Nine films looking at key Gender Issues (available on DVD or Video on Demand)

For films on Gender Equality follow this link

Out to the Family
DVD or Video on Demand - 2008 - 15 Minutes

Animated programme designed to raise awareness of the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teenagers.

As teenagers develop into adults, it is natural for them to question their sexuality, This can be extremely painful for some people. If they are attracted to someone of their own sex, they may be very anxious that people will discriminate against them. Any worries about gender identity which may be present from an early age, become even more disturbing as children enter their teens. Parents support is vital for these young people, who are often lonely, isolated and afraid. But many parents who discover that their children are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender are shocked, confused and upset.

Some react in the heat of the moment with grief, anger or even rejection. Later they may deeply regret the damage caused to their family relationships. This animated film shows six families, from a wide range of backgrounds, coming to terms with the developing sexual or gender identity of a son or daughter. It aims to help parents and others to understand more about the issues facing their LGBT teenagers, and how best to help them. Family acceptance and support can make all the difference for young people who may be at risk of serious, even life threatening, social or mental health problems. Suitable for young people, parent and families. With booklet.

This programme can be rented on our Video on Demand system for £1.00. For this you can view as often as you like within a 48 hour period of your own choosing.
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Out at Work
DVD or Video on Demand - 2006 - 15 Minutes
Telling people at work about your relationship preferences

An animated programme by Leeds Animation Workshop illustrating the equality rights legislation as it affects lesbians, gays and bisexual people at work. It tells six stories set in different workplaces, including a hospital, a garage, a school, a kitchen and an office. The stories show the issues that arise for a lesbian, gay or bisexual person at work: going for an interview, starting a new job, how you deal with coming out, what happened when your partner gets ill, what it feels like when you are on your own, and when you get some support. With booklet.
Produced by Leeds Animation Workshop

This programme can be rented on our Video on Demand system for £1.00. For this you can view as often as you like within a 48 hour period of your own choosing.
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Trapped inside the Wrong Body
DVD or Video on Demand - 1978 - 30 Minutes
People of both sexes explain how it feels to have a body of the wrong gender.

Transsexuals -- What is it like to feel that you are a man, although you were born with a woman's body and vice versa ? One person of each gender explains his or her feelings about it, and how they are making the change. We also see a class for men who are learning to live and behave as women before surgery is performed. They have to convince doctors that the operation they so desperately want is necessary and that they can fit in happily as women in society.

Made in 1978 this film reflects the cultural attitudes and language of the time it was made. The issues raised are timeless.

This programme can be rented on our Video on Demand system for £1.00. For this you can view as often as you like within a 48 hour period of your own choosing.
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Gay Pride
DVD or Video on Demand - 1979 - 25 Minutes
Gay Pride week in 1979.
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Lesbian Health Matters
DVD or Video on Demand - 1996 - 46 Minutes
Makes health professionals more aware of acceptable practices in dealing with lesbian patients.
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Red Without Blue
DVD or Video on Demand - 2007 -77 Minutes
Intimate portrait of identical twins, one of whom undergoes gender realignment and becomes a woman.
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Theories of Social Work Practice: The Feminist Perspective - Daphne Stratham
DVD or Video on Demand - 1992 - 55 Minutes
Challenges stereotypes and assumptions.
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For Love or Money
DVD or Video on Demand - 1984 - 94 Minutes
History of women’s struggle for employment rights
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Needs Must when the Devil Drives
HISTORICAL INTEREST
DVD or Video on Demand - 1989 - 35 Minutes
Women workers remember their struggles for trade union and women's rights.
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For the full list of our Equality and Diversity Films follow this link

Films looking at Women's Rights and Equality

For more films on this subject follow these two links

Women (Social Concerns) - Women's issues

Raising the Glass Ceiling
DVD or Video on Demand - 2009 - 26 Minutes

Examines womens rights worldwide.

In many countries today's young women haven't had to struggle for equality, and take it for granted. On many levels women can do anything that a man can. But is it safe for them to rest on their laurels? This film charts the history of the struggle for women's liberty and equality. In many countries this struggle goes on today. An Afghani M.P. relates how male M.Ps in her parliament shouted "take her and rape her". She recalls " They have learned how to wear a tie, how to talk about women's rights, but that's all".

In Kenya violence against women is rife. Despite its laws protecting women the USA has one of the highest levels of rape world wide, yet in China economic growth has improved women's rights. Is the time ripe for a new wave of feminism? The struggle for contraception, equal pay, against employment discrimination are all documented in this film.

