Den aldrende nyhedsoplæser Howard Beale erfarer, at han kun har to uger tilbage på arbejdet grundet dalende seertal. I vrede og fuldskab annoncerer han, at han vil begå selvmord for åben skærm. Hvorfor ikke, nu hvor der ikke er nogen der lytter? Han må selvfølgelig trække ordene i sig igen, men nu har nyhedsredaktionen fået blod på tanden og øjner en publikumsmagnet i Howard Beale. I løbet af de næste uger opnår Beale heltestatus som en slags missionær og talerør, der siger ligeud, hvad folket mener om det amerikanske samfund og om verdenssituationen – direkte på tv! Men i en tid hvor der ikke er nogen skrupler, hvordan vil cheferne holde seertallene høje?
The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Władysław Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
Documentary film about the history of Oil prices and the future of alternative fuels. The film takes a wide, yet detailed examination of our dependence on foreign supplies of Oil. What are the causes that led from America turning from a leading exporter of oil to the world's largest importer?
Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen realized that the longer their product lasted, the less money they made, thus Planned Obsolescence was born, and manufacturers have been engineering products to fail ever since. Combining investigative research and rare archive footage with analysis by those working on ways to save both the economy and the environment, this documentary charts the creation of ‘engineering to fail’, its rise to prominence and its recent fall from grace.
Sammy is a 14 year old girl who makes YouTube videos. Robby just moved to New York City after college. Jerry is a single 34 year old network administrator living in the suburbs. Through their fragmented experiences, Consumers explores the dialectical problematics of the contemporary experience.
Injectable anti-inflammatories, anticoagulants, anti-infectives, anticancer drugs and even cotton wools are in short supply. Like many others in France, the pharmacy at Rennes hospital is constantly on the edge. Over the past two decades, shortages of medicines and health products have increased twentyfold in Europe. With almost all laboratories affected, practitioners and health establishments are forced to juggle with quotas to make up for shortages. Some even have to prioritise patients in terms of access to treatments, according to scales established by the laboratories. In the Netherlands, hospital pharmacies have resigned themselves to manufacturing the molecules they lack.
En lille provinsby. Med et spejlbillede af det danske samfund. Det danske samfund og dets stilling til det problem, der hedder værnemagterne. Vi ser værnemageren, der har samvittighedsnag, arkitekt Hans P. Isling, der under besættelsen byggede huse i Kiel, som Churchill pillede ned om natten. Han forsvarer sig med, at han handlede efter regeringens ønske; og han forsvarer sig med sin børnelammelse, den der har mærket ham for livet.