Title
Videos on Africa - Camosun College Library Video Holdings (Jan 2012)
Summary
Chicken for Africa :
the dirty trade in
leftovers
Nowhere is more chicken breast eaten than in Europe and North America, a development due
primarily to the wellness craze. The industry is only delighted to serve this trend, as the breast fillet
is highly profitable. But what to do with the scorned remainder of the chicken? Thighs, wings,
backs and innards are produced in the abattoirs of South America, the USA, Asia and Europe but
no-one there will eat them and so thousands of tons of this meat are exported yearly to
developing countries"--Container.
2009
Clever monkeys
Love, language, guilt, envy, generosity, secrets, lies, and sophisticated society are not unique to
humans. We share all those complex concepts with our relatives-- the monkeys! Monkeys have a
very curious nature which leads them to try new things, but it is their culture, the passing of
information from one generation to the next that teaches them much of what they know. In this
program we see how the tiny marmoset in South America to aggressive baboons of Africa and
compassionate toque macaques in Sri Lanka learn from their families how to find food,
communicate, recognize kin, even use tools, medicine, and language.
2008
Africa
A gathering of
grandmothers :
August 11-13, 2006,
[Toronto, Canada]
This video highlights sessions from the Grandmothers' Gathering that took place in Toronto in
August 2006. Intended for use by grandmothers' groups as a resource for those who were not able
to attend, the video includes testimonials and workshops led by African and Canadian
grandmothers. This video is not intended to be shown as a 'stand-alone'. Should you wish to
screen a film about grandmothers caring for AIDS orphans, we recommend "Grandmothers: The
Unsung Heroes of Africa". --publisher's website
2007
Africa
A generation of
orphans
A documentary that gives voice to six orphans in Africa and the grassroots organizations working
valiantly on their behalf--highlighting their hardship, hope and courage as they struggle with the
loss of their parents to AIDS.
2007
Easing the pain of
HIV/AIDS in Africa
Easing the Pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa is an introduction to the Foundation's four areas of work.
Narrated by Stephen Lewis, the film highlights the work of grassroots organizations in Africa and
also shows what Canadians are doing to help fight the pandemic.
2007
Country
Africa
Africa
Africa
Year
Grandmothers : the
unsung heroes of
Africa
A moving film highlighting the crucial role grandmothers play in caring for AIDS orphans and in
holding their families and communities together
2007
Women : the face of
AIDS
The documentary traces the stories of five HIV-postive women in sub-Saharan Africa and the
grassroots organizations that support them. 59% of the 24.7 million people who are living with HIV
are women. Three quarters of 15 to 24 year olds newly infected with HIV are female. Issues of
gender inequality, poverty and the vulnerablility of women and girls lie at the center of the
HIV/AIDS pandemic.
2007
Africa
Stephen Lewis : the
man who couldn't
sleep
On Dec 31st, Stephen Lewis's tenure as UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa comes to an end.
For five and a half years, he's criss-crossed Africa and the world at breakneck speed. His crammed
schedule has included endless speeches and high level meetings with Presidents, UN officials and
anyone who will listen to his impassioned plea for Africa. Possessing an intricate knowledge of the
continent, he's made countless visits to grassroots projects: they give him great hope but also
disturb him most deeply because the spectre of death is still everywhere. Each death haunts him.
He rarely sleeps on these epic journeys -- in fact it's not clear when he gets any rest at all.
2006
Africa
The bicycle : fighting
AIDS with
community
medicine
An intimate look at AIDS in Africa and an inspiring example of how local communities can join with
global medical expertise to battle the deadly disease. Documentary chronicles the work of Dignitas
International in Malawi, and specifically volunteer Pax Chingawale's journeys as he battles AIDS at
the grassroots.
2006
Africa, who is to
blame?
Civil wars rage in at least 16 African countries and, despite an abundance of natural resources,
millions of Africans live in abject poverty. But who's responsible? And, more importantly, what can
be done to promote peace and prosperity? Tony Blair has described the plight of Africa as 'a scar
on the conscience of the world'. And for older Africans, Africa's woes are due to factors beyond the
continent's control: colonialism, the slave trade, racist plots, greedy multinationals and
deteriorating terms of trade. But for a new generation, personified by June Arunga 'widely touted
as a future leader of Kenya' this picture of Africa as global victim doesn't wash. The history and
present day situations in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda are explored. In this program expresident of Ghana, JJ Rawlings, together with Arunga, talk to Africa's political and economic elites,
and meet ordinary Africans. They set out to uncover the root causes of Africa's misery.
2005
Africa
Africa
Africa
Africa
Africa
Africa
Africa
Africa
Africa
In women's hands :
a film on women,
HIV, and hope
Filmed in several locations across the world, this short documentary discusses the importance of
organizing and creating awareness arount the increasing rates of HIV/STD among women and of
advocacy for microbicides. Personal stories are also portrayed.
2005
Tana Bana
[videorecording
(DVD)] : wisdom of
the loom
There is a village just outside Calcutta, India, where every family has a hand loom. As you pass the
houses, the air is pierced by the "clack-clack-clack" of flying shuttles. In the family courtyards,
threads are starched, warps are prepared, and bolts of finished cloth are evaluated with discerning
eyes. In an age when cloth manufacture is dominated by computer-driven industrial mills, what are
the virtues of hand weaving? What is the magic of the hand-loomed cloth? This is Maiwa's second
feature-length documentary film on craft. Here you will find works of great beauty and skill,
ingenious variations, and delicate figures. Shot in rural locations in Africa, Laos, Indonesia, India,
and Pakistan, this documentary will explore the world of looms, weaves, and artisans.
2005
Eyes wide open
One-hour documentary on the work of courageous and resourceful HIV/AIDS campaigner
Catherine Phiri. Catherine was a Malawian nurse who tested HIV-positive following her husband*s
death due to AIDS. Risking isolation and even violence in a conservative society, the mother of two
decided to speak publicly about her condition, breaking the silence surrounding AIDS. She became
a respected leader and a source of inspiration for many people
2004
World in the
balance
The People Paradox reveals many startling trends. In Japan, Europe and Russia, birth rates are
shrinking and the population is aging. In parts of India and Africa, more than half of the still
growing population is under 25. The world population is now careening in two dramatically
different directions.
2004
[The Stephen Lewis
Foundation]
Stephen Lewis outlines the reasons for establishing the Stephen Lewis Foundation, and talks about
its operations in assisting with the prevention and treatment of AIDS in Africa. As well, several
examples are shown of programs designed for easing the social problems arising from the AIDS
pandemic.
2003
Human evolution
This series explores recent advances in the field of biology. This session examines mitochondrial
Eve and other fossil clues that increasingly point to Africa as the point of origin of our species.
Discusses how humans replaced their hominid cousins, including Neanderthal, leaving the
chimpanzee as our closest living relative.
2003
Africa
Gender matters
Despite making a substantial contribution to Third World economy, gender differences in India,
Africa and South America result in women having no control of their lives or the resources they
produce. Examines the different forms of gender subordination and their historical roots and how
women need a public voice to influence levels of government and development planners
Africa
Humans: who are
we?
