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Big Western business is flooding Eastern Europe. Activists and radicals are banding together to protest. Across the East, activists are locked into a running battle with private security forces.
A film on the battle for control of Subic Bay in the Philippines, and the man behind it.
The discovery of Asia's second largest copper deposit placed indigenous communities in fear of losing their lands and having their unique culture destroyed by global mining corporations. This film looks at their struggle, showing the lengths that some people will go to protect their heritage.
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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.
It is estimated that 60 million Chinese living in rural and remote areas eke out a subsistence existence on a meagre $90 a year. How best to improve their lot though is a matter for debate.
The production of opium in Pakistan has plummeted thanks to a 15-year eradication programme. The shattering irony is that in the same 15 years Pakistan has gone from a nation of almost no drug users to the one with the most heroin addicts in the word. Martin Adler follows the addicts to the slums and sewers of Pakistan's cities and analyses the social traumas induced by drug addiction. Still moreā¦
This 1998 doc examines the less salubrious dealings of one of America's top power couples. Having been on the political field for decades, they certainly have much to hide - but how damaging are these covert goings-on?
Seal-culling in Canada is now legal and seal lovers are outraged. Images of baby seals being clubbed to death created a public outcry in the 80's, and the Canadian government banned the practice. But the collapse of the fishing industry after disastrous over-fishing has made it change its mind.
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