them down? Our forests depend on the cycle of growth, decay and renewal for survival but this is now threatened by logging, mining and cattle grazing.
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| |  | Oceans are becoming the world’s rubbish dumps. It is estimated that every kilometre of ocean contains 74,000 pieces of plastic, forming a plastic soup of waste that kills hundreds of thousands of animals every year and leaches chemicals up the food chain.
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| |  | Have North Americans become unwitting guinea pigs for multinationals that are blithely disregarding millions of years of evolution? In just a few short years, genetically modified plants have become part of the daily diet and are already found in 75% of processed foods. This revolution has occurred without consumer awareness and without the knowledge of the potential risks to human health and to the environment. Many scientists and farmers vigorously condemn the absence of adequate independent testing.
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| |  | The Arctic sea ice is melting. The global climate is growing steadily warmer and in the Arctic this process is proceeding twice as fast as in the rest of the world. At the current rate climatologists expect the Arctic to be completely ice-free as early as 2050. This DVD shows the importance of the ice to the animals who live there especially the seal, which relies on it to give birth and to rest, and the polar bear which roams the ice searching for seals.
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| |  | This film documents the daily lives of series of traditional Romany families who travel in Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece. It includes a history of the Romany people, going back to their origins in India, their exit through Mesopotamia and Anatolia and their settlement in every corner of Europe
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| |  | On the outskirts of Mumbai, Dharavi is Asia’s biggest slum. Its 530 acres are home to a million people. Its pottery units alone have an annual turnover of around $4 million. Entrepreneurship sprouts in tiny sheds. This is a fascinating insight into a challenging human environment where people feel anything but sorry for themselves.
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| |  | This documentary takes a global perspective on the issue of slums. We visit locations in Africa, Asia and Latin America to hear first-hand the stories of inhabitants and experience their living conditions.
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| |  | Pax Chingawale pedals his bicycle over 20 km a day, visiting twenty villages in southern Malawi. The Bicycle chronicles his journeys as he battles AIDS at the grassroots. He works alongside traditional healers who are influential at the local level yet often contribute unwittingly to the spread of the disease. He searches for the abandoned and the ill while monitoring the progress of those whose lives are being saved by anti retro-viral drugs.
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| |  | This is the dramatic story of the West India Regiment, a regiment of slaves created to defend the interests of the British Empire at the end of the 18th century. In return for their fierce loyalty, soldiers were rewarded with the status of being the first black Britons. This film tells their story from establishment to dissolution, bringing the slave trade to life in this anniversary year.
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| |  | The future of water is the future of humankind. How water will run in our societies will determine the future of our environment, power relations, the balance between rich and poor, war and peace and the destinies of countries and continents. With up-to-date footage from 25 countries, this documentary presents an original and comprehensive narrative of the challenges that humankind will face in relation to its most precious resource.
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| |  | This four-DVD set examines mankind’s relationship through history with fresh water. Each programme considers a different aspect of the relationship. The viewer learns how our development was influenced by water-related factors and becomes conscious that no society can survive for as much as day without access to fresh water.
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| |  | Europe is home to five million illegal immigrants. 500,000 more arrive each year. This programme looks at the living conditions of these men, women and children who live without papers, insurance and other things that we take for granted. Difficult questions are raised because Europe’s agriculture, catering and health service sectors would simply not be able to function without them. The film includes footage from the UK, Germany, Spain and China plus a well-made reconstruction of the Morecambe Bay cockle-picking tragedy.
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| |  | As we come to the end of the Oil Age, there is a general acceptance that the next era of human existence will have to be powered by renewable energy sources. This level-headed, non-cranky analysis examines how the three key alternative energy sources - solar, wind and biomass - are being developed for everyday applications and how they point the way towards genuine energy sustainability for future generations.
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| |  | This three-DVD series travels to the wettest and driest places on the planet to examine the challenges facing mankind in managing its water resources. Host Marq de Villiers, a world authority on the subject, undertakes a mammoth quest in an effort to understand the looming world water crisis.
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| |  | Of the billion people who do not have access to clean drinking water, 80% live in sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Asia and Southern Asia. 4,500 children die every day as a result. This three-part programme reports on the gravity of the situation in India, Indonesia and The Philippines.
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