Traces the evolution of the human race from primate ancestors in Africa to the development of
modern humans. Looks at spread of populations, and at mental,technological and linguistic
development etc.
1999
African and AfricanAmerican religions
Focuses on the cultural diversity of Africa as shown by its many religions: traditional and neotraditional African, Christianity and Islam (the latter two having developed separately from
elsewhere since early times). Also examines the oral traditions, myths, music and ceremonies to
show how African-American Christianity, Haitian voodoo and Cuban santeria have been influenced
by traditional African religions and Christianity. With interviews, archival and current footage,
images, and re-enactments.
1998
Africa
Amistad
Based on a true story, the movie chronicles the incredible journey of a group of enslaved Africans
who overtake their captor's ship and attempt to return to their beloved homeland. When the ship
La Amistad, is seized, these captives are brought to the United States where they are charged with
murder and await their fate in prison." - blurb
1997
Africa
The New
chimpanzees
Presents images of chimpanzees in the wild in their variety and intimacy. Researchers discuss the
new insights they have gained into the social and cultural organization of chimpanzees through
years of study of the different chimpanzee groups in Africa.
1995
Africa
Age, common
interest and
stratification
Examines social groupings based on age, common interest or class, detailing their role in a variety
of cultures. Topics include: recreational associations, Black railway porters, street gangs, upper
class society (United States); Masai male age sets (East Africa), Blacks (South Africa), caste system
(India).
1994
Who gets in?
Presents a detailed view of the Canadian immigration process. This documentary, shot in Canada,
Africa and Hong Kong provides surprising answers to that difficult question, "Who gets in?" and
raises important issues about the nature of Canadian immigration policy.
1989
Africa
Africa
1999
Africa
Africa
Africa
Algeria
Benin
The Rendille
The Rendille live in the driest area of the belt of semi-desert which stretches across Africa from
West to East. The one domestic animal which can survive and convert the thorn bushes into milk
and meat is the camel. The Rendille grow no crops. They keep a few sheep and goats. But their
lives revolve around their camels. They move their villages six times a year, but their camel herds
roam back and forth continually over the whole area. The Rendille are experiencing the worst
drought in years, but they have survived droughts before and are confident that they will again.
1976
The Tuareg
The Tuareg of the Sahara are the "noble savages" of North Africa. A primitive, nomadic group of
people, they still use slaves, can still remember fighting the French, and live a life which bears little
resemblance to that of the emerging countries of Africa.
1972
Embera : the end of
the road
Postcards from the
future
Educating Lucia
At first sight, the peaceful Embera people of Colombia live what seems an idyllic life. Four
centuries ago the Spaniards went to Colombia for gold - and found that the Indians wouldn't work
for them. In the clashes that followed, many Embera were massacred, and the invaders were
forced to import slaves from Africa. Today the former slaves have pushed the Indians into the
remote jungle headwaters, so that in the face of further pressure they have nowhere else to go.
Now, as if to seal their fate, the Colombian government is driving the last section of the PanAmerican highway straight across their territory.
Discusses feminist issues and values, detailing contributions of contemporary women activists to
the creation of a better world. Topics include: science (women astronauts), environmental
conservation (Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Rio Summit), peace movement (Greenham Common,
Chechnya, Central & South America), violence against women (Quebec, Brazil), religious extremism
targeting women (Algeria).
Part 25 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Focuses on the
story of three African sisters who want to graduate to secondary school but are more likely to
receive no formal education, working as seasonal laborers on one of Zimbabwe's large tobacco
farms. They're being raised by their grandmother who can only afford school fees for one girl. In
African countries such as Zimbabwe, Uganda and Benin the odds are dramatically against girls
getting an education.
1971
1997
2003
Botswana
From pole to pole
Looks at our planet as a whole and considers the key factors that have shaped its natural history.
The lives of animals and plants are dominated by the sun and fresh water which trigger seasonal
journeys. In the Arctic spring, a mother polar bear and cubs emerge from their winter den. They
have just two weeks to cross the frozen sea before it melts and they become stranded. Further
south, time-lapse cameras capture the annual transformation created by the Okavango floods in
Botswana.
Botswana
Regopstaan's dream
: how the last
surviving South
African Bushmen
are reclaiming their
land
Part 17 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Twenty-five
years ago, the Bushmen were evicted from the Kalahari by the Apartheid government who claimed
they were too westernized to cohabit with the wild animals in the National Park. This film which
follows the story of Bushmen fighting to live on ancestral lands within the park, includes interviews
with Bushmen, park employees, farmers and government officials each providing their own
perspectives.
2000
A human way of life
An archaeological team carries out field work at a suspected site of Homo erectus huntinggathering activity in the Kalahari desert, Botswana. The characteristics of the hunting-gathering
way of life are revealed in contemporary footage of the !Kung people
1981
Nazinga Game
Reserve
Clark Lungren has lived most of his life in Burkina Faso, where he learned to love the land and wild
animals there. By the time he grew up, wild animals had nearly disappeared. Lungren worked with
the locals to develop a wildlife preserve of 4,700 square kilometres, so successful that the elephant
population has greatly increased there.
1998
The African Queen
"When her village in the Congo is destroyed at the start of World War I, a spinsterish missionary
(Hepburn) is rescued by an unlikely companion-- a gin-loving river trader (Bogart). Their perilious
escape on the war-torn 'African Queen' turns into an outright battle against nature, the Germans
and each other as the tempestuous pair realize they have fallen in love"--
1951
Blood Coltan
The West's demand for Coltan, used in mobile phones and computers, is funding the killings in
Congo. Under the close watch of rebel militias, children as young as ten work the mines hunting
for this black gold. 'Blood Coltan' exposes the web of powerful interests protecting this blood
trade. Meet the powerful warlords who enslave local population and the European businessmen
who continue importing Coltan, in defiance of the UN.
2007
Botswana
Burkino Faso
Congo
Democratic
Republic of
Congo
2006
Democratic
Republic of
Congo
Democratic
Republic of
Congo
Egypt
The greatest silence
: rape in the Congo
"Since 1998 a brutal war has been raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Over 4
million people have died, and many tens of thousands of women and girls have been
systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and
the Congolese army. Until now, the world has known nothing of their stories. A survivor of gang
rape herself, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson has created an extraordinary film in
which these brave women finally speak" -- Container.
2007
The origins of AIDS
An exploration of a theory of how AIDS was introduced to the human population. Illustrates the
thesis presented in Edward Hooper's book The river : journey to the source of HIV and AIDS, and
expands on it with new reporting. Many believe the answer lies in the research undertaken by
scientist Hilary Koprowski, who between 1957 and 1960, injected his experimental polio vaccine
into almost one million people in the former Belgian Congo. The film interviews scientists and
journalists, as well as Africans who worked in the labs where the alleged vaccines were made, and
also documents the ongoing battle between journalists and scientists in proving the theory's
viability.
