Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 4pm-7pm.
Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31, has excellent coverage of industrial, environmental and community actions throughout Victoria. Access News focuses on community news every Monday, 7pm; environmental news every Tuesday, 7.30pm; and trade union news every Thursday, 8pm. Phone (03) 9525 3551 to contact the producers or make a donation.
Francesc and Luis — An intimate portrait of the everyday life of a gay couple living together for six years in Barcelona. SBS, Friday, April 19, 1.30pm.
Juggling Gender: Politics, Sex and Identity — A documentary explores issues of identity through Jennifer, a bearded lesbian performance artist, circus director and clown, who is an articulate voice for gender outlaws. SBS, Sunday, April 21, 11.10pm.
Red Ruth: the Woman Who Loved Bertolt Brecht — The story of Ruth Berlau. ABC TV, Sunday, April 21, 11.20pm.
The Liberators — This documentary looks at the role African-Americans played in the defeat of the Nazis and their courage in fighting on two fronts — battling racism in a segregated army and fighting to liberate Europe. SBS, Monday, April 22, 11.15pm.
African Footsteps — Jazz singer and writer George Melly goes to Senegal, where surreal art meets politics; and Miriam Makeba, South Africa's best-known singer, visits Guinea, reviving memories of exile and sadness. SBS, Tuesday, April 23, 8pm.
Russia's Deep Secrets — One and a half kilometres beneath the icy waters of the Arctic, a submarine lies wrecked, a gash in its hull just above its nuclear reactor, its two plutonium-tipped warheads exposed to sea water. There is a danger that sediment contaminated by plutonium will be stirred up by the currents and enter the food chain. The need to decommission hundreds of nuclear submarines and dispose of tonnes of radioactive spent fuel rods, reactors and "hot" waste remains one of the greatest post-Cold War dilemmas. The anarchy of Yeltsin's Russia intensifies the problem. ABC TV, Wednesday, April 24, 8.30pm.
Billion Dollar Crop — Less than 100 years ago, cannabis was one of the world's largest legal crops, providing paper, rope, cloth and medicine. Now prohibition has turned it into a huge illegal trade. This documentary looks at the history of cannabis and discusses the question of decriminalisation. ABC TV, Thursday, April 25, 9.30pm.