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The 7Up Series
In 1964 Granada Television's World in Action team set out to test the theory - are children's lives already mapped out for them at the tender age of seven? Are their futures determined by their upbringing and what can they really tell us about the environment in which they are growing up? This was the start of a remarkable series which returns every seven years to document the group. Directed by Michael Apted. ©Granada Media
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CHINA INSIDE
Contemporary China, seen through the eyes of her people. Remarkable. Unexpected. A compelling insight into China's achievements and controversies. China Inside is a landmark new series that opens the door to China's people, revealing what life is really like in this eternally fascinating country. Shot in High Definition, this ground-breaking programme shows first hand the challenges faced by 1.3 billion Chinese at a time when the eyes of the world are on their country's rapid economic growth and increasing influence.Emmy award winning documentary filmmaker Jonathan Lewis and his team have been granted unprecedented access by the Chinese government to film across the country, including Tibet and Muslim Xinjiang, and to interview its people at every level. But while the access is official, much of what emerges is anything but. The lives of China's people are being shaped and shaken by dramatic changes: social, economic, environmental, personal. They are all striving for prosperity, but only some will benefit from it. Speaking with passion and frankness, their stories are revelatory and moving. 4 x 56 minute programs Written, produced and directed by Jonathan Lewis A Granada and KQED Production © 2006 Granada International China Inside Series Set of 4 DVD's $297.00 BRD191 or DVDs available individually $88.00 each |
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China Inside-Power And The People The opening episode features the political power structure of China, with incredible access to the process at all levels. The programme gets complete access to a village election, including revealing interviews with local electors, filming inside the National People's Congress and getting remarkable access to Party meetings and activities. For the first time ever, a television crew is allowed to film along the Kazakhstan border with the Chinese military, and inside prison to speak to a corrupt official reprieved from a death sentence. Interviewees also include the Governor of Xinjiang Autonomous Region and the Deputy Governor of Tibet.' (56 minutes) DVD format $88.00 BRD192 |
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China Inside-Women Of The Country Dealing with economic necessities in China means ordinary men and women are forced to make heartbreaking personal sacrifices. This emotional episode examines women's lives, fears and aspirations, highlights the pressures on women from the State's 'One Child Policy', and reveals the terrible statistic that China has the highest suicide rate for women in the world. The programme follows a migrant couple returning to their home village to see their children after a year long absence, and includes heartbreaking stories from Tibetan women as well as extraordinary coverage of a wedding that turns ugly. (56 minutes) DVD format $88.00 BRD193 |
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China Inside-Nature China's economic growth is making headlines around the world, but at what cost to the land and its citizens? This episode examines the issue of pollution, revealing how badly polluted rivers are causing cancer in the local populations and how the drastic water shortages are leading to the biggest engineering project in world history. It will cut new rivers across China and force hundreds of thousands of people out of their homes. In the face of this, a new wave of fearless eco-warriors are risking death threats to fight for a green environment. (56 minutes) DVD format $88.00 BRD194 |
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China Inside-Freedom And Justice How free are the Chinese people? Where can they go for justice? Startling answers take the series into Tibetan temples, law courts and Aids villages to meet aggrieved farmers, fearless campaigners, legal reformers and victims of injustice. Extraordinary scenes show growing levels of disorder as the state tries to maintain stability. Outspoken interviewees, from angry, evicted tenants to the Minister of Information wrestle with how to make China fair as well as prosperous. (56 minutes) DVD format $88.00 BRD195 |
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CROSSROADS
- The Immigration Saga in the European Union Crossroads documents the largest movement of people in the history of modern day Europe and examines the impact of actions being taken by governments in the EU to tackle deep-seated racism. Convincing the public that they are not being over-run by 'bogus' refugees is an uphill battle. Ethnic groups are determined to survive in Europe as communities with their own cultural or religious identity. With in-depth research, on-location filming across the EU, interviews with policy makers and immigration experts, and reports from inside the immigrant communities, the series presents a revealing insight into the issues associated with large scale immigration. 