S22.E13 ∙ Competitions

Terrorists hijack a plane and strike a nuclear reactor located just outside New York City. Unimaginable? Nuclear horror: from carcinogenic x-rays, to Hiroshima, to the untold tragedy of Three Mile Island. It can happen.

This documentary describes a society and the traditions of one of the most important Islamic cities in the Muslim world that is under a permanent threat of disappearing due to the encroaching sand dunes. It illustrates the respect and tolerance of its people towards other religions and their thirst of knowledge and enlightment.

Arabs and Jews gather around a map of Mandatory Palestine to report a civil race against the clock which took place in Palestine until the founding of the State of Israel in May 1948. The group reconstructs the urgent encounters which took place between Jewish and Arab communities throughout the country, where participants raised demands, sought compromises, set rules, asked for forgiveness, attempted to reconcile and compensate, and did everything possible to prevent the violence in the area from taking over their lives. The film, based on historical and visual research, reconstructs this historical past as a valuable potential for the future.

This is a story of the Croatian journalist Sinisa Glavasevic, the Croatian Radio station in Vukovar and sufferings of all Vukovar's inhabitants during the siege. At the same time this is also an archetypal story of love for one's own hometown, of integrity and responsibility of the individual who, at the hardest trials of his own conscience and responsibility, chooses to take the more difficult path, in circumstances where others - the average and the conformist - abandon ship. Sinisa decided to stay.

Jens Christian Hauge tells about Norwegian forces during the final phase of the Second World War.

In 2005 several former members of the Black Panther were held in contempt and jailed for refusing to testify before a San Francisco Grand Jury investigating a police shooting that took place in 1971. The two lead San Francisco Police Department investigators from over 30 years ago, along with FBI agents, have re-opened the case. Rather than submit to proceedings they felt were abusive of the law and the Constitution, five men chose to stand in contempt of court and were sent to jail. They were released when the Grand Jury term expired, but have been told by prosecutors that 'it isn't over yet.'