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- http://www.rmtv.org.uk/
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- Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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Website of the RMT transport union, showing speeches, footage of campaigns and marches, interviews and news items as well as a small selection of documentary films relevant to the trade union movement, including ‘The People’s Flag’, a 1987 documentary series on the Labour movement , part one of which can be seen here. There are also a number of campaign films made by left-wing film collective Cinema Action: The UCS Struggle is a campaign film from 1971 supporting the fight to retain their jobs by the workers at Upper Clyde Shipyards.
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- https://documentaryheaven.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Archaeology, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Business Studies, Current Affairs, Education, Film Studies, General Science, Geography, History, Politics and Government, Psychology, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Technology
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download
Website established in July 2009 providing links to over 2100 streaming documentaries, covering a wide range of subject areas and arranged according to genre. The subjects covered include Archaeology, Atheism, Art and Artists, Biology, Business, Environment, History, Philosophy, Religion, Science, and Space to name just a few. Most, although not all, of the videos are hosted by YouTube. The site is easy to browse and contains much that is interesting, such as this video What is the Higgs Boson, which comprises a series of discussions and interviews with scientists from the University of Nottingham who talk about the nature of the elementary particle the Higgs Boson and its implications for our understanding of the universe.
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- https://esrc.ukri.org/
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- Social Sciences
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- Business Studies, Current Affairs, Economics, Social Studies, Social Welfare
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download
The ESRC is the UK’s largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues, supporting independent, high quality research which has an impact on business, the public sector and the third sector. The multimedia part of their website hosts a number of videos including a series of films highlighting how ESRC-funded research is affecting all areas of people’s lives. Topics explored includes how to measure wellbeing and the economics of happiness, flaws in the official poverty statistics and views on immigration. The site also has a selection of more general videos, such as What is Social Science? which provides a brief introduction to the subject.
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- http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/africainvestigates/
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- Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Development Studies
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Part of the Al Jazeera English website, this series features African reporters going undercover to expose corruption and abuse across the continent. The subjects range from illegal mining in Ghana, in the film Ghana Gold, to an investigation by journalist Stanley Kwenda into the reasons why thousands of children have fled from Zimbabwe to South Africa over the past decade in Zimbabwe’s Child Exodus. Other subjects covered include the trade in the body parts of murdered albinos in Tanzania and illegal logging in Sierra Leone. The ethos and background to the series is explained in What Price the Story? which explains the dangers of being an investigative journalist in Africa and why it is important that African reporters be given a voice, rather than, as has been the custom in the past, having Western correspondents ‘parachuted’ in who lack the knowledge and local perspective to do the subject justice.
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- http://www.hrw.org
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- Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Politics and Government
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Human Rights Watch is an international non-governmental organisation dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. Its aim is to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice by investigating and exposing human rights violations and holding abusers accountable.
The website features videos, interviews, podcasts as well as photo essays and audio slideshows. The videos take the form of short documentaries which focus on a particular country, often featuring eyewitness accounts of abuse and human rights violations.
WANTED FOR WAR CRIMES looks at the Congolese general wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and playing a prominent role in ethnic massacres, killings, rape and torture as well as recruiting children for his army. Other films consider the displacement of indigenous people in Ethiopia, civilian casualties, the 2011 Libya campaign and war crimes in Idlib during peace negotiations in the Syrian conflict.
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- https://thewhy.dk/whydemocracy/
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- Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Education, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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A series of ten one hour films made by independent award-winning filmmakers from around the world on the subject of contemporary global democracy. To complement the longer documentaries 17 short films were also made which deal with personal, political and rights issues on the theme ‘What does democracy mean to me?' Some of the films were shown on BBC2 in October 2007. The website includes additional resources. The films are an initiative of The Why Foundation, which is a non-profit organisation that produces and distributes factual public media projects to promote independent information on key global issues. Other documentary series produced so far include: Why Poverty, and Why Women.
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- http://www.worldview.org.uk/about-us/yourworldview/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Development Studies, Environmental Studies, Ethnology, Geography, History, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Women’s Studies
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- Film/Video
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YourWorldView is the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association’s interactive online space for new and emerging filmmakers to showcase their short films and other multimedia content that will stimulate discussion about the portrayal of international issues. YourWorldView partners with film festivals and the BFI to provide masterclasses, screenings and opportunities for wider discussion. The website also features articles, reviews and events listings.
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- http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs
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Website of the Four Corners investigative journalism television series from ABC Australia. Many of the stories have an Australian connection but are of international interest e.g. dealing with the Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, possible health issues connected with wind turbines. The site contains transcripts of all programmes in the series going back to 2000, often with additional interview material, and more recent programmes are available for free, on-demand viewing.
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- https://www.youtube.com/user/VPROinternational/featured
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- Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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Backlight (Tegenlicht) is a weekly, 50-minute current affairs programme produced by VPRO, a national public broadcasting television channel in the Netherlands. The series combines in-depth analysis of recent developments by leading intellectuals, politicians, and business leaders with image-driven storytelling techniques, capturing the effects of these changes on the daily lives of the real world’s citizens. Selected programmes dealing with political, social and cultural issues of international interest, with English description and commentary, are streamed from the website. Now available via YouTube as VPRO Documentary.
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- https://www.aljazeera.com/
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- Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Geography, History, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Blogs, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings
English-language version of the Arabic-language television news network that broadcasts around the world to over 220 million households. A live stream of the channel is accessible via the Aljazeera English website, YouTube and a range of mobile devices. The Aljazeera website and YouTube also permit on-demand viewing of news clips and an extensive range of programmes that have been previously broadcast, together with background material including profiles and global reactions. There are also live blogs from reporters and correspondents on the protest movements in Syria, Libya, Yemen and Egypt and other key topical events from around the world.
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