6 x 26 minute episodes Produced and directed by Wilson R Ruiz ©2006 MSD Global Set of 2 DVDs $286.00 MSD201 or available individually, $165.00 each volume CROSSROADS Volume 1 Episode 1 - No Colour Immigration is one of the most politically explosive and socially divisive issues facing the countries of the European Union. It has stirred economic uncertainties and heightened racial and xenophobic hostilities. This episodes looks at: Victims of racism, Racism in football, Islamaphobia, Muslim and Christian beliefs, The European Union relations with the Islamic world, Immigration and politics in the European Union, Riots in France, Elections in the United Kingdom. Episode 2 - Inside the European Union The European Union has to come up with a common immigration policy for all the EU countries. Issues discussed include: Europeans come together, How does the EU work, The European constitution, The European Union expands eastward, Bulgaria and Romania join the EU, The road to a common EU immigration policy, Elections to the European parliament, How citizens see the European parliament. Episode 3 - Help Wanted To help fuel economic growth and face the new challenges of globalisation, economists say the European Union needs immigration. This episode covers: Guest workers programs, Policies and laws to deal with immigrant workers, Attracting and keeping highly skilled workers, Poverty in the European Union countries, Helping young immigrants stay in school, Self-employed immigrants, Immigrant workers chasing their dreams, Job security in a globalised economy. DVD Format $165.00 MSD202 |
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CROSSROADS Volume 2 Episode 4 - Human Trafficking Many European governments are discovering that their attempts to control migration have the counter productive effect of creating a market for people trafficking, which has become the growth business of organised crime. This episode looks closely at the following: Women smuggled into the EU for prostitution, The Victim Witness Program, Going after the traffickers, Corruption at the border, Border control, Migrants assault barriers at the southern border, Stop migrants in North Africa, Traffickers open new routes, Repatriation of illegal immigrants. Episode 5 - Identities Throughout the European Union the key issue now is to integrate immigrants into the culture of the country they have chosen to live in, but everywhere multiculturalism and diversity are part of every day life. This episode discusses: Multiculturalism and football, European gay identity, Muslim women in the EU, Muslim identity in the EU, Living in two worlds, Curry - the UK's national dish, Ethnic groups claim their own cultural space, The Turkish presence in Germany. Episode 6 - Stop the Flow If the European Union wants to help stop the massive flow of international migration it will have to increase development assistance, help integrate poor countries into the global trading system, and be better prepared to prevent conflict and keep the peace in trouble spots around the world. This episode looks at: What pushes people to migrate, How the EU can help strengthen democracy in the Third World, Why the global war on poverty is failing, Fair trade, How the EU is doubling assistance to Africa, The role of the private sector, European human rights volunteers, The EU in the Middle East peace process, The young and the restless in Morocco. DVD Format $165.00 MSD203 |
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GLOBAL CITIES
A DVD series documenting the impact of immigration on the globalisation process. No wall or barrier is strong enough to stop immigrants as they cross international borders on a journey to where the action is – the global cities. ©2003 Media Source Direct and Cadec Pictures Set of 5 x 25 minute programs DVD Format (5 discs) $297.00 TPD103 or available individually, $66.00 each program. |
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New York – The World’s City New York is a city of immigrants, the early ones were so integrated they almost completely lost their ethnic identity in the great American melting pot. The latest wave, mostly from developing countries, are attempting to preserve their ethnic heritage and still do well within American society. But no matter where you come from, in New York you feel that nothing is unwelcome, and nothing altogether impossible. DVD Format $66.00 TPD104 |
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Tokyo – The Neon City Even though Tokyo outwardly seems westernised, unlike Western global cities, Tokyo remains a city without a visible foreign population, the result of government policy and very tight immigration rules. But globalisation is producing a rapid awakening to the fact that global engagement and interdependency are a fact of life. With Japan’s aging population and low birth rate, it is only a matter of time before the country is faced with social and political strains over the issue of immigration. DVD Format $66.00 TPD105 |
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London – The Imperial City London is the world’s financial capital, attracting investors and entrepreneurs like a magnet. It is also attracting thousands of immigrants in search of good wages and a better future. The racial and religious multi-dimension is making many people concerned that British way of life is being eclipsed. Politicians have tried to relegate immigration to the margins but extremist groups are making political capital from racial hatred. Integrating into a multicultural London will require movement by all parties. But is there a contradiction between retaining a distinct cultural identity and feeling a sense of belonging with Britain? DVD Format $66.00 TPD106 |
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Frankfurt – The Euro City Frankfurt is the hub of the new German economy and a global financial centre. As such it has the largest foreign population in Germany, but right-wing politicians are pandering to xenophobic attitudes to win voters. However, their alarmist rhetoric is being countered by another strongly held view that Germany needs immigrants to ensure its future economic growth. Those who can show their skills are needed are welcomed but the zero growth immigration policy of the last quarter century has encouraged the trade in smuggling illegal immigrants. DVD Format $66.00 TPD107 |
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Mexico City – The Impossible City As opposed to most global cities, where migrants come from other countries, the face of Mexico City is being changed by millions of Indian migrants who have come from other regions in Mexico. Economic growth in Mexico, at around 6.5 percent a year is strong and attracting foreign investors, but globalization has sharply increased the disparity between rich and poor. Mexico is not a poor country without resources, but has a bad system of distributing wealth. DVD Format $66.00 TPD108 |
