| London Gangs - UK - 560 sec
Mar 2008
Over 190 different gangs are engaged in battles across London's poorest areas. And the gang members are getting increasingly younger. Why is a highly developed country losing control of its youth?
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Tags: London Gangs Guns Knives Violence Race Police Drugs Music Rap Brixton Journeyman Pictures
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| One World, Many Dreams - China - 843 sec
July 2008
Across China the spirit of the Olympics is alive. Chinese are proud, $70 Billion poorer, and in celebration. Some take celebration to the extreme. Take for example the man who had the Olympic symbol tattooed across his forehead. Then there's the policeman who taught himself multiple foreign languages. He's determined to be of the utmost assistance to the Olympics visitors. Or the guy who's spent years cycling around China on a bicycle which mirrors the Olympic rings.
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Tags: China Olympics Bizarre Journeyman Pictures
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| Amazon's Jungle Warfare - Brazil - 1559 sec
July 2008
After years of decreased logging, the land-grabbers and profiteers are returning to the Amazon basin. Timber companies claim areas of forest, burn villages, fell trees and sell on the land as pasture.
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Tags: Amazon Logging Deforestation Tree Environment Journeyman Pictures
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| Cyprus Drought - Cyprus - 612 sec
July 2008
Following a succession of droughts in Cyprus, water has become a rare luxury for many residents. Is the water being shipped from Greece enough to significantly tackle this problem?
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Tags: Drought Water Holiday Cyprus Journeyman Pictures
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| The Day The Schools Fell Down - China - 1037 sec
July 2008
On May 12th an earthquake shook the Sichuan Province. Hundreds of schools collapsed, killing thousands of pupils. Parents are asking why did the schools fall when other buildings withstood the quake?
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Tags: Earthquake China School Children Death Journeyman Pictures
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| The Genocide Insider - Sudan - 549 sec
July 2008
In an exclusive report we speak to a Sudan army insider who for the first time reveals the brutal tactics used by the government in Darfur. This is why the Sudanese leader has been charged with war crimes.
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Tags: Genocide Killing Sudan Darfur Governement Army Journeyman Pictures
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| Contempt Of Conscience - 51min Documentary - 385 sec
See full film here: http://www.booserver.com/projects.php?ProjectID=3167
July 2008
Can you and I take on the state and win? Should we be able to redirect some of our tax to stop our money from causing bloodshed? 'Contempt of Conscience' explores the idea that each of us is being conscripted to kill through our taxes. Filmed over five years, we follow The Peace Tax Seven as they fight through the courts to redirect 10% of their taxes from military to peaceful uses. The doc combines striking visual archive with the David and Goliath struggle of the Peace Tax Seven.
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Tags: tax Military peace Seven England Government Journeyman Pictures
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| Minke On The Menu - Iceland - 935 sec
July 2008
Sustainable whaling has a long history in Iceland; however there are still a number of vocal dissenters who view the nation's return to whaling as backward and irresponsible. For the past two decades, pressure from anti-whaling nations like Australia has kept whalers tied up and out of commission. Throughout that time Iceland has been putting its case for sustainable whaling, based on the large increases in local whale stocks.
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Tags: Whaling Minke Iceland Journeyman Pictures
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| Cluster Bombs - Ireland - 1450 sec
July 2008
They hang from trees, they lay where children can pick them up and they kill and maim indiscriminately years after a conflict has ended. We're talking about those awful cluster bombs. In Dublin, more than a hundred nations sat down to thrash out a ban on this most insidious of weapons. Watching proceedings closely were 300 cluster bomb survivors and anti-bomb activists from around the globe, including an Australian called John Rodsted. This report follows Rodsted on the road in Ireland, where he clearly had the Australian Government squarely in his sights.
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Tags: War Cluster Bombs Dublin Government Protest John Rodsted Journeyman Pictures
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| China's Young Athletes - China - 1904 sec
July 2008
The young athletes of China have a great opportunity, the chance to win an Olympic medal in their home country. But with great opportunity, comes enormous pressure. The young athletes at No 6 Middleschool in Lanzhou, one of China's poorest provinces, have an exhausting training and school programme. Some students start training from 5:30am and then there are fourteen hours of school programmes per day. Many of the athletes here come from poor farming families. They hope that sport will be their chance not only to compete in the Olympics, but also to have a better future.
