Burkina Faso’s October Revolution and its Aftermath Documentary | 52 mins | HD | 16/9 When Blaise Compaoré tried to amend Burkina Faso’s constitution to allow himself to serve a third term, his people chased him from the presidential palace. Young, fun and absolutely determined…
Media mogul and Democratic US Congressman William Randolph Hearst once owned and operated the world's most powerful media empire. The real-life inspiration behind Orson Welles' classic film "Citizen Kane," Hearst built an extravagant retreat in the hills of San Simeon, CA, to entertain…
The history of American Woman Suffrage is long, complex, messy, filled with reversals, betrayal, threats, violence, jail and abuse. Nineteenth century Ohio was a hotbed of radical thinking and human rights movements. Abolition, Woman's Suffrage, and Temperance rocked even the smallest towns. From…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/asmara-eritrea-p161.aspx by Caterina Borelli in Tigrynia, Italian and English - subtitled in English color, 63 min, 2008 Asmara - capitol of the East African nation of Eritrea - is recognized as an architectural…
Can a father bring up young children just as well as a mother? A discussion of how easy or otherwise it is to reverse the roles of mother and father in bringing up small children. Are there innate differences, or is it mostly culture and expectation that dictates that mothers should stay at home with…
Is a baby's future health decided at the time of conception? This television programme looks at recent research which suggests that a baby's health and well-being may be predetermined by the conditions prevailing at the time of its conception. It is now possible to obtain pre-conceptional…
The Australian poet filmed in London, reading his poems and offering his wisdom. Peter Porter has made his name as a 'social poet' with a gift for satire; the Australian abroad, free to express an outsider's views. But he has come to stand for much more than that, moving assuredly through…
Programme critical of exam oriented education. This World in Action programme argues that the examination system in our schools is actually harming children, many of whom are leaving school with hardly any education, and a chip on their shoulder, failures judged by present standards. In contrast,…
Classification and analysis of movements. In three sections - 1. Questions 2. Actions and Words 3. Learning to Look. The arena of the circus is used to introduce a classification of movement, with two clowns raising questions concerning definition and ambiguity. A method of movement analysis is offered…
Touching study of two little girls in Delhi. A personal document of the time that the producer, Ann Richardson, spent in Delhi. Her two most regular daily companions were 11 and 12 year old Manju and Seema who came to clean the flat. The girls are at first a little cautious, then revelling in the…
The study of language acquisition. Based on studies of language acquisition, this film notes that children world wide progress through the same sequence of language stages at about the same rate. Through animation, we see how an infant proceeds in the first few months from crying through cooing, early…
The complex emotions of someone who has given birth to a stillborn child. The journalist Bel Mooney reveals what it is like to give birth to a stillborn child. In this forthright and perceptive interview with the actress Sheila Hancock it transpires that many hospital staff find this a very difficult…
