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A performance of Beethoven's Egmont Overture by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, illustrated by appropriate scenes showing the effects of war and United Nations efforts to aid recovery and reconstruction.

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. Patria, a film by Paul Caravalho on the Rebirth of East Timor.

Man Builds, Man Destroys: A major UN series of 30 films dealing with our global environment and what man is doing to it.

A lesson in international economics with a sense of humour. Sitting around a gaming table, members of the Richard Morse Pantomime Theater act out the moves of international trade using toys, modles and specially designed playing cards. As they play, economic concepts suddenly become easier to understand and the injustices of the present system become apparent. An entirely new game is proposed. The original moves re-played but in a new spirit and with a new set of rules based on the ideas behind the New International Economic Order. At the end, the narrator stresses "that this just a game” but perhaps some lessons can be drawn from it.

Man Builds, Man Destroys: A major UN series of 30 films dealing with our global environment and what man is doing to it.

Man Builds, Man Destroys: A major UN series of 30 films dealing with our global environment and what man is doing to it.

Man Builds, Man Destroys: A major UN series of 30 films dealing with our global environment and what man is doing to it.

The Rajasthan Canal in India is not yet complete but already it has transformed great tracts of desert into agricultural land. The ancient Inca terraces of Peru are being restored and used again, the eroded hills of Ethiopia terraced and reforested.

Man Builds, Man Destroys: A major UN series of 30 films dealing with our global environment and what man is doing to it.

The film follows a Turkish doctor on assignment for the United Nations from his suburban home in Minneapolis, U.S.A., to the village in Turkey where he was born. We see him teaching and setting up research in a Turkish medical school and, accompanied by his teenage American daughter, visiting the scenes of his childhood. The doctor donated his time and expertise to his native country as part of a United Nations programme called TOKTEN, which co-ordinates the return home of eminent expatriate scientists and engineers for short-term consultancies.