The following films provide a source of inspiration to strive for a better world.

Blood Diamond
Review by Olivier Urbain, August, 2007
Director: Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai), USA 2006. Nominated for five Academy Awards in 2007.
Set in 1999 in Sierra Leone during the civil war opposing the government and the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), it shows how this horrendous conflict was partly financed by Western diamond companies. More…

PINOCHET CASE Spain 2001
Review by Theresa Wolfwood, October, 2007
Director: By Patricio Guzmán 

This film is more the story of the eventual humiliation of a ruthless dictator hiding behind his supposed head of state immunity who was finally condemned in the eyes of the world for his ruthless oppression after he overthrew, with the help of the USA, the legally elected government of Salvador Allende. More…

STEALING A  NATION. 2004.UK. 
Review by Theresa Wolfwood
Produced & directed by John Pilger. www.pilger.carlton.com

If we learned in all the sentimentality of the reporting of the Tsunami tragedy of December 2004, that lives could have been saved if the USA military had passed on the warning from its gigantic base on Diego Garcia, we have John Pilger to thank. In fact, if we have ever even heard of this base in the Indian Ocean, it is thanks to Pilger. More…