2004
Frontline World :
stories from a small
planet, June 23,
2009
As the digital television conversion makes tens of millions of analog TVs obsolete and Americans
continue to trash old computers and cell phones at alarming rates, FRONTLINE/WORLD presents a
global investigation into the dirty secret of the digital age -- the dumping of hundreds of millions of
pounds of electronic waste around the world each year. Tracking "e-waste" to the slums of Ghana
and the far-off provinces in China, producer/correspondent Peter Klein and his team of graduate
journalism students fan out around the world to document the growing impact of this toxic trash
on those who desperately scavenge it for precious metals. They also explore the potential threats
to privacy, as criminal gangs attempt to harvest data from America's old computers and cell
phones and exploit it. Also, a popular competition to inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs in
the Middle East and a pioneering effort to make an affordable wheelchair for the developing
world." -- Container.
2009
Women and Islam :
Islam unveiled
Investigates the issues and symbolisms attached to the veil, hijab, and chador in Muslim women.
Examines the harsh laws regarding Muslim women and how they relate to the Koran and the
prophet Mohammed. Does it have fundamental basis in the Koran? Explores the religious as well
as traditional and medical bases for clitoral circumcision or female genital mutilation. Spiritual
leaders, Islamic experts, as well as students from universities in varoius countries are interviewed
regarding issues in feminism, the practice of secret or unregistered marriage called "urfi", divorce,
pre-marital sex, the virtue of chastity in the Muslim world, and polygamy. Filmed in Britain, Egypt,
Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey [and Nigeria].
Egypt
Egypt
Egypt
Egypt
Egypt
2006
Proudly serving
Canadians: Canadian
Forces ... year in
review [2006]
2006: Rebuilding Afghanistan -- Contributing to international security (Mediterranean Sea; Persian
Gulf; Egypt) -- Protecting Canada and North America.
More human than
human
This first program in the series demonstrates how one image, among all others, dominates our
contemporary world: the human body. We travel from the modern world of advertising to the
temples of classical Greece and the tombs of ancient Egypt to solve the mystery of why humans
surround themselves with images of the body, images that are startlingly unrealistic
Ancient religions of
the Mediterranean
Using footage and images, interviews, examples and re-enactments, traces the spiritual history of
the Mediterranean Basin by examining the ancient cultures, religions and literature that have
greatly influenced those of the modern world, especially the Hebrew and Christian scriptures.
Includes: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Asia Minor, Canaan, Greece, and Rome.
Egypt: population
overload ; Oman :
looking beyond oil
Egypt, Population Overload examines the rapid population growth of Egypt and its agriculture,
particularly along the Nile River Valley. Oman, Looking Beyond Oil, investigates the oil rich nation
of Oman as it seeks to diversify its economic base beyond a dependence upon oil.
2006
2005
1998
1995
Egypt
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Ethiopia
The human race
A four-part documentary series in which historian and journalist Gwynne Dyer weighs the
implications of the way we live together, the way we organize societies, and our complex
relationship with the environment. Part 1: Examines the implications of large developing countries
like India adopting full-scale consumer economies. Part 2: Documents the experience of a
remarkable group of South Africans engaged in moving their society beyond racial and tribal
compartments built by apartheid. Part 3: Visits the Nile Valley to chart the emergence of patriarchy
in ancient history, and to counter the notion that male domination somehow represents a natural
an inevitable order. Part 4: Examines the effects of industrialization on Mexico, and the impact of
its development on the rest of the world.
Eritrea: after peace
falls rain
Filmed in Eritrea after it gained independence in a thirty year war with Ethiopia, this film
demonstrates how the Eritreans are rebuilding a country devastated by protracted armed conflict
and a decade of drought. It conveys the people's exuberance for their hard fought freedom as it
displays how they are acting on their commitment to construct a new model of democratic
development in the post-Cold War world.
1992
Volcano
"Volcanoes are usually seen as destructive and frightening, but they are absolutely critical to
making the Earth a home for life. No force has played a more important role in creating the planet
we know today. Travelling to Ethiopia, Iceland and New Zealand, this programme reveals how the
Earth's inner heat shapes our world -- raising great mountains, levelling cities, creating new land,
and destroying it too. Even powering the evolution of life on Earth. Without it the Earth would
have become a dead planet millions of years ago." --producer's website
2007
Black gold
After oil, coffee is the most actively traded commodity in the world with $80 billion in retail sales.
But for every $3 cup of coffee, a coffee farmer receives only 3 cents. Most of the money goes to
the middlemen, especially the four giant conglomerates which control the coffee market. Tracing
the path of the coffee consumed each day to the farmers who produce the beans, Black Gold asks
us to 'wake up and smell the coffee', to face the unjust conditions under which our favorite drink is
produced and to decide what we can do about it
2006
1994
Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia
The right to choose
Part 8 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Nibret is eleven -and they're marrying her off to a man she's never met. Forced marriage isn't unusual in northern
Ethiopia -- it helps to cement ties between families and establish land rights. This program reports
on the dissonant voices arguing for change in local cultures -- and calls for reproductive health care
and primary education for women and looks at widespread discrimination and violence against
women.
2003
Following Antigone :
forensic
anthropology and
human rights
investigations
Since 1984, the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) and other similar groups have
helped families of human right victims to find, identify and bury the remnants of their loved ones
and bring evidence to court. This documentary shows various aspects of the application of forensic
sciences to human rights investigations. Using footage recorded by EAAF members in Argentina, El
Salvador, Ethiopia, Haiti and East Timor during the past eighteen years, the documentary covers
the entire process of investigation, including historical, archaeological, and laboratory methods,
testimonies of relatives of the victims, and reburial ceremonies of the remains of their loved ones
many years after they died.
2002
The mind of a child
Documents the work of Vancouver School District First Nations education specialist Lorna Williams,
who, having researched Reuven Feuerstein's views on cognitive development and cultural
transmission, has adapted his mediated learning theory and teaching methods for use by British
Columbia teachers of aboriginal children. Includes interviews with Feuerstein & footage of
programs in action in Israel/Palestine, Ethiopia and inner city Washington, D.C.
1995
Eritrea: after peace
falls rain
Filmed in Eritrea after it gained independence in a thirty year war with Ethiopia, this film
demonstrates how the Eritreans are rebuilding a country devastated by protracted armed conflict
and a decade of drought. It conveys the people's exuberance for their hard fought freedom as it
displays how they are acting on their commitment to construct a new model of democratic
development in the post-Cold War world.
1992
Ghana
Frontline World :
stories from a small
planet, June 23,
2009
Ghana
Child slavery
As the digital television conversion makes tens of millions of analog TVs obsolete and Americans
continue to trash old computers and cell phones at alarming rates, FRONTLINE/WORLD presents a
global investigation into the dirty secret of the digital age -- the dumping of hundreds of millions of
pounds of electronic waste around the world each year. Tracking "e-waste" to the slums of Ghana
and the far-off provinces in China, producer/correspondent Peter Klein and his team of graduate
journalism students fan out around the world to document the growing impact of this toxic trash
on those who desperately scavenge it for precious metals. They also explore the potential threats
to privacy, as criminal gangs attempt to harvest data from America's old computers and cell
phones and exploit it. Also, a popular competition to inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs in
the Middle East and a pioneering effort to make an affordable wheelchair for the developing
world." -- Container.
