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One of the most infamous scandals in financial history, Enron, becomes a theatrical epic.

The London Museum has a new display marking the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Anti-Apartheid Movement - "As an example of the power of collective action, this history still has great relevance today."

Almost 100 people on the Caribbean island of Dominica are centenarians, many more are in their nineties and most are women. Gabrielle Le Roux’s Living Ancestors’ display celebrates their remarkable lives and suggests reasons for their staying power.

The Tibet Film Festival includes undercover documentaries, films that shed light on the little understood system of reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhist tradition and films exploring Tibet in relation to its neighbours.

England People Very Nice is a journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today. As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the Bangladeshis enter the chaotic world of Bethnal Green, each new influx provokes a surge of violent protest over housing, jobs, religion and culture. And the emerging pattern shows that white flight and anxiety over integration are anything but new.

Santu Mofokeng produces photographs that refuse to be overtly political, but nonetheless contain a fundamental political dimension. He seeks a broader story about black life in which people are portrayed as more than just urban activists locked into violence.

Slavers of Harley Street, an addition to the Dockland Museum's London, Sugar and Slavery gallery, lifts the lid on London’s middle-class investments in slavery, dispelling the myth that the archetypal slave-owner was sitting on a porch in the Caribbean surveying his plantations.

David Hare will perform his own work, Wall, drawing on his trips to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, at the Royal Court on 12-14 March.

Actors for Human Rights is launching a new production, which comprises of first-hand testimonies of undocumented migrants living and working in London.

A photography exhibition looks at the prevalence of slavery and injustice in the 21st century through the lenses of eight internationally acclaimed documentary photographers.

The Science Museum is to stage an exhibition that looks into the global food crisis and the debate surrounding genetically modified crops. The exhibition will be officially launched on 17 December by Professor John Beddington, the Government Chief Scientific Advisor.

A new family exhibition at the Science Museum in London explores how our lives could be affected by changing climate and resources, and gives a glimpse of how we might live in 2050.

In October the Museum in Docklands will open the only permanent gallery in London that examines the city's involvement in transatlantic slavery and its legacy on the capital. It will debunk the myth that London was a minor player in the trade by showing that it funded much of the city's industrial and financial success.

The Science Museum is holding an exhibition that focuses on technological solutions to slowing down climate change. Can algae save the world?aims to engage visitors in the debate on possible solutions to mitigate climate change and find out more about one specific technology – biofuels.

Almost a year since the opening of the only permanent exhibition in London dedicated to exploring slavery, the Docklands Museum is welcoming people to examine their own histories in relation to the capital city and its role in the global slave trade.

Thirty years after the Baader-Meinhof Group rocked West German democracy with a series of terrorist attacks, an ICA film season takes a look at the role of women in the revolutionary struggle, both politically and personally.

The Yacoubian Building, a film about a group of Cairo tenants that tackles everything from Islamic fundamentalism to homosexuality and corruption, was a cause célèbre in Egypt where it broke box office records and sparked unprecedented debate. Now it's coming to London.

Why Democracy? is a documentary project using film to start a global conversation about democracy.

Transnational coffee companies dominate an industry worth over $80 billion a year, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. Black Gold looks at it from the perspective of Ethiopian farmers.

As Tony Blair steps down from 10 years leading the country on 27 June,
a new book and film, Taking Liberties, "highlighting the
shocking truth about the erosion of our fundamental civil liberties by
Tony Blair and the New Labour government", is released on 8 June.