Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522.
Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31, has excellent coverage of industrial, environmental and community actions throughout Victoria. Access News broadcasts every Monday at 8pm. Ph 9633 6976.
Wittstock, Wittstock — In 1974, Volkor Koepp began filming the lives of three young women in Wittstock, East Germany. For the next 22 years, they remained in Wittstock, comfortable and satisfied. Then the Berlin Wall fell. Their factory was privatised and they lost their jobs. SBS, Wednesday, November 3, 11.15pm.
Red Chapters: The Play's the Thing — This episode deals with Mao's Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. SBS, Tuesday, November 9, 7.30pm.
Big Brother of Christmas Island — Christmas Island is 360 kilometres from Java and 2500 kilometres from Perth. Before Australian rule began in 1958, the British Phosphate Commission ran the island like a Raj outpost. The Asian workers did backbreaking jobs in appalling conditions. Apartheid was practised. These conditions continued into the 1970s until the Union of Christmas Island Workers was formed. ABC-TV, Tuesday, November 9, 8.30pm.
David Suzuki's Nature of Things: Hormone Impostors — Examines the frightening way chemicals infiltrate our bodies and disrupt our behaviour and hormones. Pesticides and dioxins can create subtle changes in the human body by changing hormonal balances. These chemicals are present in fruit, vegetables and plastic. SBS, Wednesday, November 10, 8.30pm.
Baiting the Bear — From 1948 to 1964, Curtis E. Lemay and Thomas Power controlled the nuclear bombers and missiles of the US Strategic Air Command. This film argues that these men built up a huge nuclear arsenal, about which they made decisions without reference to the US president, and sought to provoke the Soviet Union into a nuclear war. ABC-TV, Friday, November 12, 1.55am.