Part I: main stories on this disc: Poverty in Peru; Freddy who works illegally in the mines to help his
family survive. Ghana; Mawulehawe, a fishing boy on Lake Volta.
Africa, who is to
blame?
Civil wars rage in at least 16 African countries and, despite an abundance of natural resources,
millions of Africans live in abject poverty. But who's responsible? And, more importantly, what can
be done to promote peace and prosperity? Tony Blair has described the plight of Africa as 'a scar
on the conscience of the world'. And for older Africans, Africa's woes are due to factors beyond the
continent's control: colonialism, the slave trade, racist plots, greedy multinationals and
deteriorating terms of trade. But for a new generation, personified by June Arunga 'widely touted
as a future leader of Kenya' this picture of Africa as global victim doesn't wash. The history and
present day situations in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda are explored. In this program expresident of Ghana, JJ Rawlings, together with Arunga, talk to Africa's political and economic elites,
and meet ordinary Africans. They set out to uncover the root causes of Africa's misery.
2005
Banking on life and
debt
This documentary shows the impact of International Monetary Fund and World Bank policies on
people living in three developing countries: Ghana, Brazil and the Philippines. Loan incentives and
pressure to re-pay debts have resulted in increased poverty, starvation and general hardship.
1995
Ghana
Ghana
2009
2009
Ghana
Ghana
Ghana
GuineaBissau
Kenya
Kenya
Economic
anthropology
Examines economic behaviour in a variety of cultures, focussing largely on methods for the
distribution of goods and trading patterns. Topics include: generalized reciprocity (Kung of South
Africa), balanced reciprocity (Yanomamo of Venuzuela & Trobriand Islanders), central
redistribution (Mendi of New Guinea), marketplace (Asante of Ghana), mixed local/world market
(carpet makers of Afghanistan), cash economy (United States).
1994
Sex and marriage
Looks at marriage in a variety of cultures, focussing largely on its function as an economic and
social contract. Topics include: exogamy (Mbuti pygmies of Zaire), endogamy (Jews), polygamy
(Turkana of Kenya, Asante of Ghana), arranged marriage (Myang of Laos), bride markets (Berbers
of Morocco), bride capture (Nepal) associated rites and ceremonies.
1994
Guns and pencils
Examines concepts of family as a social unit and household as an economic unit in a variety of
cultures. Topics include: naming customs, socialization of children (Mbuti pygmies of Zaire, North
American nuclear family), family violence, extended family (India), matrilineal/patrilocal
households (Asante of Ghana), single mothers (United States), effects of social change e.g.
settlement on traditional family structures (Yanomamo of South America, Kung of South Africa).
Interviews with Paulo Freire in which he gives his views on education in developing countries in the
context of his work in Guinea-Bissau
Taking root : the
vision of Wangari
Maathai
Taking Root tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai,
whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the
environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy--a movement for which this
charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration.
2008
The constant
gardener
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's
companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of
passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their
mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted
by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by
embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged
access to diplomatic secrets, Justin risks his own life and will stop at nothing to expose the truth - a
conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined.
2006
Family and
household
1994
1979
Kenya
Kenya
Kenya
Kenya
Kenya
Africa, who is to
blame?
Civil wars rage in at least 16 African countries and, despite an abundance of natural resources,
millions of Africans live in abject poverty. But who's responsible? And, more importantly, what can
be done to promote peace and prosperity? Tony Blair has described the plight of Africa as 'a scar
on the conscience of the world'. And for older Africans, Africa's woes are due to factors beyond the
continent's control: colonialism, the slave trade, racist plots, greedy multinationals and
deteriorating terms of trade. But for a new generation, personified by June Arunga 'widely touted
as a future leader of Kenya' this picture of Africa as global victim doesn't wash. The history and
present day situations in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda are explored. In this program expresident of Ghana, JJ Rawlings, together with Arunga, talk to Africa's political and economic elites,
and meet ordinary Africans. They set out to uncover the root causes of Africa's misery.
2005
World in the
balance
The People Paradox reveals many startling trends. In Japan, Europe and Russia, birth rates are
shrinking and the population is aging. In parts of India and Africa, more than half of the still
growing population is under 25. The world population is now careening in two dramatically
different directions.
2004
Searching for
Hawa's secret
Hawa Chelangat is a 37-year-old prostitute in Kenya who supports her five children through
commercial sex. Frank Plummer is a Canadian scientist studying AIDS, and since 1983 the centre of
his work has been a clinic for female sex workers in the Nairobi shanty-town where Hawa lives.
This program explores a scientific quest to find a prevention rather than a cure for HIV: a difficult
struggle in a world where vaccine research gets only 1% of AIDS funding.
1999
Elephants
Joyce Poole came to Kenya at 19 to study elephants, and spent years at Amboseli National Park.
Her discoveries about elephant communication have broadened our understanding of elephants.
She has also helped draft an international treaty banning trade in ivory, to protect elephants from
extinction.
1998
Postcards from the
future
Discusses feminist issues and values, detailing contributions of contemporary women activists to
the creation of a better world. Topics include: science (women astronauts), environmental
conservation (Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Rio Summit), peace movement (Greenham Common,
Chechnya, Central & South America), violence against women (Quebec, Brazil), religious extremism
targeting women (Algeria).
1997
Kenya
Kenya
Kenya
Kenya
Kenya
Lesotho
The nature of
anthropology
Discusses the history and philosophy of anthropology and traces its evolution as an academic
discipline. Topics and illustrative case studies include: Turkana tribe of Kenya, genocide of the
Tasmanian aborigines, contributions of Franz Boas and Margaret Mead, past appropriation of
artifacts in the name of preserving vanishing cultures (e.g. Omaha Nation).
1994
Sex and marriage
Looks at marriage in a variety of cultures, focussing largely on its function as an economic and
social contract. Topics include: exogamy (Mbuti pygmies of Zaire), endogamy (Jews), polygamy
(Turkana of Kenya, Asante of Ghana), arranged marriage (Myang of Laos), bride markets (Berbers
of Morocco), bride capture (Nepal) associated rites and ceremonies.
1994
Monkey business
Strum, an anthropologist who has made an extensive study of olive baboon societies in East Africa,
takes viewers into the lives of the "Pumphouse Gang" to explore the social behaviour of this
primate and ways in which it resembles that of humans.
1993
A Poor man shames
us all
A Poor man shames us all (60 min.) suggests Western views of wealth and economic needs have
created a society of strangers in contrast to the cultures of the Weyewa of Indonesia and the
Gabra of Kenya, where economies of interdependency measure wealth through people rather than
possessions.
1991
Masai manhood
This is a study of the spectacular and colourful ceremony that surrounds the life, in particular the
coming-of-age, of Masai warriors. It shows the way in which young men are expelled from the
tribal centre to live in the bush, and the breath-taking ceremony that attends their return and
induction into the life of the tribe as mature and responsible elders. A companion-piece to Masai
Women.
1975
Flow : for love of
water
Investigates the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply from the
perspective of politics, economics, pollution and environmental issues, human rights, public
health, and the effects of corporate greed and apathetic governments. Features interviews with
scientists and activists, who discuss the water crisis at both the global and human scale. Also gives
viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and
those developing new technologies to address the problem.
