Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program that tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Friday, 10.30pm.
Movie: Dilemma (1989) — A socially committed woman lawyer is on with a spunky boss until the environmental shenanigans of his plastics plant come to her attention. From Belgium/Netherlands. SBS, Friday, May 5, 1.30am.
Movie: Father, Mother, Murderer's Child (1993) — Julius, a West German radical, escapes to the GDR, where he settles down with his companion and adopts a child, Karl. Ten years later, after the fall of the wall, Julius is arrested. Karl fights to have his step-father freed. From Germany. SBS, Friday, May 5, 12.30pm.
Movie: Farewell Stranger (1991) — A German intellectual married to an actor has an affair with a Turkish writer and political refugee on a small isolated island off the north German coast. From Germany. SBS, Sunday, May 7, 12.25am.
Vox Populi special: Is there an ethnic vote? — Filmed in Fairfield in western Sydney, a range of federal and state politicians, community and religious leaders, ethnic newspaper editors and voters debate the existence of an "ethnic vote". SBS, Sunday, May 7, 11.10pm.
David Suzuki's The Nature of Things: The Advanced Material World — Advanced materials and technologies are transforming our world, but the question remains: Will this world be significantly healthier and less polluted? SBS, Monday, May 8, 7.30pm.
Women and Islam — Professor Liela Ahmed, author of Women and Gender in Islam, talks about women in Islamic society. SBS, Tuesday, May 9, 6pm.
Truth Under Siege — Truth may be the first casualty of war but, as this doco attempts to prove, independent Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian journalists have tried to sustain an objective viewpoint in covering the conflicts in former Yugoslavia. SBS, Tuesday, May 9, 8.30pm.
Movie: Fair Game (1992) — A journalist stands by his principles despite widespread corruption. From Macedonia. SBS, Tuesday May 9, 10.50pm.
Year of the Gagadju — Kakadu, the national park and World Heritage area, is the home of the Gagadju people. Bill Neidjie explains how the Gagadju divide the year into six seasons by reading the changes in the world around them. The Gagadju are determined that knowledge of the old ways and culture will not be lost. ABC TV, Thursday, May 11, 8pm.
Betraying Hitler — This remarkable program describes how almost the entire Jewish population of Nazi-occupied Denmark was saved with the help of Â鶹´«Ã½ of the German military against the orders of Hitler. SBS, Thursday, May 11, 8.30pm.
The Bureau: The Price of Freedom — British Channel Four's series on the FBI delves into the agency's anti-worker and anti-communist activities, which it conducts under the guise of fighting "subversion".