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, 4-7pm.
Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31, has excellent coverage of industrial, environmental and community actions throughout Victoria. Access News broadcasts focus on community news every Monday, 7pm; environmental news Tuesdays, 7.30pm; and trade union news Thursdays, 8pm. Phone (03) 9525 3551 to contact the producers or make a donation.
Movie classic: Alexander Nevsky (1938) — Sergei Eisenstein's epic film masterpiece, which portrays the 13th century Russian hero who twice saved his country from invading Teutonic knights, has been re-released with previously missing segments. Sergei Prokofiev's superb score is now intact. SBS, Friday, June 28, 9.30pm.
Living Dangerously — Kenya needs to earn money, and its environment is changing rapidly, as more and more of its habitat is turned over to grow cash crops like coffee and tea. SBS, Saturday, June 29, 2pm.
Freedom on my Mind — First of a two-part documentary about the civil rights movement in the US, specifically the fight to register black voters in Mississippi in the early 1960s. SBS, Sunday, June 30, 10.30am.
Deadly Experiments — Not an episode of the X Files but the truth about secret US and British government experiments on their own people. The program reveals that hundreds of pregnant British women were injected with radioactive substances, Asian women were tested for radiation levels after being fed contaminated meals, and mental patients were given radioactive sodium, bromine and tritium. Elmer Allen was one of 18 human guinea pigs injected with plutonium between 1945 and 1948 as part of the US Army's Manhattan Project. SBS, Thursday, July 4, 8.30pm.
Movie: Not Everyone is Lucky Enough to Have Had Communist Parents (1993) — With a title like that, this must be worth a look. In Paris in 1958, a boy watches his communist mother convert his father. SBS, Thursday, July 4, 9.30pm.
Dealing with the Demon — The history of the Golden Triangle heroin industry, which began during the Vietnam War, and how western drug policy is partly responsible. ABC TV, Thursday, July 4, 9.30pm.