Archive for the ‘Current Affairs’ Category
A year in a nation in crisis. In one of his last interviews, Hisham Al Hashimi, Iraq’s foremost security expert, described the resurgence of IS as an al-Qaeda-like insurgency. Three weeks after this interview, on July 6th 2020, Al Hashimi was murdered in front of his home in Baghdad. This incident caused shockwaves – and…
‘careful, dignified and gruelling’ – The Guardian There have been over 1700 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse against UN peacekeepers in the last 15 years. Ramita Navai reveals why it keeps happening despite UN promises to stamp it out. (Channel 4 2018) Produced and Directed by Sam Collyns Produced and Reported by Ramita Navai…
“Soul-shrivelling to hear about the resurgence of the far right in a country you hoped had been innoculated against it for all time by the horrors of the Holocaust” The Guardian Violent right wing extremism in Germany has surged to its highest level since the downfall of the Third Reich – with a record number of…
For the first time, cameras go inside a police station run by and for women, revealing a unique perspective on what’s really going on in Indian society. Following the Delhi rape case in December 2012, hundreds of these police stations were set up across India. Parmila Dalal is second-in-command at the Women Police Station in…
***** “One tale of heartbreak makes moving television, the same tale repeated over and over becomes a national travesty…this real scandal has to be investigated” The Daily Mail “It was as if the Church and State were taking revenge for the Sixties…..expect a sequel to this awful story” The Daily Telegraph In the 30 years after…
In August 2013 Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum were jailed for six years and eight months each for trying to smuggle 1.5 million pounds worth of cocaine from Peru to Spain. Their arrest highlighted that Peru has taken over from Colombia as the cocaine capital of the world. This remarkable documentary has secured unprecedent access…
Winner of International Emmy 2016 for Best Current Affairs / Winner of Royal Television Society Award 2016 for Best International Current Affairs Film/ Winner of Amnesty International’s 2015 Award for Best Human Rights Documentary/ Winner of Broadcast Award 2016 for Best News & Current Affairs Programme/ Nominated for a Bafta Award 2016 for Best Current Affairs…
“inspiring” Sunday Times “heartening, sometimes shocking” Daily Mail “The amazing story of Ade Adepitan, who went back to Nigeria to find out why he got polio there” Bill Gates on Twitter “Making this film has changed my life. It was always very personal territory for me. When the polio virus attacked me as…
Finalist, The Rory Peck Award for Features 2012 “another fascinating film from the exemplary This World strand” The Times Early in 2011 millions of Egyptians came together to bring down President Hosni Mubarak in what became the defining moment of the ‘Arab Spring’. Children of the Revolution followed three of the young revolutionaries…
Winner of the 2009 News and Documentary Emmy award Neda Agha Soltan became the international symbol of protest after the disputed elections in Iran in June 2009 when her death was caught on a phone camera and uploaded onto the internet. This film pieces together the story of her death in the context of…
“all the hopes and fears about immigration are perfectly condensed in this documentary” Sunday Times “thoughtful report” Daily Mail “well-timed documentary” Telegraph The Invasion of Lampedusa charts how a crisis on a tiny island in the middle of the Mediterranean is changing the face of immigration in Europe. In the wake of the ‘Arab…
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