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- A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Gypsy girl and a fairy tale world she weaves amidst conflict in Gaza. The children explore nature, mysticism and what their future holds, while learning to live with the surrounding brutality c. 1990. Yusef's family scrapes by in a seaside camp while his father's in prison and his heavily-armed brother's on the run, parrying with Israeli troops. Salah, Yusef's schoolmate from a well-off Arab family strives faithfully to assist them, while Yusef helps an elderly, blind neighbor escape from his lonely abandonment into the North American dreamworld he's waited so long for.
- Set in Tokyo 7 years after WWII, this surreal story is about a 9 year old boy who wanders into a strange mansion, confined inside four adults suffering from incurable diseases, which prevents them from having exposure to the sun.
- Video to open a World Health Organization conference on urban health
- Focuses on illegal trade in endangered species prior to the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1987.
- The Life series of thirty 24-minute programs tackles the issue of globalization and its effect on ordinary people in countries throughout the world. In 1995, there was a meeting of the world's leaders in Copenhagen called the Social Summit. The group promised action on poverty, employment and social integration -- pledging governments to deliver greater social justice to the world's six billion inhabitants.
- Focuses on ozone depletion leading up to the Helsinki Declaration on protection of the ozone layer in 1989.
- 4 news features focused on biodiversity
- The first year in the lives of ten babies born across the world in 1992 - the year of the Rio Earth Summit. As their lives unfold, their stories will put to the test the promises made by the world's leaders at the Rio Earth Summit. Filmed in Kenya, South Africa, China, India, Papua New Guinea, USA, Arctic Norway, Brazil, Latvia, UK.
- The most catastrophic extinction event in the history of the earth was the Permian Extinction 250 million years ago. Scientists believe this was caused by a massive half million year eruption in the Siberian traps that lead to wave after wave of toxic gases devastating life on the planet beginning with sulfur dioxide followed by carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide and methane. Yet, some animals found sanctuaries where they could survive.
- Thai writer Ing K looks at tourism in her native country. She shows what local people really feel about the invasion of foreigners and asks "whose paradise it is anyway?" Some Thais are now campaigning to preserve the few areas of outstanding natural beauty that have not yet been "developed" by the booming tourist industry. They know that Thailand has more to offer than just sun and sex.
- In this epsiode man's relationship with fire is explored. We begin by embarking on an extraordinary encounter with this terrifying force of nature - a walk right through the heart of a raging fire. Fire has long been our main source of energy and we show how this meant that the planet played a crucial role in Britain's industrial revolution, whilst holding China's development back.