Teacher TV:

Full list of programmes relating to citizenship - http://www.teachers.tv/video/browser/845

Secondary Citizenship: The Human Rights Experience - How can you bring human rights into every subject in your school? Amnesty worked with Teacher's TV to produce a film to celebrate Human Rights Day.  It shows how one school in South Wales took a cross-curricula approach to human rights. 

Secondary Citizenship: Letters to Death Row

A look at the campaigns that have saved individuals on death row produced in conjunction with Amnesty International.

KS1/2 Citizenship: Pupil Power

This programme looks at the four main aspects of citizenship work within Northchapel Primary School in West Sussex.

What's Going On?: AIDS in the Caribbean 

Danny Glover visits a nursery for children living with HIV/AIDS

What's Going On?: Conflict in Northern Ireland

Meg Ryan meets children making a change in Northern Ireland

KS3 Citizenship: Fair Trade

A group of Essex students respond to a lesson on fair trade

KS3 Citizenship: Child Labour

A Year 8 class watches films about child labour in India

Films - curriculum guides:

Blood Diamond Curriculum guide - This Hollywood film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Honsou and Jennifer Connelly, raises important human rights issues, such as child soldiers, through the tale of a farmer, a smuggler and a journalist searching 1990s Sierra Leone for a rare pink diamond. Amnesty International US have produced a teaching resource including lesson plans, drawings by child soldiers and much more to support an indepth study of

the film and the issues it raises.

Darfur Now - a documentary about the struggles and achievements of six different individuals from inside Darfur and around the world that brings to light the tragedy in Sudan and shows how the actions of one person can make a difference to millions.

Hotel Rwanda - tells the story of real-life hero Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in Rwanda who used his courage and cunning to shelter over a thousand refugees from certain death.

Shooting Dogs - Classroom activities to support the film Shooting Dogs.  Also set in Rwanda.

Letters to death row - a film by Amnesty and Teacher's TV and can be viewed on the Teacher's TV website.  The film encourages students to consider the impact of death row on both the accused and the victims of crime, as well as enabling them to learn more about the rights denied and the rights enjoyed by the individuals featured in the film.

The Cave of the Yellow Dog - this online resource explores issues around traditions, beliefs and values

The Kite Runner - adapted from the bestselling novel by Khaled Hosseini which explores the friendships of two boys in Afghanistan. The companion curriculum guide is a comprehensive teaching tool that includes five lesson plans designed to give learners a deeper understanding of the themes presented in the film.

Lumo lesson plan - this film takes an intimate look at the healing process of a victim of rape, a crime of political terror that is increasingly common in areas of military conflict, such as the central African country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the Congo).