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THE GLOBAL NOMAD - CHINA
Irish brothers Manchán and Ruán Magan travel to the far corners filming documentaries about people and cultures of the world that reach far beyond the ordinary. Their perspective is challenging and fresh, providing an intimate engagement with those who lives are beyond our daily experience. The programs explore and celebrate the diversity of the human race and challenge the western notion that the West is best. They examine how people and cultures are coping with the ever-changing world, and explore the question “what if, despite all the obvious differences between societies and cultures, we are all basically the same?” The Global Nomad - China offers an absorbing look at the modern face of China, one of the oldest surviving cultures on earth. Produced by Manchán & Ruán Magan, directed by Ruán Magan. A Wonderland Production © 2003 Beyond International 6 x 26 minute episodes DVD Format (Set of 2 discs) $220.00 BYD107 or available individually |
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The Global Nomad - China Volume 1 Episode 1 An overview of modern China. Presenter Manchán Magan travels from the Great Wall to Beijing and then south to Qu'fu, the birthplace of Confucian philosophy, the bedrock of Chinese culture and perspective. Further south is the town of Ta'an, an ancient Buddhist monastery in Shaolin, and to the west, the mighty Yangtse River. Episode 2 The Great Dam being built half way up the river Yangtse, is the most monumental, infrastructure project ever undertaken by humankind. This program explores the Dam's potential effects for the people along the banks of the River, some of China's peasant population who, numbering 1 billion people, are the single largest disenfranchised people on earth. Episode 3 West from the Great Dam is Yunnan Province, bordering on Tibet. Bounded by the snow capped Himalayas, Yunnan is the source of the great Yangtse and also home to 52 of China's 56 distinct ethnic groups. Manchán Magan talks with three minority cultures who are still thriving after centuries of persecution, including the Mosu, one of the last surviving matriarchal cultures in the world. Duration 78 minutes DVD Format (3 episodes) $132.00 BYD108 |
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The Global Nomad - China Volume 2 Episode 4 North west from Yunnan is the Xinjiang Province. Although its capital, Urumqi is 3000 miles from Beijing, the clocks here remain set to Beijing time. China desperately needs to control this harsh region and is migrating millions of people out there to colonise the under populated Gobi Desert. But Xinjiang is quite distinct from modern China, closer to Afghanistan than Shanghai, the people mostly Muslim Kazaks and Uighers. It is both one of the hottest and coldest regions on the planet. Episode 5 Taiwan -is it truly another culture and country or simply a small local province of China? Despite having no real international standing, Taiwan is the 18th wealthiest economy in the world with an extraordinary history. Travelling through the island, Margan discovers an extraordinary element of Taiwan's history. Thousands of years ago it was colonised by Polynesian people whose ancestors still live in underground typhoon proof dwellings and sing the songs of their culture. Episode 6 As China reaches out to the rest of the world, it faces an internal struggle between the traditional forces attempting to sustain China's ancient culture and the ever increasing capitalist tendencies of the new Chinese generation. It is an almost impossible challenge in the face of an ever-liberating economy and fresh engagement with the world. Presenter Manchán Magan visits Tongli, one of China's few remaining traditional towns and contrasts it with Shanghai, the most western of all China's cities. Somewhere between the two lies the real China of the 21st Century. Duration 78 minutes DVD Format (3 episodes) $132.00 BYD109 |
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THE GLOBAL NOMAD - MIDDLE EAST
Irish brothers Manchán and Ruán Magan travel to the far corners filming documentaries about people and cultures of the world that reach far beyond the ordinary. Presenter Manchán Magan's perspective is challenging and fresh, providing an intimate engagement with those who lives are beyond our daily experience. The programs explore and celebrate the diversity of the human race and challenge the western notion that the West is best. They examine how people and cultures are coping with the ever-changing world, and explore the question “what if, despite all the obvious differences between societies and cultures, we are all basically the same?” The Global Nomad - Middle East Manchán Magan provides fascinating glimpses into the civilisations, cultures and people of Turkey, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt. Produced by Manchán & Ruán Magan, directed by Ruán Magan. A Wonderland Production ©2001 Beyond International 6 x 26 minute programs DVD Format (Set of 6 discs) $297.00 BYD100 or DVDs available individually |
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The Global Nomad - Turkey Turkey has always existed as a bridge between the west and the east and today that pressure is greater than ever as it courts the favour of the European Union. Magan travels overland from Istanbul, once the capital of the Byzantine Empire, visiting the troglodyte churches and cities where the early Christians hid first from the Roman Empire and then from Islam. Then onto Adana, Turkey's largest contemporary mosque and to the western edges of ancient Mesopotamia, Turkey's fertile farming region, where nomadic Kurds work for a few dollars a week harvesting the crops. Antakya, ancient Antioch, the church where Saint Peter is reputed to have said the first mass, is a timely reminder that the Middle East was the birthplace of Christianity. Judaism and Islam were also founded in this region and today the tensions between the three great monotheistic regions remain evident. DVD Format $55.00 BYD101 |
