Nearly 2, 00, 000 farmers have committed suicide in India over the last 10 years. But the mainstream media hardly reflects this. Nero´s Guests is a story about India’s agrarian crisis and the growing inequality seen through the work of the Rural Affairs Editor of Hindu newspaper, P Sainath. Through sustained coverage of the farm crisis, Sainath and his colleagues created the national agenda, compelling a government in denial to take notice and act. Through his writings and lectures, Sainath makes us confront the India we don’t want to see, and provokes us to think about who ‘Nero’s Guests’ are in today’s world.
In 2001, the New England Patriots won Super Bowl XXXVI in the biggest Super Bowl upset in more than thirty years. When the 2003 season began with their prized free-agent acquisition of the summer injured for the year, the release of their defensive captain, and a humbling 31-0 loss to division rival Buffalo Bills, no one believed a second championship was possible. Except for the Patriots.
Collection of songs performed at the "Frank Sinatra Spectacular," a 1965 benefit by the various members of the Rat Pack.
A description of the various activities of Gala Day held annually at Durham when the miners and their families come to town.
National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).
David Blaine will redefine magic once again for an unprecedented live event at a time when the world could use a positive distraction.
Collaborative documentary (credited to a committee rather than to individual filmmakers) detailing the CND march from London to Aldermaston at Easter 1958.
Impressions of a typical weekend in Blackburn in the early 1960s.
Go deep inside one of the most recognizable gay porn stars of all time. This exciting doc takes you behind-the-scenes to get a glimpse at the real life of François Sagat.
Even frequent visitors to Venice, the lagoon city still offers numerous hidden sides that are worth discovering. The historical significance of some places cannot be read in any travel guide.
Michael Wood explores village life in 14th century England, a time of plague, war and famine. Through the use of a remarkably complete set of documentary records, he explores one village - that of Codicote in Hertfordshire - looking at its boom times and its poorer times. Wood brings the period to life by focusing in on one family, that of the poor peasant Christina Cok, her father Hugh, her estranged husband William, and her children John and Alice. By looking at the poorest members of Codicote's society, Wood approaches his history from the bottom-up rather than taking the traditional historical approach of top-down, 'kings and barons' story-telling.
Radical resistance in the postwar British Caribbean community, from the 1948 Nationality Act to the 1958 Brixton riots.
Special documentary examining the death of Joy Gardner in 1993 and the subsequent public campaign that culminated in the trial at the Old Bailey of those accused of causing her death.
Who Killed Colin Roach? is Isaac Julien's first film, which reflects upon the death of Colin Roach, a 23 year old who was shot at the entrance of a police station in East London, in 1982. Even though the police claimed Roach had commited suicide, evidence showed otherwise. Isaac Julien says that this work is essentially a response to the riots, an answer to certain fixed ways of looking at black cultures, but also at those ways we might feel about ourselves.
Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.
Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.
The various work posts within the complex Physics and Engineering laboratory, and some of their work results across the five continents, in tunnels, bridges, dams and hydroelectric plants.
Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.