Bobby Sands was the IRA member who led the 1981 Long Kesh hunger strike as part of a campaign to achieve the status of political prisoners and not that of criminals. The first section of film deals with daily prison life, the 'dirty' protest and the violence, the second is a long discussion on the meaning of life with a sympathetic priest and the third depicts the last weeks and death of a man voluntarily dying of starvation. find out more...

A powerful and though provoking look at the American women's suffrage movement and in particular the fiery injection of raw determination by Lucy Burns and Alice Paul. A finely performed and strongly directed depiction of the fight for the right to vote. find out more...

'Year Zero - The Silent Death of Cambodia', 'Nicaragua - A Nation's Right to Survive', 'Burp! Pepsi v Coke in the Ice Cold War', 'Flying the Flag - Arming the World'. find out more...

'Vietnam - The Quiet Mutiny' (1971), 'Death of a Nation - The Timor Conspiracy' (1994), 'Inside Burma - Land of Fear', 'Welcome to Australia'. find out more...

'Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq' (2000), 'Palestine is still the Issue' (2002), 'Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror' (2003) find out more...

'Stealing a Nation' (2004), 'John Pilger at the Guardian Hay Festival' (2006) find out more...

'Llaguno Bridge - Keys to a Massacre' is a revealing documentary by the Cuban filmmaker Angel Palacios following the events leading up to the 'Massacre at the Llaguno Bridge', prelude to the coup d'etat of April 2002. Palacios explores how the Venezuelan media twisted facts and news reality to blame the massacre on President Chavez and the Bolivarians. The film runs for one hour and 45 minutes and uses never before seen techniques to place the events of April 11th 2002 in their true chronologica find out more...

Spike Lee's mainstream take on the ex-petty crook turned Islamic preacher and leading 60s Civil Rights spokesman Malcolm X. Washington's performance is riveting in this epic. find out more...

Grace has left behind the horrors of Dogville and after a chance meeting with a young black girl in Alabama she and her father come across the curious historical aberration of Manderlay, a plantation still running under the age old workings of slavery. Grace is appalled by the workers' lack of freedom and becomes determined to initiate their freedom regardless of what the people, who know the value of simple survival, want. find out more...

An intelligent, thoughtful, highly engaging biopic of Harvey Milk, the San Francisco based idealist, who became the first openly gay activist to run for political office in the US. Before his assassination Milk was a leading cog in the battle for civil rights for the gay community, as in the 1978 fight against Proposition 6, which could have banned gay and lesbian individuals from teaching in schools. The story may have been a terriby tragedy, but the tone of the movie is upbeat and vibrant, Gus find out more...