This programme can be rented on our Video on Demand system for £1.00. For this you can view as often as you like within a 48 hour period of your own choosing.
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Through the Glass Ceiling
DVD or Video on Demand - 1994 - 17 Minutes

Animated film about women finding jobs making full use of their abilities.

Once upon a time, a princess set out to look for a job which would make full use of her abilities. To her surprise, she found a series of barriers placed in her path - simply because she was a woman. With the support of her fairy godmothers, and armed with a magic laptop, she eventually reached the Palace of Power, only to arrive at the last invisible barrier... A fairy story which raises many questions about discrimination.
Produced by Leeds Animation Workshop

This programme can be rented on our Video on Demand system for £1.00. For this you can view as often as you like within a 48 hour period of your own choosing.
http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/products/through-the-glass-ceiling-511/


Gender at Work
DVD - 1988 - 25 Minutes

The way people regard jobs as being for men or for women questioned.

This video explores the way gender is construed at work, through interviews with the men in an East End clothing factory. It looks at the way jobs are defined as more suitable for women or non-white people by their relationships to space, skills, physical power and new technology. Very visible are the stereotypes of that era.

Made in 1988 this film reflects the cultural attitudes of the country and language of the time it was made. The issues raised are timeless. The film quality may not be to modern standards.
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Sex Role Development
DVD or Video on Demand - 1974 - 23 Minutes

Questions sex roles and stereotypes in upbringing and in the media.

The film examines the influence of sex roles and stereotypes on a wide range of aspects. An amusing vox pop of sex stereotypes held by children leads to a sequence exploring the stereotype in the glossy advertisements which extol the male/female virtues. In an animated sequence the film shows how the growing child is channelled from birth: blue for boys, rough games and no tears; pink for girls, dolls and free expression of emotions. Then the film turns to explore the attempts by a family and a school to move away from these fixed views of roles to a more flexible attitude which encourages girls to do woodwork and boys to bake cakes.

This film is of historical interest and reflects the cultural attitudes and language of the time it was made. The imagery and film quality may not be to modern standards. But the issues raised are timeless.

This programme can be rented on our Video on Demand system for £1.00. For this you can view as often as you like within a 48 hour period of your own choosing.
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Did I Say Hairdressing? I Meant Astrophysics
DVD - 1998 - 14 Minutes

Animated film encouraging women to take up careers in science, technology and engineering.
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Poles Apart
DVD - 1984 - 32 Minutes

Confronting the issue of sexism in playschemes.
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The Time has Come
DVD or Video on Demand - 1978 - 22 Minutes

How sex stereotyping can be recognised and lessened.
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Autobiographies
DVD or Video on Demand - 1983 - 32 Minutes

Ways in which the media foster inequalites by their portrayal of women.
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For the full list of our Equality and Diversity Films follow this link

Five important Race Relations Films

For the full list of our Race Relations Films follow this link

Occupied Minds
DVD or Video on Demand - 2005 - 58 Minutes

A Palestinian and an Israeli explore the Palestinian conflict together.

Palestinian Jamal and Israeli Michaelis travel to Jerusalem. It's their mutual birthplace even though they both now live in the USA. Their aim is to explore solutions to the divisive Palestinian conflict. The film travels on an emotional personal odyssey through the streets of one of the most volatile cities. The two men are the only Palestinian /Israeli team working together in the US media. Their journey forces them to question themselves as never before.

This programme can be rented on our Video on Demand system for £1.00. For this you can view as often as you like within a 48 hour period of your own choosing.
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Just Listen - Race and Religion
DVD or Video on Demand - 2004 - 12 Minutes

A tragic story of a refugee, and attitudes to Islam.

Interviews with people who come from groups which are prejudiced against. They talk frankly about their experiences and the problems they encounter.

Race and Religion: Ibrahim and Clair: Tragic story of a refugee; a British Muslim describes her religion. Ibrahim's story of personal tragedy dispels many of the myths that exist about refugees and asylum seekers. Clair is a Muslim and tells how lack of understanding leads to prejudice towards other religions, particularly Islam.
Made in co-operation with West Suffolk College and The Learning Skills Council for Suffolk

This programme can be rented on our Video on Demand system for £2.50. For this you can view as often as you like within a 48 hour period of your own choosing.
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The Essential Blue-Eyed
DVD or Video on Demand - 1999 - 96 Minutes

A shorter version of Jane Elliott's life and her work combating prejudice. Includes debriefing session.

