Globalisation has brought about the collapse of industrial cities like Philadelphia and the deprivation that results. But some companies like Martin Guitars are able to buck the trend.
Roma communities in Europe have been subjected to centuries of persecution and racism. They are denied the chance to work, proper housing, healthcare and their children refused a decent education. But a new initiative – the Decade of Roma Inclusion has been established to protect these people.
In the early 1970s Liberation Films set up projects around London working with the new portable video technology. This is the story of what happened in Balham, south London.
One step behind the queen. A profile of the Duke of Edinburgh for ITV’s biography series.
A series of films about couples who fall in love across racial, religious and political divides.
In this series the film we made in Belfast about a couple, he a catholic and she a protestant was the only one where we had to keep their identities secret for fear of retribution.
A series of films about couples who fall in love across racial, religious and political divides.
Mixed marriages between Israeli Jews and Muslims was extremely rare at this time. Farouk and Ettie were struggling to keep their relationship alive in a bitterly divided country.
Anna and Sebastian – she from West Berlin, he from the East – fell in love and were able to marry. Sebastian was then allowed to move to the west. Ironically, soon after this the Berlin Wall came down. Their story is documented in the film Love Across the Wall. Now in west Berlin the love they share is as strong as ever but the couple are struggling to survive in a competitive Western culture and economy.
Fanie is Afrikaans from a traditional Conservative Party background. Julia is Pedi, from the countryside to the north of Johannesburg. After much difficulty, hostility from Fanie’s family and suspicion in the black community, they were able to marry and are now expecting their first child. They are hopeful for a good life together in the new South Africa.
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was charged with the slaughter of thousands of Muslims and Croats. Maggie O’Kane goes in search of one of the most wanted men in Europe.
Maggie O’Kane investigates the role of Serb President Slobodan Milosevic in the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
Maggie O’Kane returns to Iraq five years after Desert Storm to try to understand why she was not able to report the war freely and to investigate some of the stories which simply didn’t stand up.
Young athletes in Sierra Leone are training to be allowed to compete in the Athens Olympic Games. Made for Storeyville on BBC2.
Anna is from West Berlin, Sebastian from the East of the city. They fell in love when Anna was touring with a theatre company and resolved to marry. This was one of the few ways of leaving the East legally. Then, soon after they come to West Berlin, the Wall that has divided the city for so long came down.
Mixed-race relationships were rare at his time in Germany so this film about Pat and Joe and their family living in Sheffield was an unusual experience for viewers on German television.
Transylvania is a wild and beautiful land, forever associated in peoples’ minds with vampires and Count Dracula. It is also rich in Romanian and Hungarian folk culture. In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Bloc tension is rising between the two communities.
Simon Harvey was gay; he was also a Christian. Shortly after his 26th birthday he killed himself, unable to reconcile his sexuality with his religion. In this film we meet his family and friends in an attempt to understand why.
Annie Lennox in conversation with Palden Gyatso, a Buddhist monk who was imprisoned and tortured for many years by the Chinese rulers in Tibet and wrote a book about his experiences. Made for Amnesty International.
The Sikh community in Southall, West London, is torn apart by accusations of rape against one of its most revered citizens.
Trigger films were a concept developed at Liberation Films; they were short dramatized films made to be used in classrooms to trigger discussion about difficult or taboo subjects.
Otto was a German prisoner of war held in Scotland where he learned to be a farmer and also fell in love with a local girl. After the war the couple chose to stay and made a new life for themselves in Kent. Made for German television with German dialogue.
A 20 minute educational film and a 50 minute documentary (for international sale and broadcast) about Foetal Alcohol Syndrome and the devastating effects on the developing embryo caused by women drinking when pregnant. Sponsored by baby bottle manufacturer Avent.