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Tags: China Olympics Athletes School Children Journeyman Pictures
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| The Global Doctors - 35-min Documentary - 609 sec
Sep 1998The IMF was created at the end of W.W.II to oversee exchange rates and to offer countries loans through tough cash flow crises. Today the IMF has adopted a far more significant role and has become the financial policeman of the world, bullying and begging countries to institute harsh economic policies in order that they might repay their debts, mostly to the IMF. And as America continues to bask in huge wealth and affluence the rest of the world teeters on the brink of economic collapse. The supremacy of the US over the global economy is thanks in large measure to their dominance of the IMF. They've used this influence to exert pressure on international markets to reform. But there are many who accuse the IMF of acting less like an honest broker and more like the corrupt businessmen who initially caused the disasters. During the boom years the IMF looked the other way as corruption flourished around the world. Now the allegation is that multi-billion dollar IMF bail-outs are helping the same businesses which prospered under crony capitalism.
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Tags: IMF Globalisation Capitalism WTO Trade Justice Economy Journ
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| The Body Piercers - 45-min Documentary - 609 sec
Sep 1998
As an expression of urban feeling at the end of the millennium the body piercers are emerging everywhere. Dismissed by many as social misfits, their pierces and tattoos supposedly mark them out as drug addicts and lazy youth. But this is a social movement. Anarchy as mission statement. Body piercing as uniform.
Lurking in the heart of Lisbon's sleepy suburbs is a crucible for anarchy. Behind the classy façade of this town house there are a bunch of people looking for an alternative to the 9 to 5, the mortgage and the kids. It's a mixed bag. Paulo and Joanna are here because they got into debt: a normal life turned sour. They're trying to spruce the Place up. In the courtyard there's Rat. An ageing alcoholic, he just doesn't get it. Why would people live in a house with no running water when they could do better? He's happy though, they let him stay in the house with all his bad habits. After all anarchists have to live and let live...
Miguel is starting a revolution. "I look at people, at the bourgeoisie, and their stuff is no good. They are slaves of everything they have, they have to maintain all the shit that surrounds them, the little car, the house in the nice area...they have to feed all of it, all those vices". Through his music he wants to turn people against the consumer culture that binds them. Railing about MacDonalds is just the beginning!
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Tags: Body Piercers harm social misfits bourgeoisie revolution materialism needle fashion Journeyman Pictures
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| Inside 'One Nation' - 35-min Documentary - 609 sec
Aug 1998
Exclusive behind-the-scenes access to Pauline Hanson and her 'One Nation' party.
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Tags: Pauline Hanson Australia commentary analysis One Nation racism immigration state right wing Journeyman Pictures
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| A Dictator Bows out - 42-min Documentary - 609 sec
May 1998
This dramatic film charts blow by blow the fall of a dictator.
On the morning of May 21st, 1998, students crowd around the TV in the parliament they have occupied to hear President Suharto announce his resignation. Amid cheers, cries and prayers, a dictator was gone. On May 12th, six young men were shot dead by the army. A day later, Jakarta - Indonesia, was on fire. A total of 4,000 shops and supermarkets were burned down or looted. Over 400 bodies were found. Muslim leader Dr Amien Rais tells nervous parliamentarians Suharto must go. Right outside the students have begun their occupation of the parliament. When Rais emerges, he's greeted like a hero. That night there is a powerful and emotive mass memorial for the students killed at Trisakti. Tense days follow as the world waits for Suharto to strike back. Respected Muslim leader, Abdurachman Wahid pleads with the President. The constitution would protect him, Suharto told him. On May 20th Amien Rais tells his supporters not to demonstrate. The students in the parliament decide to remain inside. Many of the aging Suharto's old cronies urge him to step down. But not until 17 ministers offer their resignation does he get the message. 'He was a crook, a hypocrite' says Amien Rais.
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Tags: President Suharto commentary analysis documentary Indonesia Religion Journeyman Pictures
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| Suharto Fights Back - 46-min Documentary - 609 sec
April 1998
A strong film on the anti-Suharto protests and the army's support for him in the days before he stepped down.
