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The Kazakhs are horse-riding herders of sheep and yak, living on a vast territory administratively called East Wind Commune in Sinkiang province of China. For the first time a western television team was...
Describes a rural development project in Kenya, based on self-reliance, which illustrates the interrelationships between health care, agricultural improvement and the application of appropriate technology.
Illustrates the effects of the revolution on the peasant communities of Northern Nicaragua. Through the life of a small farmer and co-operative member the film shows some of the major developments and issues...
Shows the work of the Amsha Appropriate Technology Project in Tanzania in promoting rural self-reliance and enabling villagers to improve their environment. Projects shown include making new houses for...
A chronicle of daily life in a village in Epirus, northern Greece. Although the village appears to be virtually self-sufficient, the truth is that its economic, social and family life depend on the outer...
In 1986 Kent County Council began its Rural Schools Enrichment Programme, an experimental pilot scheme set up to discover how the county might improve the education offered in its smallest schools. Shows how...
Shows the relations between men and women in a Tanzanian community which seem to conform to the Islamic ideal of segregation. All Swahili rituals, including marriage, involve hospitality. While the men...
Although Malta is industrialised, the social life of the community revolves around the church just as it did in rural Europe before the Industrial Revolution. Centres around eleven episodes that show the...
This documentary, which was filmed in 1973, portrays the lives of the tightly knit community of dairy farmers in the rural hill towns of New England, partcularly Western Massachusetts and Southern Vermont....
Shows rural and urban collective life in China as it existed before reforms drastically changed the commune structure. Shows communal organisation in a textile factory, the handling of childcare, birth...
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