Peace Films
Documentaries (Film and Television)
The Peace Movement
Peace One Day
The story of Jeremy Gilley's attempts to persuade the global community via the United Nations to sanction officially a day without conflict; a ceasefire day; a global day of Peace.
The Peace Movement
Peace One Day
The story of Jeremy Gilley's attempts to persuade the global community via the United Nations to sanction officially a day without conflict; a ceasefire day; a global day of Peace.
The Day After Peace
Jeremy Gilley's follow-up to Peace One Day. Against all the odds an individual manages to create an annual global 'Peace Day'; but can he inspire an actual ceasefire and silence the cynics by proving the day can actually save lives?
Sir, No Sir
Feature-length documentary focusing on the efforts by troops in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to oppose the war effort by peaceful demonstration and subversion. It speaks mainly to veterans, but serves as a ready reminder to civilians that soldiers may oppose war as stridently as any civilian, and at greater personal peril. (2005)
Anti-nuclear themes
Helen’s War
Set against the backdrop of the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, Helen's War tracks anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott's roller-coaster tour as she battles to stop the bombing of Baghdad.
Jeremy Gilley's follow-up to Peace One Day. Against all the odds an individual manages to create an annual global 'Peace Day'; but can he inspire an actual ceasefire and silence the cynics by proving the day can actually save lives?
Sir, No Sir
Feature-length documentary focusing on the efforts by troops in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to oppose the war effort by peaceful demonstration and subversion. It speaks mainly to veterans, but serves as a ready reminder to civilians that soldiers may oppose war as stridently as any civilian, and at greater personal peril. (2005)
Anti-nuclear themes
Helen’s War
Set against the backdrop of the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, Helen's War tracks anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott's roller-coaster tour as she battles to stop the bombing of Baghdad.
All That Glitters Is Not Gold
About the real impact from the Olympic Dam uranium mine expansion in South Australia. (David Bradbury, Frontline Films 2008)
About the real impact from the Olympic Dam uranium mine expansion in South Australia. (David Bradbury, Frontline Films 2008)
A Hard Rain
Traversing five countries China, France, UK, Japan and Australia, A Hard Rain exposes the hidden agendas behind the latest push for Australia to go nuclear and presents a compelling and frightening argument against allowing this to happen. (David Bradbury, Frontline Films, 2007)
Blowin' In The Wind
Deeply disturbing film about the use and effects of DU munitions in wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, and how this danger is now coming to our backyard. (David Bradbury, Frontline Films 2006)
Traversing five countries China, France, UK, Japan and Australia, A Hard Rain exposes the hidden agendas behind the latest push for Australia to go nuclear and presents a compelling and frightening argument against allowing this to happen. (David Bradbury, Frontline Films, 2007)
Blowin' In The Wind
Deeply disturbing film about the use and effects of DU munitions in wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, and how this danger is now coming to our backyard. (David Bradbury, Frontline Films 2006)
Human Rights
The War on Democracy
Award-winning documentary directed by Christopher Martin and John Pilger, focusing on the political state of Latin America with special attention given to Venezuela. The film condemns both the US intervention in foreign countries' domestic politics and its war on terror. (John Pilger, 2007)
The First Australians: The untold story of Australia
First Australians chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people. First Australians explores what unfolds when the oldest living culture in the world is overrun by the world’s greatest empire.
Award-winning documentary directed by Christopher Martin and John Pilger, focusing on the political state of Latin America with special attention given to Venezuela. The film condemns both the US intervention in foreign countries' domestic politics and its war on terror. (John Pilger, 2007)
The First Australians: The untold story of Australia
First Australians chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people. First Australians explores what unfolds when the oldest living culture in the world is overrun by the world’s greatest empire.
911 and the War on Terror
Taxi to the Dark Side
Focuses on the murder in custody of an Afghan driver named Dilawar, who was beaten to death by American soldiers while being held in extrajudicial detention at the Bagram Air Base. (Eva Orner, 2007)
Environment and Sustainability
Taxi to the Dark Side
Focuses on the murder in custody of an Afghan driver named Dilawar, who was beaten to death by American soldiers while being held in extrajudicial detention at the Bagram Air Base. (Eva Orner, 2007)
Environment and Sustainability
The Power of Community
When the Soviet Union broke up in 1989, Cuba’s highly industrialised farms lost their supply of oil virtually overnight. With the loss of access to Soviet oil and fertilisers and its export trade market, combined with the continuing US trade embargo, Cuba faced an economy in free-fall. This is the story of the Cuban people's ingenuity and triumph over sudden adversity to create the world’s first low-energy society is inspirational. The city of Havana alone now produces over 60% of its fruit and vegetables within the city and semi-urban areas.
When the Soviet Union broke up in 1989, Cuba’s highly industrialised farms lost their supply of oil virtually overnight. With the loss of access to Soviet oil and fertilisers and its export trade market, combined with the continuing US trade embargo, Cuba faced an economy in free-fall. This is the story of the Cuban people's ingenuity and triumph over sudden adversity to create the world’s first low-energy society is inspirational. The city of Havana alone now produces over 60% of its fruit and vegetables within the city and semi-urban areas.
The Economics of Happiness
The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance—and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future.
Classics
The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance—and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future.
Classics
Eight Minutes to Midnight
This award-winning film tells the story of pediatrician, author, and activist Dr. Helen Caldicott and her struggle to inform and awaken the public to the medical dangers posed by nuclear power. (1980)
Fighting for Peace
Documentary about the Australian Women’s Peace Movement past and present, from 84-year-old Irene Greenwood of Perth, Western Australia, whose peace activist memories go back beyond WWI, to the songs and anti-war images from Pine Gap and Greenham Common. (1985)
The War Game
Fictional, worst-case-scenario docu-drama about nuclear war and its aftermath in and around a typical English city. Although it won an Oscar for Best Documentary, it is fiction. It was intended as an hour-long program to air on BBC 1, but it was deemed too intense and violent to broadcast. It went to theatrical distribution as a feature film instead. Low-budget and shot on location, it strives for and achieves convincing and unflinching realism. (1965)
War
This award-winning film tells the story of pediatrician, author, and activist Dr. Helen Caldicott and her struggle to inform and awaken the public to the medical dangers posed by nuclear power. (1980)
Fighting for Peace
Documentary about the Australian Women’s Peace Movement past and present, from 84-year-old Irene Greenwood of Perth, Western Australia, whose peace activist memories go back beyond WWI, to the songs and anti-war images from Pine Gap and Greenham Common. (1985)
The War Game
Fictional, worst-case-scenario docu-drama about nuclear war and its aftermath in and around a typical English city. Although it won an Oscar for Best Documentary, it is fiction. It was intended as an hour-long program to air on BBC 1, but it was deemed too intense and violent to broadcast. It went to theatrical distribution as a feature film instead. Low-budget and shot on location, it strives for and achieves convincing and unflinching realism. (1965)
War
7-part BBC series by Gwynne Dyer on the nature of war, devoid of sentimentality or homage to the military mystique. (1983)