After devastating and deadly riots in Indonesia the question on everybody's lips is whether the people can convince the army to join them. We have an exclusive interview with one of the country's most powerful military men, General Prabowo, who has been linked with the Muslim 'Green' faction which wants to seize power for itself. Amien Rais, leader of the 28 million strong opposition Muhammadiyah party, talks of the strength of his supporters to force Suharto to clean up his act. The head of the IMF in Jakarta tells of his frustrations in dealing with Suharto. The IMF demanded that some of the nepotism and cronyism stop, but Suharto has clearly been consolidating his family's position. His daughter Titiek rebuts questions with a regal air. Her multi-billion plan to build the world's longest bridge was blocked by the IMF. In a multi-story car park the military prepare for another food riot. Mothers are arrested as they protest about the soaring cost of baby milk. They hand the soldiers flowers as a symbol of 'People's Power', the Philippines movement where the army sided with the people to topple the President.
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Tags: Indonesia Suharto Anti General Prabowo IMF Muslim Power Journeyman Pictures
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| Asian Values Devalued - 38-min documentary - 609 sec
June 1998
From the skyscrapers of Hong Kong to the ransacked streets of Jakarta, the Asian Renaissance is over.
From the skyscrapers of Hong Kong to the ransacked streets of Jakarta, the Asian Renaissance is over. Construction has stopped, unemployment has risen, food prices and inflation have soared. Throughout the 90's the whole region pursued unchecked economic growth and first world status. But Asia's economic miracle was built on a shaky foundation. Behind the massive expansion lurked political values from the Middle Ages. The World Bank President sums the boom up: 'it had over-lending, corruption, cronyism, banks lending to its shareholders. Now, there's a comeuppance.'
Indonesia's financial ruin was the catalyst for its social collapse. Suharto stands accused of plundering the nation's wealth, crushing those who protested. He ignored the extent of his country's economic crisis, and continued to reward his children and swarms of sycophants with unjust riches. But recent weeks saw Indonesians send their ruler a powerful message: the old values don't count. Almost like lightening, the world's second longest dictator stood down.
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Tags: commentary analysis Asia Renaissance China Tiger economy Honk Kong Jakarta Journeyman Pictures
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| Atomic Wounds - 53 min Documentary - 614 sec
See full film here: http://www.booserver.com/projects.php?ProjectID=3154
June 2008
At 89, Doctor Hida, a survivor of the 1945 atomic bomb at Hiroshima,
continues to care for some of the other quarter of a million survivors.
Atomic Wounds retraces his dedicated journey and highlights how the
terrible danger of radiation was concealed by successive American
administrations in the 50's - 70's so that nuclear power could be freely
developed, with no concern for public health.
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Tags: Hiroshima Nuclear Bomb Cancer Journeyman Pictures
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| The Lost Children - 52 min Documentary - 609 sec
May 1996
A hugely sensitive reporter weaves a magic tale of Angola's 100,000 street children, separated from their families by the war. These little vagabonds teach us how to survive in one of the most dangerous countries on earth - Angola. With ragged T-shirts, bare feet, scabby-knees and wide-eyes, they admit that they feast on other people's garbage.
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Tags: Children Homeless Angola Streets Journeyman Pictures
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| Dying for Euthanasia - 44min Documentary - 611 sec
July 1996
The sad case of a dying man and his controversial doctor in the Northern Territory, Australia, where euthanasia first became legal.
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Tags: Euthanasia Australia Dying Old Journeyman Pictures
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| When Spies Fight - 45-min Documentary - 609 sec
Merv Jenkins was the Australian intelligence Organisation's senior man in Washington. A key part of his role was to liase and swap information with American intelligence agencies such as the CIA.
During East Timor's breakaway from Indonesia in mid 99 the CIA was desperate for more information on the Indonesia-controlled militias running rampant in East Timor. The Americans used their contacts with Jenkins and put him under extreme pressure to pass over secret Australian intelligence to Washington.
The information Jenkins passed to the Americans came to light in Australian defence circles. An investigation was mounted and he was accused of passing secrets to his US allies. He faced a prison sentence and the ruin of a prestigious career. In desperation he chose to take his own life.
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Tags: Marv Jenkins Australian Intelligence Organisation CIA US Journeyman Pictures
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