A special trainer's version of the original Blue Eyed film (q.v.) which is shortened to 60 minutes, retaining the most telling parts. Jane Elliott herself says the film is "the most dramatic and complete summary of my 30 years experience helping organisations grapple with the difficulties and opportunities offered by a diverse workforce." Together on the tape is a completely new 36 minute debriefing where Jane Elliott shows how to help participants apply the lessons of her exercise to their daily work lives. She encourages the mixed group to compare their personal experiences of discrimination to appreciate that white people and people of colour, and other minority groups, inhabit two separate worlds.

Trainer’s version 60 minutes followed by 36 minute debriefing.

This programme can be rented on our Video on Demand system for £5.38. For this you can view as often as you like within a 48 hour period of your own choosing.
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Rainbow Days
DVD or Video on Demand - 1997 - 20 Minutes

A colourful multicultural festival in a London school

Nine schools in Thamesmead take part in a colourful multicultural festival. The Thamesmead Race Equality Forum was set up after racist murders of two black teenagers, and the aim is to do something constructive to overcome fear, and to celebrate the diversity of different cultures. Professional people work alongside the children and community groups in workshops and performances. Although made some years ago, the issues are still relevant today. 1997.

This programme can be rented on our Video on Demand system for £1.00. For this you can view as often as you like within a 48 hour period of your own choosing.
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A Class Divided
DVD or Video on Demand - 1985 - 60 Minutes

Jane Elliott's unique experiment in discrimination through eye colour.
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For the full list of our Equality and Diversity Films follow this link

Important films on Child Care

For our full list of Child and Adolescent films films click here

The Road Home
DVD - 2005 - 45 Minutes
The importance of attachment for very young children, and the effects when it is lacking.
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Monday's Child
DVD - 2005 - 68 Minutes
Infant care and development in rural Nepal.
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The Sunday's Child Films
DVDs - From the late 80's and early 90's - 30 minutes to 90 minutes (16 films)
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A Two Year Old goes to Hospital (Robertson Film)
DVD - 1952 - 15 Minutes
Classic film showing the suffering of a little girl in hospital separated from her mother.
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For the full list of Robertson films follow this link

Make that 275+ Video on Demand Films

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At Concord we've been working hard to get more of our 1300 films onto our streaming/downloads system

Newly added films include:
Farewell to the Welfare State, Taking the Lid off and Rites: Female Circumcision and Infibulation

For our full list visit our VOD Page
(Purchases and Rentals can be made in €, £, Aus $, US $ and Can $)

You can also see a list on our website

Over 200 films on Video on Demand

Concord Media's Vimeo on Demand page

Did you know, Concord now have over 200+ films to choose from on our Vimeo on Demand channel                  

Subjects include Counselling, Mental Health, Social Concern, Health & Care

And it's growing every week giving you more choice!                                                                                 

Some of our favourites include

Music and the Shadow - 1987 - 45 minutes
Mary Priestley's individual analytical music therapy

Tilt - 1972 - 14 minutes
Witty cartoon about overpopulation, starvation, and people’s selfishness

Journey into Self - 1968 - 45 minutes
Classic record of an encounter group with Carl Rogers

Some Babies Die - 1986 - 56 minutes
Allowing parents and siblings to grieve for stillbirths and neonatal deaths

We also have many films available to rent for as little as £1.00 
(US$ 1.58, €1.37, CAD$1.89 & AUD$1.99) Prices will vary slightly due to exchange rate fluctuations

Sundays Child - Aged 12 years old - 1995 - 47 minutes
Back in England with his mother

Homeless - 1995 - 20 minutes
Seven homeless women in Colchester reveal their experiences

The Truth Game - 1983 - 90 minutes
John Pilger looks at world-wide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race

Scientists Under Attack - 2010 - 60 minutes
The danger and immorality of scientific research being funded by big business

For all our films visit: https://vimeo.com/concordmedia/vod_pages/

Mental Health Awareness Week - Four Films on Mental Health

Just Listen - Mental Health

Concord has probably the largest collection of programmes on almost all aspects of mental health and counselling, including the four films listed below

Delirium, Dementia and Depression
DVD - 2010 - 21 Minutes
Depression: symptoms and treatment
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Depression: Understanding the Disease
DVD - 2010 - 29 Minutes
Explains the difference between Delirium, Dementia and Depression as they affect older people...
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Just listen - mental health
DVD - 2006 - 30 Minutes
Interviews with three people who have experienced mental health problems.
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Not just a bad day
DVD - 2005 - 50 Minutes
The lives of four people with bi-polar disorder.
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To see our full listings visit
http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/categories/mental-health

http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/categories/counselling/

We have a growing list of films available on our Video on Demand service, for more information visit this page

or go straight to: https://vimeo.com/concordmedia/vod_pages/

If you have any enquiries please get in touch!

