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, 4pm-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.
Little Heroes — This Canadian documentary sets out to find the child warriors their country would rather forget. They are the thousands of young boys who were kidnapped and pressed into service by US- and apartheid-backed Mozambique National Resistance, RENAMO, during that country's bitter civil war of the '70s and '80s. SBS, Friday, May 10, 8.30pm.
Movie: A Question of Attribution — The story of Anthony Blunt, the surveyor of the queen's pictures, who was revealed to be the fourth man in the Burgess-Maclean-Philby spy ring. ABC TV, Friday, May 10, 8.30pm.
Movie: Z (1968) — Costa Gavras' acclaimed political thriller about the supposedly accidental death of the charismatic leader of a pacifist movement and the discovery by the investigating magistrate of a major cover-up. SBS, Friday, May 10, 9.30pm
Movie Matinee: My Sky, My Home (1989) — The bond of friendship between two young boys, one poor and homeless and the other rich but starved of affection, is not strong enough to bridge the enormous social gap that divides and finally separates them. From Indonesia. SBS, Saturday, May 11, 12.30pm.
Africa's Big Game — The first episode of this three-part documentary traces the history of big game hunting in Africa, using rare footage to show the abundance of animals at the turn of the century. Wealthy hunters — like Theodore Roosevelt and the duke and duchess of York, the latter now the queen mother — decimated the animals. The program also looks at the establishment of national parks in the 1940s and 1950s and their impact on local African economies. SBS, Sunday May 12, 7.30pm.
Not a Bad Girl — South Africa's top-selling pop singer, Brenda Fassie, has been dubbed the "Black Madonna". This program reveals the powerful personality of a black woman who has made it in South Africa on her own terms, flying in the face of convention. SBS, Monday, May 13, 12.30pm.
Riding the Storm: How to Tell Lies and Win Wars — Marking the fifth anniversary of the Gulf War, award-winning journalist Maggie O'Kane explodes the myth that the most televised conflict in history was a clean war. O'Kane visits the battlefields along the Kuwait border and finds a desert littered with radioactive hot spots, the by-product of uranium-tipped armour-piercing shells, used for the first time in war. SBS, Tuesday, May 14, 8.30pm.
Movie Matinee: Children of the Open Road (1992) — This shameful story is based on true events that shocked the Swiss public 20 years ago, when a government-funded charity attempted to eradicate the Rom population of Switzerland. SBS, Wednesday, May 15, 12.30pm.
Present Past — This documentary introduces us to five women, each of whom was sent to Ravensbrueck concentration camp during World War II, either for involvement in resistance to fascism or for belonging to a racial group considered inferior by the Nazis. SBS, Wednesday, May 15, 8.30pm.
Curtains for my Cabin — A documentary about women truck drivers. Using Hi-8 cameras, the film intimately explores the lives of women who live and work on the harsh, isolated highways of Australia's outback. ABC TV, Thursday, May 16, 9.30pm.