Events covered by OneWorld UK
Recent global justice events covered by OneWorld UK.
Don't forget our detailed listing of global justice events for the coming week and also our recommendations
Don't forget our detailed listing of global justice events for the coming week and also our recommendations
What Fatima Did… was adopt the veil, to the amazement of her teenage classmates and friends. This sharp, fast-moving play shows what happened next.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Culture] [Religion] [Race Politics] Image: Arsher Ali and Gethin Anthony in What Fatima Did (Photo: Alex Rumford)
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A former South African army captain who moved to Rhodesia in 1974 and is now one of Zimbabwe’s last white farmers, Michael Campbell is not the obvious choice as the sympathetic subject of a documentary.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [Zimbabwe] [United Kingdom] [Information & media] [Race Politics] [Land] |
Is it ok to make a feature film about a true story? This often-replayed controversy is reopened by Balibo, a dramatic telling of the murder of six Australian journalists by Indonesian forces when they invaded East Timor in 1975.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [Timor-Leste] [Indonesia] [Politics] Image: Balibo
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When campaigners despair of success they need only recall the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa to renew their belief and optimism. But as the Behind the Rainbow declares at the end of the documentary, “South Africa is no longer the world’s greatest fairytale.”
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [South Africa] [Politics] [Information & media] |
Yoav Shamir was called an anti-Semite for one his films, which, as a Jew and an Israeli, he found odd.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [Israel] [Religion] Image: Yoav Shamir
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For many Western campaigners, the collapse of apartheid was a highlight – perhaps the highlight - of their political lives. “Separate development” was so disgusting and the enemy so obdurate that success was particularly sweet.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [South Africa] [Information & media] [Race Politics] [Corporations] [Economy] |
A documentary about “the only top official in the UN known by his first name” sounds dull. But don’t be put off - Sergio is engrossing.
more...Related topics/regions: [Iraq] [United Nations] [Terrorism] Image: Sergio Vieira de Mello
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Profane, rude, blasphemous, direct, mischievous - Kureishi's back: “There are times when we can be too respectful to one another and that can be dangerous.”
more...Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Culture] [Religion] [Race Politics] Image: The Black Album
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England People Very Nice is designedly not very nice. Funny, sharp, chaotic, focused; but not very nice.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Culture] [Migration] Image: England People Very Nice
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It's said to be the most reproduced image in the history of photography, and it makes an excellent documentary, says Daniel Nelson.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [Argentina] [Cuba] [United Kingdom] [Information & media] Image: Chevolution
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I sat slumped in my seat as the credits rolled for Hunger, feeling as though I had been repeatedly punched in the head by Mohammed Ali. It is a powerful, unrelenting film.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Politics] [Information & media] Image: Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands
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Sandra Laing was black, born to white parents in apartheid South Africa. She is raised as white but while at school she was reclassified as "Coloured" and expelled. Her shocked father fights through the courts to have the classification reversed. He wins and Sandra is reclassified white. That’s a good start to a story. But there’s more to come in Skin.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [South Africa] [Information & media] Image: Skin
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Kwame Kwei-Armah’s four-part series retracing Queen Elizabeth’s 1954 royal trip, On Tour With The Queen, is odd but quietly engaging.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [Fiji] [Sri Lanka] [Uganda] [United Kingdom] [Geopolitics] Image: Kwame Kwei-Armah
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Il Divo is a brilliant film – but I am unsure how widely I can recommend it, says Daniel Nelson.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [Italy] [Politics] [Information & media] Image: Il Divo
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Africa has entered a new stage – of state-making, French academic Gerard Prunier told a meeting in London last week.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [Congo (Democratic Republic of)] [Central Africa] [Africa] [Conflict] [Geopolitics] Image: UN troops in Congo, 2005 © Christophe Boulierac / DPI / United Nations
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A "super insulated" block of homes with annual heating bills of under £100 is one the buildings featured in an exhibition at the Building Centre in London's Store Street.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Environment] |
Joe Berlinger describes making Crude as “heartbreaking and inspiring”. That will surely also be the verdict of most viewers.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [Ecuador] [Law] [Corporations] [Energy] Image: Crude
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Garbage Warrior is a genuinely inspiring documentary about a maverick US architect with an experimental approach to building. It's on TV (More4) on Tuesday.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [United States] Image: Michael Reynolds
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It’s certainly a good idea: 56 years after the newly-crowned Queen Elizabeth’s six-month, 45,000 mile royal tour – still the most ambitious ever undertaken – Kwame Kwei-Armah retraces her journey to see what it meant, then and now. The question is: does On Tour With The Queen make good TV?
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Geopolitics] [Information & media] Image: Kwame Kwei-Armah
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Taking Liberties chronicles New Labour's destruction of civil liberties. Yes, its a polemic, and No, theres little thats revelatory. There are one or two Michael Moore moments, but although its fast-moving and entertaining, for the most part it uses actual footage and talking heads to make its case.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Politics] [Information & media] Image: Taking Liberties
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