Jezza Neumann
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
As Tibetan protesters take to the streets in the biggest and most bloody challenge to Chinese rule in nearly 20 years, Dispatches reports on the hidden reality of life under Chinese occupation after spending three months undercover, deep inside the region. Dozens are feared dead after the recent clashes and crackdown by Chinese troops but with reporting so rigidly controlled from the region little is known of living conditions inside Tibet. To make...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
With the world's media attention focused on repression in Syria and the threat to the Euro, the Indian state of Kashmir, nestling in the shadow of the Himalayas, is in danger of becoming a forgotten conflict. But two years back this Valley in the shadow of the Himalayas erupted in some of the most violent street protests it has ever seen. Hundreds of thousands of stone-throwing teenagers took aim at heavily armed Indian Security Force troops, who...
3) War Child
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
War Child is the full length feature documentary based on footage filmed for a Dispatches film, Children of Gaza. Children of Gaza was commissioned by C4 and funded by the C4, DRG and True Vision Productions. War Child was commissioned by More 4 for the True Stories strand, and was funded by More 4 and the WorldView Broadcast Media Scheme. In January 2009 over 1300 Palestinians were killed in Gaza. Around 300 of them children. When the ceasefire was...
4) Poor Kids
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Courtney is 8, and growing up in poverty in Bradford. Her friend Holly is "loaded" cos she went on holiday last year. With an astonishing understanding of social mobility she tells Holly, "You're gonna be richer when you grow up, and I'll be poorer." Holly suggests, "Social workers might pay for you or summat." Courtney replies, "Social workers'll be dead by 'time I'm 21!" 3.5 million kids live in poverty in the UK. It's one of the worst rates in...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Ten years after the policy-changing and award-winning film, The Dying Rooms, the same team returns to a very different China where the infamous One Child Policy has had the horrific side effect of a boom in stolen children. With extraordinary access to devastated parents desperately searching for their stolen son; a man who brokers the deals and has sold his own offspring; and prospective parents grappling with giving up their soon-to-be-born daughter...
Author
Language
English
Description
On the morning of the 14th December 2012, a lone gunman with a semi-automatic rifle shot his mother at home, then entered Sandy Hook Primary school massacring six adults and 20 children before taking his own life. With the gun debate raging across America, both sides set to use this atrocity for political gain, with multiple conspiracy theories being born from the chaos. Whilst the rest of America and the world debated why, the people of Newtown just...