Concord Media

Four films on the issues of Smoking

Terminal Boredom

Terminal Boredom
DVD 15 Minutes
A video about smoking, for use with 11- and 12-year-olds. An anti-smoking story unfolds via the use of cartoon animation, computer graphics and live action sequences. An accompanying teacher's guide demonstrates how to use the video in PSE or any lesson across the National Curriculum.
£17.25 plus postage

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The Smoking Video
DVD 30 Minutes
Smokers and ex-smokers of all ages and classes talking about smoking. A series of clips from interviews with smokers and ex-smokers of all ages and classes talking about smoking. Designed to encourage discussion with a view to helping people to stop.
£23.00 plus postage.

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Life's a Drag
DVD 25 Minutes
Children act scenes about the evils of smoking.Children from a Gloucestershire school act in this amusing film which presents a series of light-hearted tableaux involving different social groups for the audience to identify with. The theme is that smoking is a vicious circle, the older children passing on the habit to the younger ones, and the film ends with a shock.    £17.25 plus postage

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Suckers
DVD 25 Minutes
The history and effects of tobacco, told by David Bellamy.  David Bellamy describes how and why tobacco came to Europe, and explains the biochemical secrets behind its addictive appeal. He presents some remarkable facts and figures about just how lethal it can be, and offers vivid and harrowing human evidence of the crippling damage tobacco can inflict. Together with Lee Peck he suggest that big business and governments help to foster this habit which killed 100,000 smokers in Britain in 1984.
£23.00 plus postage

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A Person Centred Counsellor

Just released - a new programme on counselling which may be of interest to you



A Person Centred Counsellor
NEW!
DVD  2015  100 Minutes

A real client centred session, and subsequent debriefing
In 2000 Norma James, already a highly experienced therapist with many years of practice behind her, made the decision to work only from a person centred perspective. In this video she demonstrates her practice and talks about her understanding of the approach. There is a 55 minute unscripted session in which the client works with real material, and two short debriefing sessions with the counsellor and the client. Then there is a 33 minute interview with Mike Simmons in which Norma talks about the person centred approach. Provides a rare opportunity to see a real unscripted and unplanned counselling session. Included is a booklet for further study. Chapter makers have been inserted at five minute intervals. Edited and produced by Mike Simmons.
£46.00 plus postage, and VAT if applicable

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Another film which could be of interest to all counsellors no matter what type of counselling practised is;

Birth of a Profession
HISTORICAL INTEREST
DVD 1999 94 Minutes

A discussion by the pioneers of child therapy.
In a discussion by retired professional people who were pioneers in psychoanalytic child psychotherapy before it was recognised, the picture of how it was at the beginning and the first 50 years of this discipline emerges. They talk about John Bowlby, Anna Freud, James Robertson and many other people who were influential at the beginning of this branch of therapy.

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Five useful films about the care of babies and infants

A Day in the Life

Five useful films about the care of babies and infants

For our full range of Child Care Films - click here


An Introduction to Foster Care - 27 Minutes
Discussion of many aspects of foster care
£23.00 plus postage, and VAT if applicable
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I Don't Need Toys - 18 Minutes
A film about play in the first two years of life
£40.25 plus postage, and VAT if applicable

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Buddle Lane - A Day Nursery - 40 Minutes
Child care in a day nursery in Exeter.
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A Day in the Life of a Day Nursery - 90 Minutes
Detailed description of the work of a day nursery.
£46.00 plus postage, and VAT if applicable

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Ethical Dilemmas in the Care of Young Children - 36 Minutes
New technology and lack of resources raise serious dilemmas.
£34.50 plus postage, and VAT if applicable

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The Holocaust: Two films that should be seen by all

Kitty Hart, a holocaust survivor, returns to Auschwitz for the first time since the war

