Curated Video
RR6902A Nigeria Civil War Report
As 1969 begins, hopes for a peaceful settlement of
the Nigerian civil war seem low. In Biafra, now shrunk
to a fraction of its former size, food is still dreadfully
short and deaths from starvation continue to outstrip
war casualty...
Curated Video
Liberia - Food Aid Arrives For Refugees
There were frenzied scenes of near pandemonium--and exhilaration--as desperately hungry refugees surged round the first convoys of UN trucks carrying food aid to rural areas of Liberia rolled into the refugees' camp on Sunday (19/5). A...
Curated Video
SYND 7 7 79 REFUGEE CAMP MANAGUA RED CROSS INTERVIEW
Sandinista guerrillas at a road block near Jinotepe. Scenes from a refugee camp in Managua and an interview with a Red Cross official who talks about the food shortage in the country.
1. vs guerrillas in jungles and marching towards a...
Curated Video
BOSNIA: AID CONVOY FOR BIHAC DELAYED OUTSIDE ZAGREB
English/Nat
The UNHCR warned Tuesday that the people of Bihac face starvation if no food convoy reaches the besieged Bosnian enclave soon.
It added that it was the first time during the 34-month-old war that people in a U-N protected...
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West Bank - Knesset members tour Bethlehem
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat expelled three right-wing Israeli deputies from a meeting in Bethlehem on Tuesday (22/10) after they refused to shake his hand, one of the MPs said. The three deputies were members of the Israeli...
Curated Video
INDONESIA: JAKARTA: ARRIVAL OF UNHCR CHIEF OGATA (2)
English/Nat
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, has arrived in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta to discuss the refugee crisis in East Timor with Indonesian officials.
Early on Saturday she met with UNHCR staff...
Curated Video
Syrian govt and SNC arrive for day 2 of talks; SNC on joint session, Maan raid
Delegates from the Syrian government and opposition arrived at the United Nations building in Geneva on Tuesday for face-to-face meetings on the second day of peace talks.
On Monday, meetings became bogged down in accusations over who...
Curated Video
SYND 26-4-74 HUNGER DECLARATION PRESENTED TO THE UNITED NATIONS
World famous author CP Snow presented Kurt Waldheim with a declaration calling on the world to take emergency action to prevent people dieing of starvation
1. ms dead bodies on trolly, wheeled out of house, in Ethiopia
2. various shots, ...
Curated Video
INDONESIA: UN AID CAMPAIGN FOR EAST TIMOR LATEST
English/Nat
The United Nations has stepped up its campaign to drop food to starving refugees in East Timor.
But a major aid agency has warned that it may be too little too late.
Aid agency World Vision is preparing for a major relief...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : World powers pledge $10 billion in aid for Syria
CLEAN : World powers pledge $10 billion in aid for Syria
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Released Prisoners From Japan's Bilibid Prison
A woman stands in a graveyard of Americans soldiers / individual shots of grave markers of LY Heller and ER Straubel / long, dark hospital ward with patients mulling about / groups of Naval officers stand for photos / men holds jars of...
Curated Video
Senate rebukes Saudi's over Khashoggi, Yemen war
Senators voted Thursday to recommend that the U.S. end its assistance to Saudi Arabia for the war in Yemen and put the blame for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi squarely on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in a direct...
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US senators rebuke SArabia over Khashoggi, Yemen
Senators voted Thursday to recommend that the U.S. end its assistance to Saudi Arabia for the war in Yemen and put the blame for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi squarely on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in a direct...
Sky News
Life On The Border With North Korea
VOICED: For the people living in the border areas of North Korea, yesterday's extravagant military celebrations in the capital Pyongyang are in contrast with the dour reality of life in the communist state. But even in South Korea, life...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : UN launches record $51.5 bn emergency funding appeal
The UN appeal for record funds for aid next year, as the Ukraine war and other conflicts, climate emergencies and the still-simmering pandemic push more people into crisis, and some towards famine (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Bridgeman Arts
Germany in the 1940s
Germans return to homeland, poverty in Germany, workers riots. With German narration.
Bridgeman Arts
Hardship and hunger on the German home front during WWI
Hardship and hunger on the German home front during WWI
Curated Video
New Strategies Being Implemented to Save Manatees
With a record number of manatees dying in Florida, wildlife officials are taking unprecedented steps to protect the species.
Bloomberg
Sen. Paul Wants 'Behavioral Changes' From Saudis
Jun.13 -- Sen. Rand Paul, member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a Republican from Kentucky, explains his opposition to a portion of President Donald Trump's plan to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia. He speaks with Bloomberg's...
Curated Video
Starving For Total War - Turnip Winter 1916
How important is food to the outcome of war? Scholars investigate the impact of starvation on the home front of European nations during the First World War. They view a short video clip from the 32-part Great War series to analyze the...
Be Smart
Defusing the Population Bomb
With a human population of 7.6 billion and counting, how do we tackle the population problem? Examine the data using a video from an extensive science playlist. The resource explains why the human population began to increase rapidly,...
Crash Course
World War II, A War for Resources: Crash Course World History #220
What was the role of food in World War II? Examine Japan and Germany's pursuit of autarky and the acquisition of resources with a Crash Course World History video, which also addresses the varying ways that countries fighting in World...
Crash Course
Population, Sustainability, and Malthus: Crash Course World History 215
Thomas Malthus posed the most famous, and most easily disproven, theory about projected population growth in economic history. What did he get wrong—and why? Explore the Malthusian Theory of Population with a Crash Course video that...
Crash Course
Drought and Famine: Crash Course World History
Who is to blame for widespread famine? Crash Course World History guides high schoolers through a video about droughts, famines, and whether the weather or human activity is at fault for each.