2009
Liberia
Madagascar
Madagascar
Madagascar
Political
organization
Examines major types of political organization as categorized by anthropology, illustrating each
with footage from a representative culture. Topics include: bands (Kung of South Africa), tribes
(Mendi of New Guinea), chiefdoms (Kpelle of Liberia), theocracy (Tibet), sovereign states; role of
kinship and religion; recent trends toward decentralization (Soviet Union, Africa).
1994
Seasonal forests
The Taiga forest, on the edge of the Arctic, is a silent world of stunted conifers. The trees may be
small but filming from the air reveals its true scale. A third of all trees on Earth grow here and
during the short summer they produce enough oxygen to change the atmosphere. In California,
home to the giant redwoods, General Sherman, a huge sequoia, is the largest living thing on the
planet, ten times the size of a blue whale. The oldest organisms alive are bristlecone pines, with
some of them more than 4,000 years old, pre-dating the pyramids. But the baobab forests of
Madagascar are perhaps the strangest of all. This program looks at these and other seasonal
forests, as well as filming the rare Amur leopard of Eastern Russia.
2009
Casino Royale
Casino Royale introduces James Bond before he holds his license to kill. But Bond is no less
dangerous, and with two professional assassinations in quick succession, he is elevated to "00"
status. "M", head of the British Secret Service, sends the newly promoted 007 on his first mission
that takes him to Madagascar, the Bahamas and eventually leads him to Montenegro to face Le
Chiffre, a ruthless financier under threat from his terrorist clientele, who is attempting to restore
his funds in a high stakes poker game at the Casino Royale. "M" places Bond under the watchful
eye of the Treasury offical Vesper Lynd. At first skeptical of what value Vesper can provide, Bond's
interest in her deepens as they brave danger together. Le Chiffre's cunning and cruelty come to
bear on them both in a way Bond could never imagine, and he learns his most important lesson:
Trust no one.
2007
Rare earth
"The final film brings together the themes of the series and reaches some startling conclusions.
The Earth is an exceptionally rare planet -- and an exceptionally unusual one -- which has only
been able to nurture and sustain complex life thanks to an extraordinary number of lucky breaks
and coincidences. But this film also raises a huge question -- are we in danger of messing up the
very systems that make Earth so different and so special? The programme travels to Madagascar, a
place where man's influence on the planet is keenly felt." --producer's website
2007
Madagascar
Lemurs: with John
Cleese
John Cleese travels to Madagascar to check on five lemurs, born in captivity, who were released
back into the rain forest with the hope that they will survive and eventually mate with the existing
population of lemurs to introduce new genes into the population
1999
Madagascar
Madagascar: a
world apart
Presents an extraordinary cast of characters, including chameleons of every color and size, a
panther-like carnivore called a fossa, and the charismatic lemures for which the island is famous.
1998
Madagascar
Sex, lemurs and
holes in the sky
Contrasts the consumption of resources and relatively small numbers of people in industrialized
countries with the high birth rates but low individual consumption of countries in the developing
world. Compares families in Manhattan and Madagascar. Stresses that both industrialized and
developing countries alike, individual citizens and world politicians, must address the issues of
consumption, pollution and high populations. Presents beginnings of the solution with a program
of education, health improvement and lower birth rates in southern India, and recycling in
Manhattan.
1992
Malawi
The bicycle : fighting
AIDS with
community
medicine
An intimate look at AIDS in Africa and an inspiring example of how local communities can join with
global medical expertise to battle the deadly disease. Documentary chronicles the work of Dignitas
International in Malawi, and specifically volunteer Pax Chingawale's journeys as he battles AIDS at
the grassroots.
2006
Eyes wide open
One-hour documentary on the work of courageous and resourceful HIV/AIDS campaigner
Catherine Phiri. Catherine was a Malawian nurse who tested HIV-positive following her husband*s
death due to AIDS. Risking isolation and even violence in a conservative society, the mother of two
decided to speak publicly about her condition, breaking the silence surrounding AIDS. She became
a respected leader and a source of inspiration for many people
2004
Many Westerners embrace globalization -- but do they grasp how profoundly their consumption
and spending habits affect people thousands of miles away? Filmed entirely on location in Malawi,
Ecuador, Nicaragua, India, and Guatemala, this five-part series illuminates what globalization
means for citizens of those nations. Emotional and informative interviews with farmers, school
teachers, community activists, and others reveal the human side of situations too often assessed
only in terms of business and profit
2004
CD Rom 1: Action research in Malawi ((44 min)
2004
Malawi
Malawi
Malawi
Malawi : a nation
going hungry
Participation - a
promise unfulfilled?
Mali
Mali
Mali
Morocco
Boys, toys and the
big blue marble
A documentary about the unenviable existence of millions of young boys around the world who
are pressed into forced labour, fundamentalist religious indoctrination, military service (while they
are still smaller than the guns they carry) and prostitution rings. All too often these boys are
forgotten, their fate sealed from their infancy. As they are abused and their spirit is crushed, they
repeat the cycle as adults, abusing and crushing the next generation. The film travels to Bolivia, SriLanka, Burma, Brazil and Mali, and is told from the boys' viewpoint. This documentary is based on
the same concept as the documentary "Of hopscotch and little girls," also directed by Marquise
Lepage.
2008
The dollar a day
dress
Steve Bradshaw travels to Mali, Uganda, Peru and Cambodia. In each country he tries to collect
locally-produced fabric for London College of Fashion students to make into a symbolic dress. This
dress represents the plight of the more than one billion people who live on a dollar a day or less
because of the world's trade system, specifically subsidies to farmers in Europe and the U.S. of
almost $300 billion a year, six times the amount the West gives in aid, which makes it extremely
difficult for poor countries to exploit their trade advantage.
2005
The Art of living
In The Art of living (60 min.), Western society relegates aesthetics to specialists while tribal
cultures express matters of life and death in everyday activities and artifacts. Illustrates this point
with reference to the Wodaabe tribe of Niger and the Dogon peoples of Mali.
1991
The Atlantic Coast
The Atlantic Coast sweeps us eastward -- and backward: east to the Atlantic coast, and hundreds of
millions of years back in time, to tell the story in three dramatic chapters of how tectonic upheaval
pummelled and pounded eastern North America, until the shape we recognize today finally
emerged. Along the way, viewers are invited to travel over a long-vanished ocean, forefather of
the Atlantic. We linger over thousands of fossils whose discovery once solved a problem that
baffled Darwin, and witness graphic proof of how North America and Africa were once bound
together. Our journey takes us to Newfoundland where we explore the Tablelands mountain range
before moving on to Nova Scotia and then to Morocco seeking the link between mass extinction
and the violent break-up of a super-continent. Tectonic movement lies at the heart of this
dramatic story of volcanic outpourings, massive rifting of continents and ultimately, the bursting
forth of a new, young ocean, the Atlantic. --cover
2007
Morocco
Morocco
Morocco
Free trade slaves
Film discusses free trade zones and the accompanying human problems that have arisen with
human rights, exploitation of workers and environmental degradation. Filmed on location in Sri
Lanka, El Salvador, Mexico and Morocco.
