2012

S3.E1 ∙ Dear Mandela

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Scenes from the feature-length documentary film Dear Mandela, directed by Dara Kell and Christopher Nizza and adapted by Docubeat. The film looks at the legacy of Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress party from the controversial point of view of grassroots shantytown campaigners fighting for the government to stick to its promises to provide some of South Africa's poorest people with housing.

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S3.E2 ∙ Money for Nothing: Can the dollar survive as the world's top currency?

Wed, Jan 29, 2014

Outgoing Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke helped create, then helped stop, global financial chaos. But has his cure - of bailing out banks and printing US dollars - simply delayed disaster? In these extracts from Jim Bruce's documentary Money for Nothing, his successor Janet Yellen, Raghuram Rajan and other economists discuss Bernanke's tenure as Federal Reserve chairman and look ahead to America's economic future.

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S3.E3 ∙ Afghanistan: where a woman has more freedom in jail

Sun, Feb 02, 2014

In Afghanistan, women accused of 'moral crimes' such as running away from their husbands are sent to jail for several years, sharing their cells with murderers and other criminals. But for some of these women, life is better behind the walls of Thakhar prison than it is outside with their husbands and family. These extracts from Nima Sarvestani's documentary film No Burqas Behind Bars tell the story of life inside the jail, where 40 women and 34 children share four cells.

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S3.E4 ∙ How US evangelical missionaries wage war on gay people in Uganda

Mon, Feb 24, 2014

Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni has approved a law that will see people convicted of homosexuality in Uganda jailed for life. In these extracts from director Roger Ross Williams' documentary God Loves Uganda, undercover filming by a Boston-based Anglican priest, Kapya Kaoma, shows how anti-gay evangelical campaigners from the United States have been influential in the debate, pushing Uganda to pass measures that would be unthinkable in the US.

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S3.E5 ∙ Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children: Rwanda's horrific legacy of genocide

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children: Rwanda's horrific legacy of genocide - In these extracts from Patrick Reed's documentary Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children, he explains how the world ignored the massacres in Rwanda 20 years ago - while former child soldiers explain how they are still used to kill.

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S3.E7 ∙ The great North Korean picture show

Tue, Apr 22, 2014

Behind the scenes of the propaganda movie industry: documentary film-makers Lynn Lee and James Leong followed the making of an anti-Japanese propaganda movie meant to glorify North Korea's 50 year-old Songun or 'military first' campaign. These excerpts from their documentary, The Great North Korean Picture Show, reveal the determination of cast and crew to please the Pyongyang regime.

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S3.E8 ∙ Scottish independence: Homage to Scotland

Sun, Jun 08, 2014

Extract from a documentary film on the countdown to the referendum on Scottish independence, capturing how Scots talk about independence on both sides of the debate. Filmed over six months, Homage to Scotland, directed by Justin Webster, follows Jenny Lindsay, a campaigner for Yes and David Torrance, a journalist and skeptical supporter of No, as they face confrontations with friends and family.

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S3.E10 ∙ Bolivia's child miners: 'There is no god in the mine, it is a demon. Our breath is what keeps it from collapsing'

Mon, Jun 23, 2014

Deep within the mines that honeycomb the Cerro Rico mountain in Potosí, Bolivia, children risk their lives plundering the earth for precious metals. Miners, some as young as 11, brave toxic gases and possible tunnel cave-ins to provide for their families, while young girls must also protect themselves from violent, predatory males. Centuries of silver extraction has left the fearsome 'mountain that eats men', as Cerro Rico is known, on the brink of collapse. But as one teenager explains in these extracts from Raúl de la Fuente's documentary Minerita, such perilous work must be endured as mining remains one of the few ways locals can make a living.

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S3.E11 ∙ Mali land grabs: 'You can take everything from a farmer but not his land'

Sun, Jul 06, 2014

An estimated 90% of land in Africa has no registered owner, including areas farmed for generations by the same families in Mali. Multinational companies see opportunities to develop these areas, and governments in Mali and elsewhere hail such projects as bringers of progress. But for villagers who lose their ancestral lands - not just where they have farmed, but where many have buried their forebears - such advances are a catastrophe. In these scenes from Hugo Berkeley and Osvalde Levat's documentary Land Rush, Malians battle to prevent the increasing acquisition of their land.

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S3.E12 ∙ One secret policeman each: life in Fortress Transnistria

Mon, Sep 15, 2014

While pro-Russian separatists fight for independence in eastern Ukraine, this documentary looks at another disputed territory that declares allegiance to Moscow: Transnistria (or the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic). What is it like to live in a state that hardly anyone recognises? Secret police, central planning and the ever-present face of Russian-backed strongman Igor Smirnov form the backdrop to these excerpts from directors Lukas Kokes and Klara Tasovska's film about a country that doesn't exist.

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