These Silences are all the Words

Unmanned: America's Drone Wars

This documentary from Brave New Foundation and director Robert Greenwald, investigates the impact of U.S. drone strikes at home and abroad through mor

2013

Lahore - Refugees from India

Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India.

1947

Svet na dotyk

2019

Biblioburro, the Donkey Library

This documentary follows the life of a one-of-a-kind man, and his one-of-a-kind library. Luis Soriano is a Colombian schoolteacher who spends weekends

2008

Kagan Valley

Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.

1931

Glorious Resolve

The film based on a true story, tells the story of two soldiers who fought off an assault by 1500 attackers while defending section level outpost of a

2011

How I Like It

In Pakistan, the public space is dominated by men. The confidence with which they walk the streets or weight train quickly disappears once they are co

2021

All the World's Memory

Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and

1956

In the Shadow of Karakorum

In 1954, a German-Austrian expedition led by Mathias Rebitsch set off for the difficult-to-access Karakoram Mountains, geographically north of the Him

1955

MALALA: A Girl From Paradise

Sixteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country’s education system. The Pakistani governme

2013

A Word for Human

The library is a stronghold of humanism, but today libraries are more than places for borrowing books. At the Royal Library in the heart of Copenhagen

2019

Sadpara The Mountaineer

2021

Indus Blues

Pakistani folk artists talk about their struggle to keep a fading art form alive while reminding the world what they are about to lose.

2018

Bats, Balls and Bradford Girls

This BBC Three film follows the first all Asian girls’ cricket team over the summer holidays as they train for their last ever tournament together. Th

2019

The Quetta Earthquake

Amateur footage of the devastation caused by one of South Asia's worst earthquakes.

1935

Zabardast

An expedition film in the form of a multi-voice travel diary, where all emotions pass through the spectators who are immersed for three weeks with the

2018

Mazar Sharif

An Iranian diplomat who miraculously survived Taliban's raid on the Iranian consulate in Mazar E Sharif (Afghanistan) narrates his 19 days of hide and

2015

The Case For Books

This film about Library services in Australia shows some of the work of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library, the National Library with its varied r

1966

Drone

DRONE is a documentary about the covert CIA drone war. Through voices on both sides of this new technology, DRONE reveals crucial information about th

2015

A Walk Through Prospero's Library

A short made for TV with director Peter Greenaway discussing the dazzling 3.5 minute opening sequence from his film, 'Prospero's Books'. As Prospero (

1992