Sex and marriage
Looks at marriage in a variety of cultures, focussing largely on its function as an economic and
social contract. Topics include: exogamy (Mbuti pygmies of Zaire), endogamy (Jews), polygamy
(Turkana of Kenya, Asante of Ghana), arranged marriage (Myang of Laos), bride markets (Berbers
of Morocco), bride capture (Nepal) associated rites and ceremonies.
Saints and spirits
This program explores the parts religion and mysticism play in the lives of women who profess the
Islamic faith, revealing their private lives in a society where only men face the public gaze. The
spiritual aspects of their life have social as well as religious significances: since women rarely
attend the mosque, rituals and celebrations are held in the home among women. All-important in
this society is the Shawapa, or seeress, who interprets and reveals the guiding influence of the
spirits over daily life. Saints and Spirits focuses on a Shawapa dedicated to the spirit Sidhi
Mahmoun. Note credits: "Produced by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of
Texas at Austin, from material shot for the Granada Television film 'Some Women of Marrakech.'"
Mozambique under
Mozambique attack
New Guinea
Kinship and descent
I
1999
1994
1979
After independence, Mozambique was committed to socialist ideals to benefit the majority.
Examines how external aggression, civil war and harsh structural adjustment policies have reduced
the country to poverty, famine and dependence on uncoordinated external aid organizations.
1999
This 2 part film presents family lives in New Guinea, Africa, the Arctic; among the Navaho in New
Mexico and the Yanomamo in Venezuela. Describes kinship in terms of clan systems, lineages,
matrilineal and patrilineal societies. Also shows how anthropologists study kinship and its
importance in understanding cultures.
1983
Niger
Niger
Nigeria
Photo souvenir
"During the social and cultural euphoria of a newly independent Niger in the 1960s, Philippe
Koudjina worked as a photojournalist and later opened his own photo studio. For many years, his
snapshots of the youth scene in Niamey and his individual and family portraits provided Koudjina
with a national reputation and a good living. Today Koudjina has fallen on hard times. He is no
longer able to take photos because he is slowly losing his sight to glaucoma, and after having been
hit by a car, he must use crutches to get around. His cameras, photographic equipment and a
disorganized collection of negatives gather dust in a decaying cupboard, while he begs on the
street in order to survive. Photo souvenir features interviews with Koudjina, and contrasts his
desperate situation with the fortunes of other African photographers such as Malick Sidibe? and
Seydou Keita, whose work from the same period has brought them renewed attention and
financial rewards. While the film documents the effort by two French photo connoisseurs to
organize an exhibition of Koudjina*s work in Paris, Photo souvenir reveals the fickle cultural
process by which one-time "photo souvenirs" become "photographic art," and whether or not an
artistic reputation is made in the western world"--container.
2006
The Art of living
In The Art of living (60 min.), Western society relegates aesthetics to specialists while tribal
cultures express matters of life and death in everyday activities and artifacts. Illustrates this point
with reference to the Wodaabe tribe of Niger and the Dogon peoples of Mali.
1991
Chinua Achebe
This program analyzes the impact Chinua Achebe and his writings have had on world literature, as
well as his influence as an editor and a spokesman for a generation of African writers. Dr. Achebe,
professors Abiola Irele and Gerald Graff, and Charles Larson, editor of the anthology Under African
Skies, discuss the characterization, social implications, and levels of interpretation of Things Fall
Apart. Vital concepts indigenous to the Ibos of southeastern Nigeria such as oral culture,
reincarnation, and negotiation, concepts essential to a deep understanding of the novel, are also
presented.
2004
Nigeria
Nigeria
Rwanda
Rwanda
Women and Islam
[videorecording] :
Islam unveiled
Investigates the issues and symbolisms attached to the veil, hijab, and chador in Muslim women.
Examines the harsh laws regarding Muslim women and how they relate to the Koran and the
prophet Mohammed. Does it have fundamental basis in the Koran? Explores the religious as well
as traditional and medical bases for clitoral circumcision or female genital mutilation. Spiritual
leaders, Islamic experts, as well as students from universities in varoius countries are interviewed
regarding issues in feminism, the practice of secret or unregistered marriage called "urfi", divorce,
pre-marital sex, the virtue of chastity in the Muslim world, and polygamy. Filmed in Britain, Egypt,
Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey [and Nigeria].
2003
All different, all
equal
Chronicle of a
genocide foretold
Part 11 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Looks at progress
in achieving greater equality for women -- five years after the Beijing Conference on Women
where government delegations pledged themselves to tackle increasing violence against women.
Examines gains in women's rights globally with visits to Northern Ireland, Nigeria, Fiji, New
Zealand, Brazil and other nations focusing on crimes against women and achievements by women
towards equality.
Explores the roots of the massacres in Rwanda that left a million people dead and looks at the
aftermath of the genocide. DISTURBING IMAGES - VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED.
2000
199697
Africa, who is to
blame?
Civil wars rage in at least 16 African countries and, despite an abundance of natural resources,
millions of Africans live in abject poverty. But who's responsible? And, more importantly, what can
be done to promote peace and prosperity? Tony Blair has described the plight of Africa as 'a scar
on the conscience of the world'. And for older Africans, Africa's woes are due to factors beyond the
continent's control: colonialism, the slave trade, racist plots, greedy multinationals and
deteriorating terms of trade. But for a new generation, personified by June Arunga 'widely touted
as a future leader of Kenya' this picture of Africa as global victim doesn't wash. The history and
present day situations in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda are explored. In this program expresident of Ghana, JJ Rawlings, together with Arunga, talk to Africa's political and economic elites,
and meet ordinary Africans. They set out to uncover the root causes of Africa's misery.
2005
Rwanda
Rwanda
Mothers courage :
thriving survivors
Looks at how the Rwandan women got back on their feet following the genocide of 1994 and faced
up to the situation they were left with in its aftermath. At the heart of alternate portraits
encountered through this journey is Athanasie Mukarwego who, following her husband's
assassination, began her fight to survive a three months long collective rape while her four
children were being held in the next room.
The deeply moving true story of a five-star-hotel manager who used his wits and words to save
more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.
2005
Rwanda
Hotel Rwanda
Shake hands with
the devil: the
journey of Roméo
Dallaire
Senegal
Proudly serving
Canadians: Canadian
Forces ... year in
review
Features members of the Canadian Armed Forces performing their duties at home and in various
countries, including Afghanistan.
2005
Turbulences
The global market is not a neutral territory, but an unprecedented state of interconnections and
interdependence. Circling the globe, director Carole Poliquin meets squatters in Paris, families
living on welfare in Quebec, factory workers in Thailand, teaches in Ontario, fish processors in
Senegal and debt-ridden Mexicans. She also interviews some of the market speculators and fund
mangers who help dictate economies worldwide and yet, for the most part, remain indifferent to
the consequences of their actions. The program highlights the unprecedented power of the
financial markets and the threats they pose to democracy.
1997
Blood diamond
Participation - a
promise unfulfilled?
