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| |  | Jan Maka was a child like any other, until his family's lives were turned upside down when it was discovered he had autism. What is it like to live with a child affected by this neurological disorder?
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| |  | Once alternative medicine was the only medicine. Now it’s making a comeback. But is there any truth in it? Sceptical Professor Kathy Sykes from Bristol University conducts a worldwide quest to quantify the effectiveness of acupuncture, faith healing and herbalism in three one-hour programmes on this DVD.
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| |  | In the 1920s PCBs were considered to be wonder-materials. Their fire resistance, electrical insulation and ability to make other materials more pliable led to use in countless applications. They were routinely used in hydraulic fluids, paint, ceiling tiles, Linoleum, electrical components, concrete, railway sleepers and domestic white goods. But in the 1970s PCBs were found to have leaked into the environment and entered the food chain, where they were wreaking a devastating effect on animal and human organisms around the world. They were banned, but it was too late. PCBs do not simply disappear and they continue to cause harm to this day.
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| |  | Autism: The Road Back charts the personal journey of three Canadian families with children who have been diagnosed with autism. It talks to parents, service providers and experts in the field about assessment, diagnoses, and options available for treatment, and provides guidance for families trying to navigate their way through the challenges of autism in the first six years of their child's life.
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| |  | At age 44, Jocelyn Morton had already been battling cancer for a decade. This film follows the last four months of her life. In an intimate, powerful and unvarnished way, it introduces us to a woman struggling to balance her life as a cancer patient with her desire to live as ordinary a life as possible.
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| |  | Luke Melchior jokes that at least he doesn't have to watch his cholesterol intake. Already, at 26, he has lived longer than most people with Muscular Dystrophy, a progressive wasting of the muscles. Knowing his life will be relatively short has made Luke feel an urgency about making a lasting contribution.
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| |  | Robert Coley-Donohue has ALS, a fatal degenerative neuro-muscular disease that strikes two in 100,000 people. This film follows Robert over the last three years of his life. As his physical abilities decline, tasks become harder. He is fitted with a feeding tube. Doing up a simple zip becomes a challenge and eventually an impossibility.
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| |  | Colour Blind is a film about subtle racism and its daily impact on teenagers in secondary school. To outsiders, Princess Margaret Senior Secondary in Canada looks like an ordinary high school. To teachers and students however it was a school full of racial rage, segregation and violence. Its troubles began in 1995 when the predominately white student body became a predominately ethnic majority.
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| |  | Deadline is a resource that examines some of the social issues around young people and the drug culture.
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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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| |  | With passion and creativity, Enough Is Enough features young women and men examining the issues of media violence. Motivated by concern over the media's sensational approach to violence, teens are using their talents to make themselves heard.
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| |  | This is the funny and inspiring video diary of an overweight young man who sets himself the challenge of running the London Marathon. We live with him through the highs and lows of his preparation, unsure whether he will achieve the difficult goal he has set himself. As he crosses the finish line and the tears flow the viewer cannot help but reflect upon the value of setting challenging goals and the process for seeing them through.
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| |  | Inspired by the hit documentary Through a Blue Lens (also available from Noisy Planet), Flipping the World is an astonishingly honest look at the world of youth and drug addiction, told by those who have been there. A culturally diverse group of seven Canadian students meets with members of the Odd Squad - Vancouver police officers who, since 1998, have been filming people addicted to drugs.
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| |  | Name-calling and cruel language hurt, say the teens who speak in this documentary DVD. Homophobic language is a common verbal put-down among young people, but many adults feel uncomfortable responding.
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| |  | Bank robbers have long been romanticised in Western culture, but few have been able to tell their own story with as much self awareness as Stephen Reid. This absorbing documentary is about an extraordinary man, a notorious member of the "Stopwatch Gang," who once lived out the crazy, frantic life of the outlaw bandit. Now sentenced for eighteen years to a prison cell, Reid has a lot of time to reflect on the journey that brought him to this moment.
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| |  | This is the shocking story of how the big oil companies sought huge profits by adding lead to petrol from the 1920s onwards in full knowledge of its negative effect on health and despite the existence of healthier alternatives such as bio-fuel. Although lead made petrol more efficient, it had been known to be poisonous since Roman times. The hundreds of thousands of tons of lead that have been spread around the world can be proven to have impaired the brain function of millions around the world.
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| |  | This DVD features in-depth conversations with six likeable young children who have lived their entire lives with HIV or AIDS.
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| |  | Single mother Gemma Peppe has had Hepatitis C for 17 years. She is one of half a million in the UK alone - although many are unaware that they have it. She has finally decided to seek treatment. This film follows her during her year of treatment and shows the impact it has on her relationship with her teenage son Louie.
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| |  | Who hasn't felt apprehensive at the thought of starting secondary school? This is the central theme of this short animated film. Employing imagination and humour, the director offers viewers a thought-provoking piece dealing with the major transition that young people experience.
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| |  | This film features sufferers talking about their experiences, interspersed with interviews with a doctor who explains the medical and psychological aspects.
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| |  | Parkour is the art of moving from place to place, usually within an urban environment, as efficiently and quickly as possible, using the abilities of the human body to the full. It’s also 2008’s coolest sport.
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| |  | Patrick Bird was a "a casualty of colonialism," having walked a dark boyhood journey of sexual abuse, neglect, foster homes, detention centres, loss, abandonment, drugs, alcohol and self-mutilation. Through no fault of his own, Patrick was disconnected from his family, his childhood and his Native American culture and left with few resources to cope with the pain and powerlessness.
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| |  | Tom was 18 when he killed himself, leaving his family to deal with the anguish of his death. Remembering Tom explores the tragic aftermath of a young man's suicide and the painful impact on his family. We meet Tom's mother, father, sister and brother two years after his death. They convey how they have learned to live with, not "get over," Tom's suicide.
