Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-10 of 10
- A heinous crime unleashes a media firestorm trial that lands Scott Peterson on death row for the murder of his wife and unborn child. Ten years later it is clear that not everything in this case is what it seems, raising the question: was justice truly served? Using evidence and new information that was never presented to Peterson's jury at the time, Trial By Fury re-examines the facts of the case and the effect the intense media attention had on justice.
- The series profiles "a day in the life" of the dedicated, but overworked doctors, staff, and nurses at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, located in the township of Soweto near Johannesburg, South Africa. Known as Bara by the locals, it is the world's largest hospital and serves a community of five million people. Each episode follows the committed staff as they deal with the health and social issues plaguing the community, from HIV/AIDS to crime-inflicted injuries.
- Charents: In Search of My Armenian Poet explores the life and work of one of Armenia's best-loved poets, Eghishe Charents, who was tragically and mysteriously killed in a Stalinist prison in 1937. This literary travelogue takes viewers on a journey from Armenia to the poet's birthplace in Kars, Turkey, and includes interviews with experts of his work and stylized poetry readings by ordinary Armenians.
- In June 2010, the eyes of the world were on South Africa as it hosted the largest international sporting event - the FIFA World Cup. For ordinary South Africans, it was also a month-long reprieve from the usual bad news about crime, corruption, and poverty that has plagued the nation in recent years. But it is only now, months after the World Cup has been over and the fans have long gone home, that South Africa can finally access how it moves forward, and how it overcomes the huge number of challenges it faces.
- With one of highest crime rates in the world, South Africans are struggling with the repercussions of living in a country where they feel they are at the mercy of criminals and that the police cannot protect them. Much of the crime is often accompanied by gratuitous violence - torture, rape and assault often go hand in hand with hijackings and robberies - making the threat of crime so much more terrifying to the average citizen. South Africa now also has the biggest divide between wealthy and poor in the world, not only between black and white but with a gap that is growing intra-racially too. Experts believe it is this visible difference between the have and have-nots that adds fuel to the fire in terms of violence and aggression in relation to crime. An average of fifty people a day are murdered in South Africa. It also has the highest rape rate in the world. So what are communities doing to protect themselves? These Streets Belong To Us looks at how ordinary South Africans are coping with the scourge of crime and its accompanying violence.
- A Different Country is a character-driven documentary series that follows five children from Johannesburg, South Africa as they embark on a year's exchange programme at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, UK. The children are drawn from the Dominican Convent School in downtown Johannesburg - Thabile is an orphan; Dibaba, a refugee from the DRC; Lungelo lives in an informal settlement with no electricity; Thabo is from a single parent household in Soweto and Malemo, from an emerging middle class. In a country whose education system is in crisis, the Dominican Convent School is providing much needed skills for those who would otherwise not receive a quality education. We follow the five successful applicants during their year at Stowe School and find out what they learn while overseas. We meet their guardian families and their families back home in South Africa. We see how they change over the course of the year and hear them tell us what they have taken from the programme once back in the country for good. We also follow the story of Michelle, who was on the shortlist to go but who narrowly missed making the selection. She is devastated that she was not picked for the programme but does eventually make it to Stowe when the Dominican Convent School Choir is invited to the UK to perform at Stowe, South Africa House and at Salisbury Cathedral.
- In 1961, Nelson Mandela formed the military wing of the ANC to help in the struggle against Apartheid. As South Africans prepare to go to the polls in their fourth general election since the end of Apartheid, the film follows a group of former combatants who have stopped waiting for the compensation promised to them by the ANC and have decided to start their own business.
- Eye doctors at Bara's St John's Eye Clinic can treat up to a few hundred people a day. Patients can expect to wait most of the day in the queue to see a doctor. In this episode, we follow some of the doctors as they treat patients suffering from a wide variety of eye disorders and trauma.
- Dr. Adelin Muganza is head of Bara's Burn Unit. Mostly poverty related, accidental burns constitute two thirds of all his admissions; suicide attempts about five percent and the rest are due to assault. In the Trauma Unit, Dr Patrick MacGoey tries to save the life of a seven year-old girl, knocked down outside her home by an unlicensed driver.