Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Friday, 10.30pm.
Movie Matinee: Stalin's Football (1991) — Based on authentic events during the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, this is the story of the Soviet soccer team who gave an oath to Stalin that they would win the gold medal. A Russo-Finnish co-production. SBS, Saturday, July 22, 12.30pm.
Movie: In the Wolf's Mouth (1985) — Based on actual events when villagers in Peru were massacred after witnessing a government soldier commit a murder. From Peru. SBS, Saturday, July 22, midnight.
Mojo Working: James Brown — When it comes to funk and soul, James Brown wrote the book. Brown is one of modern music's greatest innovators, most copied and yet has been taken for granted for too long. ABC TV, Sunday, July 23, 1.30pm.
How to Save the Earth — This episode looks at campaigns in California and Brazil to fight air pollution. SBS, Sunday, July 23, 7pm.
Cities at War — Leningrad. The "Hero City" — survived 900 days of siege by the Nazis during Wold War II. SBS, Sunday, July 23, 7.30pm.
America Alas — Noted political analyst Noam Chomsky talks about how the Reagan-Bush administrations worked to protect the power and wealth of a white minority. SBS, Monday, July 23, 1am.
Defenders of the Wild — A profile of Anna Giordano, a fighter against poachers of wild birds in Calabria and Sicily. SBS, Monday, July 24, 7.30pm.
Frontline — The acclaimed comedy series that sends up the commercial current affairs television returns to take the mickey out of chequebook journalism, hidden cameras, puffed-up anchors and the other aspects that make tabloid television unwatchable. ABC TV, Monday, July 24, 8pm.
Movie: Dear Sarah (1990) — The story of the frame-up following the bombing of the Guildford pub in 1974, through the eyes of Sarah Conlon, mother of Gerry Conlon, one of those falsely accused. SBS, Monday, July 24, 9.30pm.
Lebanon: Bits and Pieces — Lebanese film maker Olga Nakkas returned after seven years to make this documentary about the women of Lebanon, their culture and problems. SBS, Wednesday, July 26, 8.30pm.
Rule Britannia — A documentary that seeks to unravel the political chicanery, secret alliances, international manipulations and greed for oil which were the background to the Malvinas (Falklands) war in 1982. It examines in depth how British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher allowed hundreds of Argentine sailors on the warship General Belgrano to be killed even while a peace plan was in the offing. SBS, Thursday, July 27, 8.30pm.
Born in Soweto — This Australian-made doco records the hopes, frustrations and ambitions of a wide variety of residents of Soweto, the sprawling 4-million strong "township" that is synonymous with South Africa. SBS, Friday, July 28, 8.30pm.