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In October 2007, ten one-hour films focusing on contemporary democracy were broadcast in the world’s largest ever factual media event. Running alongside the 10 documentaries, and integral to the outreach...
A video essay on the birth of the constitutional state. The modern western parliamentary system was developed according to the Athenian model that was created in Greece 2,500 years ago. The video examines...
Anthony Giddens, at the time Director of the London School of Economics, delivered this series of 5 Reith lectures on the theme of globalisation from major cities around the world, locating the lectures...
An exploration of the state of democracy in the modern day United States of America. Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting the campaign...
America claims to support freedom and democracy abroad but does history really support this idea? An internal government memorandum of 1948 said "We have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6% of its...
This video puts forward the argument that if a key indicator of the health of a democracy is the state of its journalism, the United States is in deep trouble. Robert McChesney lays the blame for this state...
Reviews the underlying cognitive, social and physical requirements for all formal education and then presents the specific understandings and skills that are prequisites for attaining literacy. These are...
Three 8-minute films: 1) ELECTION FEVER: Follows the run-up to the election in Slovakia in September 1998, showing heated rallies in East Slovakia and Bratislave and examining some of the main election...
Three 8-minute films: 1) THE VISITOR: A couple have come from Siberia to visit friends in Moscow and are stopped by police demanding a tax towards the city’s upkeep - in reality, a new measure to curtail...
Robert Downey Jr reports on the National Democratic Convention in 1992, with a cautionary message to young Americans to start participating in democracy or get the kind of government they deserve. Features...
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