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This documentary explores the resourcefulness and imagination of people living in some of the world’s most overpopulated cities: Bombay, New York, Moscow and Mexico City.The film is a tale in twelve...
The Three Gorges Dam, the largest engineering project since the Great Wall and hotly contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle, provides the epic and unsettling backdrop for UP THE YANGTZE, a dramatic...
Documentary series about the hopes and dreams of a group of children at three schools in the small Chinese town of Xiuning, in rural Anhui. The programmes focus on the lives of a group of families, teachers...
This DVD contains the six programmes from the BBC1 observational documentary series which looks at the lives of several members of the new wave of inward migration into the UK. It takes the audience into...
This film is a journey through one of Britain’s most challenging cities: Manchester. Two sociologists Linda Janes and Gerry Mooney use the new Metrolink Tram to take them around the city, meeting people as...
The re-unification of Germany has been much harder on the people who lived in the communist East. Why is it that some have flourished in the new Germany, while others have fallen by the wayside? What...
Looks at the Asian cities of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and Singapore. Both are striving to be at the regional intersection of global economic matters, but while it is easy to see the futures of these cities...
With half the world’s population now living in cities, uses evidence drawn from examinations of New York, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Mexico City, Moscow, Sydney and Manchester to ask crucial questions about...
Follows a 1999 expedition to the North Face of Mount Everest to search for clues to the disappearance of climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, who apparently died on the mountain in June 1924....
With Mexico City’s population at over 15 million and growing, the city seems almost out of control, with vast areas of squatter settlements standing in stark contrast to rich enclaves surrounded by armed...
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