Adventures with real and toy trains feature Pokemon characters riding the log loader, legendary steamers, original songs, and toy train bloopers.
A documentary about the rival gangs Mara 18 and Mara Salvatrucha, originating in Los Angeles but terrorizing El Salvador. It explores their origins as possible founding myths of organized crime in a globalized world.
Minimalist movie making at its best: kids learn the art of film language using illustrations and margarine boxes.
Filmed on the war fronts of Chalatenango and Guazapa, the film is based on the construction of Local Popular Powers (PPL) in areas under guerrilla control.
Children get ready to start the first grade. They start learning the first letters.
The children of Peterborough run rings around comedian Tommy Handley and other dignitaries during a city sports day.
State schools in the London borough.
Kids help around the farm on the South Devon coast.
Hard-hitting depiction of the danger to children of burns and scalds.
You're asking for trouble when you play with fire - and this public information film is the stuff of nightmares.
Children’s drawings made during complicated visits to their parents. For them San Vittore is a castle. San Vittore is an episode of the series The Roots of Violence which is also composed by: San Siro (2014) San Giorgio (2019)
This documentary juxtaposes scenes of El Salvador's opposition factions, including U.S. government advisors and government troops, and guerrillas and their sympathizers.
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the front lines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's daily life in the war.
Animari and Zlatko's mission is to help children from disadvantaged backgrounds get the best possible care and education. Will they manage to find funding to welcome more children and to start a high school?
Return to El Salvador explores the reconstruction of El Salvador, post-civil war. The film revisits the struggles of the nation and examines what drives over 700 Salvadorans to flee their homeland each day, often risking their lives to illegally enter countries in search of a better life for their families. The film also profiles a number of Salvadorans effected by the civil war. One couple, who fled death threats in the 1980s, finds asylum and a political platform in the United States. The film also follows a different couple who, after escaping the war, returned to El Salvador to work with churches and poor communities.
The war in El Salvador was the most cruel and bloody Latin America has ever seen. During that time of turmoil Latin American bishops created the famous preferential option for the poor, demanding justice, food and education in the name of the gospel. Using interviews and old footage, the film follows the civil war and the role of the Church in it. In 1977, after the murder of Father Rutilio Grande, the Archbishop Oscar Romero took a strong anti government position, broadcasting sermons over Radio Luz demanding that the government stop the repression. He could not understand why he was thought to be a follower of Karl Marx, when he knew "he followed only Jesus Christ." An inspiring film about people of faith who stood up against injustice.
The third part of Jean Bitar's documentary series about Finnish children is about freestyle biking.
The different life paths of former girlfriends from Catholic and Protestant homes respectively - one a draftswoman, the other a chemical laboratory technician - in two interrelated films, in which love, like the demands and attitudes to life in the change of its foundations in the process of the decline of the GDR and its accession to the Federal Republic of Germany, play a special role.
Pedal power saves a dad's day in this colourful cycling safety film set in a sunny 60s South East London.
Monster Truck Drivers Dave and Becky learn all about monster trucks, and learn how to drive one.