Kitty Returns to Auschwitz - 1980 - 90 Minutes
Kitty, who was in the camp as a child, returns with her son.
The programme records Kitty Hart's first journey to Auschwitz since the war. She takes her son, David, with her to try to explain to him the full horror of what she and her mother had seen and experienced while they were prisoners there. It is a detailed, harrowing account of everyday life in the concentration camp, delivered with the passion of a survivor determined that what she witnessed and endured will never be forgotten.
£34.50 plus postage, and VAT if applicable

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The Ambulance - 1962 - 10 Minutes
Reconstruction of the Nazi gassing of children in wagons.
If there was not so much evidence of the use of gas wagons by the Nazis in Russia and Poland (over 7000 were murdered in this way in Krasnodor alone), one could not believe this film. It reconstructs one incident involving a small group of Jewish children. A very moving story told without words.

This film was made in 1962 in black and white, so the film and sound quality is not to modern standards. This should not diminish its value as a moving document.
£17.25 plus postage, and VAT if applicable

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Race Relations Films

Race is a Four Letter Word

With questions about immigration, race relations and terrorism playing an important part in the debate leading up to the UK general election these films throw a light on to these subjects.

Race is a Four letter Word - 2011 - 56 minutes
Examines concepts and conflicts around being black.

Directed by Sobaz Benjamin, who was brought up in England, and moved to Grenada before settling in Canada. He highlights some conflicts around race, heroically exposing himself, too: a black man who grew up trying to bleach his skin with chemicals, and then struggled to appreciate the meaning of his heritage.

We also meet a white man who is culturally and psychologically black, having been brought up by a black family, a black woman who wants to be considered Canadian and another black woman who retreats to England rather than continue to face Canada’s racial cold war. Finally the film teaches us that the soul has no colour - yet race is a marathon we are all forced to run.
DVD Sale Price£33.35 plus postage, and VAT
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Just Listen : Race and Religion - 2004 - 12 minutes
A tragic story of a refugee, and attitudes to Islam.

Interviews with people who come from groups which are prejudiced against. They talk frankly about their experiences and the problems they encounter.

Race and Religion: Ibrahim and Clair: Tragic story of a refugee; a British Muslim describes her religion. Ibrahim's story of personal tragedy dispels many of the myths that exist about refugees and asylum seekers. Clair is a Muslim and tells how lack of understanding leads to prejudice towards other religions, particularly Islam.
Made in co-operation with West Suffolk College and The Learning Skills Council for Suffolk

£23.00 plus postage and VAT
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The Essential Blue-Eyed - 1999 - 96 minutes
A shorter version of Jane Elliott's life and her work combating prejudice. Includes debriefing session.

A special trainer's version of the original Blue Eyed film (q.v.) which is shortened to 60 minutes, retaining the most telling parts. Jane Elliott herself says the film is "the most dramatic and complete summary of my 30 years experience helping organisations grapple with the difficulties and opportunities offered by a diverse workforce." Together on the tape is a completely new 36 minute debriefing where Jane Elliott shows how to help participants apply the lessons of her exercise to their daily work lives. She encourages the mixed group to compare their personal experiences of discrimination to appreciate that white people and people of colour, and other minority groups, inhabit two separate worlds.
Trainer’s version 60 minutes followed by 36 minute debriefing.

£49.50 plus postage, and VAT
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Rainbow days - 1997 - 20 minutes
A colourful multicultural festival in a London school

Nine schools in Thamesmead take part in a colourful multicultural festival. The Thamesmead Race Equality Forum was set up after racist murders of two black teenagers, and the aim is to do something constructive to overcome fear, and to celebrate the diversity of different cultures. Professional people work alongside the children and community groups in workshops and performances. Although made some years ago, the issues are still relevant today. 1997.

£22.43 plus postage and VAT
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Young British and Muslim - 1989 - 25 minutes
Western values versus tradition for Muslim children in Britain

Muslims make up the largest religious and cultural minority in Britain. Workers started coming to Britain in the ‘60s, and soon communities were established. We meet the children of the first generation of Asian Muslim immigrants, including the pupils of the Leicester Muslim Girls’ High School, and find out how far they have accepted western values, and examine the deep-rooted strength of their faith and their acceptance of the moral and cultural values embodied in it. Even as far back as 1989 resentment is clearly beginning to build up as the children see what they perceive as slights to their religion and blasphemy against its founder Mohammed such as the book by Salman Rushdie and other attacks. Slights such as these may have helped in the development of today’s terrorists.
£19.50 plus postage, and VAT
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