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking
1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: to recover a rare pink diamond of
immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son who was consripted as a child soldier into the
brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and
ravaged countryside.
CD Rom 1: Action research in Malawi ((44 min) -- CD Rom 2: Action research in Sierra Leone (53
min.).
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone
2005
Based in part on the book, Shake hands with the devil by (Ret.) Lt. General Roméo Dallaire with
Major Brent Beardsley. Filmed during General Dallaire's first return to Rwanda in April, 2004, 10
years after the genocide.
2004
2007
2004
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
The 16th man
During the apartheid era, South African teams had been banned from international competition,
and its exclusion from rugby was an especially severe blow to the white population. Blacks, on the
other hand, saw the national Springbok team & its colors as symbols of oppression and cheered
against their home team. With the 1995 Rugby World Cup set to take place in South Africa,
Mandela recognized an opportunity with the Springboks to achieve national unity through sport.
2010
[Naomi Tutu]
This is a record of Naomi Tutus's address at the McPherson Playhouse, presented April 1, 2009 in
the Camosun Speaker series. She talks about growing up in apartheid South Africa and the
contemporary situation there.
2009
Flow : for love of
water
Investigates the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply from the
perspective of politics, economics, pollution and environmental issues, human rights, public
health, and the effects of corporate greed and apathetic governments. Features interviews with
scientists and activists, who discuss the water crisis at both the global and human scale. Also gives
viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and
those developing new technologies to address the problem.
2009
Dead in the water
There's a problem with the world's water supply. One in four people on earth doesn't have access
to clean drinking water. Water and sanitation infrastructures are crumbling. We keep using more
of it, yet continue to degrade and deplete it. Powerful companies spotted a crisis and saw a
business opportunity. From Moncton, New Brunswick to Atlanta, Georgia and Buenos Aires,
Argentina to Soweto, South Africa, The fifth estate's Linden MacIntyre investigates the results of
the effort to privatize what many consider a public trust.
2006
Story of a beautiful
country
Filmmaker Khalo Matabane travels through the nine provinces of South Africa in a minibus taxi. His
passengers talk about their feelings and impressions of South Africa since the end of apartheid in
1994, covering topics such as land, race, language, globalization, democracy, identity, and violence
2004
The lost boys :
apartheid's legacy
The day we learned
to think
Born into poor, dysfunctional families and disease-ridden communities during the apartheid era,
"The Lost Boys' were weaned on brutal violence and crime. They became thieves, hijackers and
even rapists. Despite their difficulty in making commitments, they have been attending therapy
sessions at the Zimiseleni Group on a weekly basis for 3 years now, and are desparately trying to
improve the quality of the choices they make, even when they feel like there are none. Through
unique access to this therapy, we gain insight into their lives and their struggle to overcome the
legacy apartheid has left them.
Discoveries made by anthropologists off the coast of South Africa have shed light on the science of
human evolution.
South Africa
The cost of living
Part 14 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. This program
examines why AIDS drugs are unaffordable in developing countries, using as examples Thailand
and South Africa, two countries who have applied to use compulsory licenses and parallel
importing -- practices agreed under World Trade Organization guidelines -- to make their own
generic versions of anti-retroviral drugs to halt the AIDS epidemic in their countries. It also asks
why anti-retroviral drugs still aren't included in the WTO's essential drugs lists.
2000
South Africa
Regopstaan's dream
: how the last
surviving South
African Bushmen
are reclaiming their
land
Part 17 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Twenty-five
years ago, the Bushmen were evicted from the Kalahari by the Apartheid government who claimed
they were too westernized to cohabit with the wild animals in the National Park. This film which
follows the story of Bushmen fighting to live on ancestral lands within the park, includes interviews
with Bushmen, park employees, farmers and government officials each providing their own
perspectives.
2000
South Africa
An act of faith : the
Phelophepa health
train
Part 4 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. A group of health
professionals spends nine months each year touring the poorest and most remote areas of South
Africa. With a full contingent of volunteer doctors, dentists, optometrists and health educators on
board, the "good clean health train" delivers quality health care to deprived rural communities.
2000
The Third sex
This program examines intersexuality through four case studies: ambiguous genitalia deriving from
a missing sex chromosome, Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, 5-Alpha-Reductase Deficiency in an
insular Caribbean community and hermaphroditism in South Africa. The issue of societal
acceptance is addressed as well, along with the vital importance of emotional support and
counseling. Contains nudity.
1997
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
2003
2003
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
You can't beat a
woman
This documentary explores the problem of violence against women on a global level. The abuse of
women is followed through Canada, Russia, South Africa, Israel, Japan and Chile.
1997
The human race
A four-part documentary series in which historian and journalist Gwynne Dyer weighs the
implications of the way we live together, the way we organize societies, and our complex
relationship with the environment. Part 1: Examines the implications of large developing countries
like India adopting full-scale consumer economies. Part 2: Documents the experience of a
remarkable group of South Africans engaged in moving their society beyond racial and tribal
compartments built by apartheid. Part 3: Visits the Nile Valley to chart the emergence of patriarchy
in ancient history, and to counter the notion that male domination somehow represents a natural
an inevitable order. Part 4: Examines the effects of industrialization on Mexico, and the impact of
its development on the rest of the world
1994
Political
organization
Examines major types of political organization as categorized by anthropology, illustrating each
with footage from a representative culture. Topics include: bands (Kung of South Africa), tribes
(Mendi of New Guinea), chiefdoms (Kpelle of Liberia), theocracy (Tibet), sovereign states; role of
kinship and religion; recent trends toward decentralization (Soviet Union, Africa).
1994
Economic
anthropology
Examines economic behaviour in a variety of cultures, focussing largely on methods for the
distribution of goods and trading patterns. Topics include: generalized reciprocity (Kung of South
Africa), balanced reciprocity (Yanomamo of Venuzuela & Trobriand Islanders), central
redistribution (Mendi of New Guinea), marketplace (Asante of Ghana), mixed local/world market
(carpet makers of Afghanistan), cash economy (United States).
1994
Family and
household
Examines concepts of family as a social unit and household as an economic unit in a variety of
cultures. Topics include: naming customs, socialization of children (Mbuti pygmies of Zaire, North
American nuclear family), family violence, extended family (India), matrilineal/patrilocal
households (Asante of Ghana), single mothers (United States), effects of social change e.g.
settlement on traditional family structures (Yanomamo of South America, Kung of South Africa).
1994
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
Sudan
Culture change
Discusses factors that precipitate social change (innovation, invention, diffusion) and documents
their impact on a number of cultures. Topics include: modern agriculture vs. traditional rice
farming (Bali), colonialism and land tenure (Kung of South Africa), resource development (mining)
and environmental destruction (Yanonamo of Venezuela, Brazil), technology - roads, electricity,
etc. (Maya of Mexico).
1994
Age, common
interest and
stratification
Examines social groupings based on age, common interest or class, detailing their role in a variety
of cultures. Topics include: recreational associations, Black railway porters, street gangs, upper
class society (United States); Masai male age sets (East Africa), Blacks (South Africa), caste system
(India).