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The Global Nomad - Syria At first glance the Arab world seems at odds with our western culture. It is difficult to come to terms with the male dominated society where women exist as second class citizens and where the order of each day is controlled by the call to prayer. But Syria is a beautiful land inhabited by friendly people always ready to embrace the visitor with an open heart. Magan travels to Hama, a modern town built on the graves of 25,000 people who were massacred by the Assad regime after an attempted revolt in 1972. Crac de Chevaliers, one of the best preserved Crusader fortresses stands as a reminder of the many 1000s of Arabs slaughtered by the Crusaders in the name of God. An Islamic sheikh explains some of the similarities between Islam and Christianity. Far out in the desert stands one of best preserved remains of the classical world, Palmyra and to the south, one of the few remaining Christian towns in the region is enjoying a Pentecostal parade. DVD Format $55.00 BYD102 |
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The Global Nomad - Beirut to Bethlehem Beirut, South Lebanon, The Golan Heights, Palestine - these names will resound forever with the tragedies of the past four decades. Symbolically Beirut is undergoing a massive redevelopment that in time will plaster over the cracks of civil war. Just a short journey to the north, is the birthplace of Kahlil Kibrain, poet and writer of the great romantic tome, The Prophet. In a Palestinian refugee camp near the town of Tyre where Jonah was spat from the belly of the whale, the great challenge facing the region is clear - three generations of displaced people live in dire economic circumstances. Confined to the camps, they have very little opportunity to build new lives. In South Lebanon, presenter Magan visits a town hit by an Israeli phosphorous bomb killing 120 people, the Golan Heights where villages and cities have been reduced to ghost towns and then onto Israel and Palestine and the film's final destination Bethlehem. DVD Format $55.00 BYD103 |
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The Global Nomad - Israel Compared to the rest of the region Israel is something of a miracle. They have made the land fertile through hard work and irrigation. Magan visits one of the earliest kibbutzes and talks with one of its founders. In Tel Aviv the country's youth enjoy a lifestyle at odds with the principles of orthodox Jews. Israel is a country of stark contrasts, with an immense national pride that suggests an accommodation with their Arab neighbours will be difficult to achieve. In Masada at dawn, the warrior's cry that the town will never fall rings as true today as it did two millennia ago. On Yom Kippur the country comes to a halt as the nation remembers its past. DVD Format $55.00 BYD104 |
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The Global Nomad - Jordan Long before Jew, Christian or Muslim arrived in the Middle East the nomadic Bedouin roamed the deserts and remain there today. Jordan is home to millions of Bedouin although the majority have migrated to the cities leaving their nomadic life behind them. Presenter Manchán Magan travels south through Jordan exploring the arid landscape of the Bedouin people. The Rift Valley stretches as far as Ethiopia - the primary migration root of our earliest ancestors. In Wadi Rum, Margan spends a few days with a Bedouin family where the modern pressures on nomadic life are becoming difficult to resist. The camel is being replaced by the 4x4 pickup and the Bedouin children are attending school where they learn English with pride. It remains to be seen whether this unique way of life will be sustainable over coming decades. DVD Format $55.00 BYD105 |
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The Global Nomad - Egypt In the final program, Margan retraces Moses' footsteps across the Red Sea to the Sinai Desert where one of Christianity's oldest and most impressive monastries. Saint Catherine's Monastery has remained intact and un-violated since it was founded in the 4th Century AD. Behind it rises Mount Sinai where Moses found the Ten Commandments. Arriving in Cairo is a culture shock - a city of millions of people, countless religions, cultures and architectural styles. Deep in the heart of the city is the City of the Dead, a massive 400-year-old graveyard that has become home to thousands of people forced to find a home there because of the overcrowding of the city. Following the Nile, historically a primary source of life, Margan visits the great pyramids at Giza. At the Burqash Camel market, camel traders have marched their animals to Egypt from the Sudan and Ethiopia, following a well-worn track that has existed since humanity first wandered out of Africa. DVD Format $55.00 BYD106 |
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INSIDE THE TALIBAN For centuries, Afghans have resisted and endured occupying armies, from the Greek armies of Alexander the Great, to Genghis Khan’s Mongols. More recently the Russians and now America and its allies. After expelling the occupying Russian army, the Taliban took control of government under the direction of the charismatic Mullah Mohammad Omah. Promising to remake Afghanistan into a peaceful Islamic utopia, the Taliban instead presided over one of the darkest periods in Afghanistan’s bleak history. All but ignored by America until the fateful attacks of 9-11, the Taliban were the first casualty of the War on Terror. They were swept from power and left for dead, but today the Taliban are back and now threaten to plunge the whole region into chaos again. (96 minutes) Produced and directed by David Keane. A Wild Eyes Production | ||||||
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