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| |  | Are children being pushed prematurely into adulthood? This documentary analyses the hypersexualization of our environment and its effects on young people. Psychologists, teachers and school nurses criticise the unhealthy culture surrounding children, where marketing and advertising are targeting younger and younger audiences, bombarding them with sexual images. These stereotypes treat girls of all ages as sexual objects and exercise a damaging effect on their identities.
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| |  | Art, activism and disability are the starting points for what unfolds as a funny and intimate portrait of five surprising individuals. Having herself suffered a severe stroke in 1987, director Bonnie Sherr Klein focuses the lens on the world of disability culture and ultimately the transformative power of art.
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| |  | Young children ages 5 to 12 describe how they feel when they hear put-downs of themselves or their families in this DVD for kids, their educators and parents. Children learn from subtle clues what society thinks about gender roles, same-sex parents and family differences. The children in Sticks & Stones vividly describe how it feels to be teased when their families don't follow traditional gender roles. They talk about why bullies indulge in name-calling and what they think should be done about it.
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| |  | When a loved one dies, the process of making the loss real can be a lonely and confusing experience. Surviving Death: Stories of Grief is about people negotiating a new relationship with life after losing a loved one. Seven people - parents, children, siblings, partners and friends - reveal how they have been affected by the death of someone close to them.
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| |  | Taking Charge shows teens taking the initiative to overcome the fears and vulnerabilities of growing up in an increasingly violent and rapidly changing society. Through role-playing, theatre groups, peer discussion groups and anti-violence collectives these young activists have "taken charge," educating themselves and their peers towards a deeper understanding of the effects of violence rooted in sexism, racism and homophobia.
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| |  | Penicillin is the most ground-breaking discovery in the history of medicine, a drug that could cure people of the most dreaded infections. But abuse and overuse allowed many pathogenic bacteria to outwit the miracle drug. Today resistant bacteria are winning the battle against antibiotics as a whole and the development of new medicines has reached almost a standstill. Using archive footage and expert witnesses, this fascinating programme tells the whole sorry tale from start to finish.
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| |  | Seven Canadian policemen began video-documenting the lives of people on their beat in 1998 to create a powerful educational tool to help prevent drug use among young people. This unique group of officers, dubbed the Odd Squad, forged an unusual relationship between police and addicts in Vancouver.
Through a Blue Lens tells this moving and compassionate story. The result is a gritty documentary that gives addicts a voice to talk openly about who they are and how they got to the streets.
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| |  | Child trafficking is a major human rights problem in Asia. Millions of children are subjected to untold abuse and shame. This DVD reveals three kinds of trafficking that are prevalent: direct kidnapping of children from their parents; the use of misrepresentation to trick young girls into prostitution; and what is known as “voluntary entrapment” - trafficking hidden under a guise of marriage.
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| |  | Every child is born full of promise, but for those diagnosed with schizophrenia in the prime of their lives, independence, acceptance and even a place to call home usually slip beyond their grasp. Filmed over three years, Unbreakable Minds captures the emotional journeys of three Canadian men as they struggle to find acceptance in a world that regards them with fear and hostility.
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| |  | This is a compelling, in-depth look at the phenomenon of "cutting", a disorder whereby people harm themselves to relieve stress from abuse, trauma and other unmanageable emotions.
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| |  | Stuttering is as old as human speech. The biblical Moses stuttered. Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe and King George VI were afflicted. Yet it remains a medical enigma. Unspeakable examines the nature, history and treatment of a speech impediment that affects about 1% of the world’s population regardless of language, culture, class or ethnicity.
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| |  | Large numbers of young men from the south Asian community die in gang-related violence in central Vancouver every year. Gangs are a reality of urban life, yet behind the body count and the headlines, a different battle is being waged. Educators and parents are taking action against gang violence. Director Baljit Sangra's documentary Warrior Boyz takes an unflinching look at the root causes of gang violence, offering real solutions and a hard-fought hope for the future.
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| |  | Three youths tell their stories in XS Stress: Teens Take Control - an essential guide to staying afloat while navigating the choppy waters of adolescence. It's a time when people undergo big changes and assume new responsibilities, juggling school, family and friends. Throw in work, dating, exams, racist remarks and extra-curricular activities - and it's no wonder teens get knocked off balance.
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| |  | This resource examines the consequences of offending behaviour and how to break the negative cycle. It is based around a twenty-five minute film drama 'Lee's Story' about a young repeat offender.
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| |  | This resource pack, specifically created for KS4 and KS5 PSHE, explores the pressures and responsibilities of being a young parent.
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| |  | A Love That Kills is a powerful documentary that tells the tragic story of Monica, a nineteen-year-old woman who was murdered by her former boyfriend. Monica's mother speaks passionately throughout the video, bravely telling viewers about her daughter's life and tragic death. She describes the helplessness she felt watching the emotional and economic abuse. She later discovered that physical battering was also part of the violence that Monica endured.
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| |  | This DVD features two powerful dramas of abusive teenage relationships. Its purpose is to generate class discussion about relationships, abuse and “date violence”. High school students Mark and Terese are involved in a dangerous relationship. Mark is becoming possessive and abusive. Terese thinks it's probably her fault but is convinced she can handle it... until Mark physically attacks her in front of a group of friends.
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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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| |  | 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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| |  | In Family ties, we meet a number of young people who have Down’s syndrome. The film focuses on a family from England whose mother has adopted a number of children with a range of symptoms. We get to know the people, learn their back stories and hear from some of their birth mothers. If your students don’t know people with Down’s syndrome, then this will be a good introduction.
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