1994
Gender matters
Despite making a substantial contribution to Third World economy, gender differences in India,
Africa and South America result in women having no control of their lives or the resources they
produce. Examines the different forms of gender subordination and their historical roots and how
women need a public voice to influence levels of government and development planners.
1994
The Muvver tongue
During the 19th century, the English language spread throughout the British Empire to New
Zealand, South Africa, Rhodesia, India, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Falkland Islands. This
program gives an overview of the spread and influence of English through British colonialism.
1986
24 days in Brooks
In a decade, tiny Brooks, Alberta has been transformed from a socially conservative, primarily
Caucasian town to one of the most diverse places in Canada. Hijabs have become commonplace,
downtown bars feature calypso and residents speak 90 different languages. Immigrants and
refugees have flocked here to work at Lakeside Packers - one of the world's largest
slaughterhouses. Centring on the 24 days of the first-ever strike at Lakeside, this film is a nuanced
portrait of people working together and adapting to change. They are people like Peter Jany Khwai,
who escaped war in Sudan, wears an African shirt and a cowboy hat, and affirms his Canadian
identity as well as his determination to fight for his rights. Or Edil Hassan, a devout Muslim born in
Somalia, who counts her hours of organizing and picketing among her proudest moments. As 24
Days in Brooks shows, people from widely different backgrounds can work together for respect,
dignity, and change - even though getting there is not easy.
2007
Sudan
Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
The new killing
fields
Patterns of
subsistence. Food
foragers and
pastoralists
Language and
communication
Darwin's nightmare
Travels behind the rebel lines in Darfur, Sudan, uncovering evidence of systematic killings on a
horrific scale, possibly the first genocide of the twenty-first century. Attempts to find out more
about the Janjaweed and their leaders
Examines food supply techniques of hunter-gatherers and pastoral (herder, nomad) societies, and
discusses ensuing cultural characteristics. Includes segments on: the Kung people of the Kalahari
Desert, Mbuti pygmies of Zaire, Netsilik Inuit, Nuer of Sudan, Sherpas of Nepal, Baseri of Iran, and
Kwakiutl Indians.
2004
1994
Examines the relationship between language and culture. Topics include: language structure and
acquisition, non-verbal communication, social/historical factors in dialect development (Black
English); role in cultural renaissance (Kwakiutl Indians), as a shaper of worldview (Hopi Indians),
and reflector of socio-economic conditions (Nuer people of Sudan).
1994
Darwin's nightmare is an essential documentary on the perverse aspects of globalization. A
documentary film that exposes the poverty and misery of the people living on the shores on Lake
Victoria in Tanzania who are dependent upon fishing the Nile perch from the lake for their meager
earnings. The fish are exported by air to Europe to be sold cheaply and the planes that arrive to
transport the fish at first seem to arrive empty, but turn out to carry weapons to Africa and fish
away. Enter the Nile perch, a voracious predator implanted into Lake Victoria in Africa in the '60's
which extinguished native fish species and multiplied so fast that its fillets are today exported
worldwide - predominantly in exchange for the countless weapons used to wage war in the dark
centre of the continent.
2005
Tanzania
Tunisia
Uganda
Uganda
The silver age
Civil wars rage in at least 16 African countries and, despite an abundance of natural resources,
millions of Africans live in abject poverty. But who's responsible? And, more importantly, what can
be done to promote peace and prosperity? Tony Blair has described the plight of Africa as 'a scar
on the conscience of the world'. And for older Africans, Africa's woes are due to factors beyond the
continent's control: colonialism, the slave trade, racist plots, greedy multinationals and
deteriorating terms of trade. But for a new generation, personified by June Arunga 'widely touted
as a future leader of Kenya' this picture of Africa as global victim doesn't wash. The history and
present day situations in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda are explored. In this program expresident of Ghana, JJ Rawlings, together with Arunga, talk to Africa's political and economic elites,
and meet ordinary Africans. They set out to uncover the root causes of Africa's misery.
Part 13 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Advances in
healthcare mean that more people are living longer with over 560 million age 60 and over in the
world today. In parts of Europe, North America, and Japan, the proportion of older people is rising
faster than any other group. The result, often, is a growing population of old people with too few
young people to take care of them. This program explores the implications in three different
countries: India, Japan and Tunisia.
Educating Lucia
Part 25 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Focuses on the
story of three African sisters who want to graduate to secondary school but are more likely to
receive no formal education, working as seasonal laborers on one of Zimbabwe's large tobacco
farms. They're being raised by their grandmother who can only afford school fees for one girl. In
African countries such as Zimbabwe, Uganda and Benin the odds are dramatically against girls
getting an education.
2005
The dollar a day
dress
Steve Bradshaw travels to Mali, Uganda, Peru and Cambodia. In each country he tries to collect
locally-produced fabric for London College of Fashion students to make into a symbolic dress. This
dress represents the plight of the more than one billion people who live on a dollar a day or less
because of the world's trade system, specifically subsidies to farmers in Europe and the U.S. of
almost $300 billion a year, six times the amount the West gives in aid, which makes it extremely
difficult for poor countries to exploit their trade advantage.
2003
Africa, who is to
blame?
2005
2003
Speaking out :
women of Uganda
Until recently, Uganda garnered attention for its policy of placing women in decision-making roles.
For over 10 years, the country not only had women in the roles of Vice President, Minister of Ethics
and Integrity and frequently members of parliament, they also focused substantial dollars on
education and community development for girls and women. Speaking Out: Women of Uganda
introduces not only these high-level politicians, but also a diverse array of women empowering
themselves and their communities. From the child-led Girls Education Movement (GEM), to the
Cow Project initiated by AIDS widows to improve their financial status, to the hosting of the 2002
International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Ugandan women demonstrate their ability to
develop and implement solutions to the social issues plaguing their people. Many initiatives focus
on the education of young girls, most of whom can ill afford school fees and represent the group
most vulnerable to HIV infection. Interviews with these young scholars and their mentors reveal a
savvy new generation of women ready to tackle the many challenges in today's Africa.
2003
Uganda
The debt police
Part 29 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Uganda has
recently benefited from a debt relief initiative, but in a country where corruption is rife, is this
relief really going to reach the poor? This program travels in rural Uganda with the Uganda Debt
Network, an NGO working to ensure that this aid does reach the poor and improves their lives, and
reports on the thriving anti-corruption movement that has sprung up, with popular theater and
campaigning schoolchildren.
2003
Zambia
Their brothers'
keepers : orphaned
by AIDS
Looks at two child-headed families living in Chazanga Compound, a shantytown in Lusaka, Zambia.
Orphaned by AIDS, they must scramble for necessities and education. Local aid workers and the
community try to help, but they also have meager resources. Includes excerpts from a speech
given by Stephen Lewis, the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa.
2003
Educating Lucia
Part 25 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Focuses on the
story of three African sisters who want to graduate to secondary school but are more likely to
receive no formal education, working as seasonal laborers on one of Zimbabwe's large tobacco
farms. They're being raised by their grandmother who can only afford school fees for one girl. In
African countries such as Zimbabwe, Uganda and Benin the odds are dramatically against girls
getting an education.
Uganda
Zimbabwe