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 — In the civil war that ravaged Mozambique for the past two decades, thousands of young people were rounded up by rebel forces and taught to kill. This Canadian documentary sets out to find these child warriors their country would now rather forget. They are the thousands of young boys who were kidnapped and pressed into service by the US- and apartheid-backed Mozambique National Resistance, RENAMO, during that country's bitter civil war of the '70s and '80s. SBS, Friday, May 24, 8.30pm.
Africa's Big Game — This episode looks at how the needs of wildlife and people can be reconciled. Dramatic and controversial measures are being taken to manage the land and the animals, while conservationists wage bitter battles over the introduction of culling, translocation and the return of sport hunting on the plains of Africa. SBS, Sunday, May 26, 7.30pm.
Web of Life: Exploring Biodiversity — This two-part series examines the threat that human activities pose to the living environment and documents remarkable efforts around the world to do something about it. SBS, Monday, May 27, 7.30pm.
The Last Best Place — An unsettling picture of the contemporary USA. Beneath the idyllic surface of Montana is a place where the fundamentalist right is making enormous gains and threatening the rights of anyone deemed at odds with God's law. SBS, Tuesday, May 28, 8.30pm.
Movie: Go Fish (1994) — Rose Troche's engaging film follows the lives of five lesbian women. SBS, Thursday, May 30, 9.30pm.
New Voices — The beginning of a series of six documentaries showcasing the talents of up and coming Australian film makers. Hosted by the excruciating Don Parham. Tonight's docos are: Come As You Are — an exploration of three individuals who have taken inspiration from their sexuality; Hollywood Hotel — an insight into the lives of residents of a boarding house in Melbourne. ABC TV, Thursday, May 30, 9.30pm.