Media & Current Affairs

Spaceships soar into space. Dots dance on a page. Rocks and twigs transform into expressive faces. Kids can easily create this kind of magic themselves, and all they require are a few simple tools. Divided into four short, easy-to-understand chapters, Animate Everything introduces basic concepts of animation to a young…

Across the western world it's no longer Al Qaeda that governments are most concerned about. Instead it's the home-grown terror plots hatched by their own citizens.

Inspired by Osama Bin Laden they are the young Muslims who have rejected the values of both their parents and…

In Generation Jihad - Episode 2, Peter Taylor investigates how young Muslims radicalised over the internet formed themselves into a terror network that spread across three continents.

Aided and abetted by two young fanatics in Britain, these cells plotted major attacks in Europe and America - culminating in a…

Religious fundamentalism underpins some of the world’s most intractable political problems as members of fundamentalist groups seek to influence both domestic and international policy. After identifying general hallmarks of fundamentalist belief, this program places fundamentalist movements within the Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and Hindu religions into their cultural and historical contexts.…

The war on terror requires greater cooperation among countries and a deeper understanding of terrorism’s causes and manifestations. This program spotlights five nations caught in the crosshairs to examine regional history, terror-related issues, and counterterrorism actions: the U.S., post-9/11, where captured international terrorists have been handled by military rather than…

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT ISSUES - There has always been a struggle to balance the goals of economic development with the need to protect the environment. With the world's population growing and global climate change threatening to affect us all, never has that balance been more important. Today, the developed world uses…