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The Sandinista government of Nicaragua has made remarkable progress since the 1979 Revolution with its campaigns on literacy, health, child care and land reform. A United States backed opposition, the...
In 7 parts: 1) introductory programme on the world as a market place in which labour is bought and sold; 2) migrant workers in Mexico; 3) the condition of Mexican migrants in the US; 4) British companies...
Filmed in Ethiopia over a three-year period from 1983 to 1986, the programme chronicles how environmental destruction and mismanaged aid pushed a village and its people to the edge of extinction. Focuses on...
An economist, Keith Griffin (President of Magdalen College, Oxford) looks critically at the new ‘green revolution’ as scientists work in Mexico, Bangladesh and the Philippines to help small farmers grow...
Record of a 10-day tour of Nicaragua in May 1984 by a delegation of 12 women from Britain and America; the women came from trade union movements, from black women’s organisations and from the peace...
A film made of the Porgera people in Papua New Guinea before gold was discovered. Shows their courting ceremony, and a sing-sing; discusses marriage and bride price, wealth, debt and payback, salt, stone...
Films intended to challenge the notion that ill-health is a matter merely for individual concern, arguing that society is also involved, and change must come about through political action. 1: Argues that...
Examines some of Kenya’s economic and ecological problems: cash crops which deprive local people of food, short-sighted agricultural policies which leave the earth impoverished and development schemes...
Tells the story of an imaginary country where most of the available money is spent on an inappropriate hospital.
Examines a world system rooted in the unequal distribution of wealth and power and shows how the issues affect people in the UK. 1: Shows work being done in Britain to increase awareness of how the wider...
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