Using cloak and dagger techniques and with help from willing critics, a British television crew does a hatchet job on India's nuclear programme.

The TV serial of the late 1980s is now available as a video series. Although its message of self reliance is a bit dated, it still is a useful mix of science, history and social development.

The Supreme Court ruled recently, in reference to Beyond Genocide, a film on the Bhopal gas disaster, that Doordarshan cannot curtail the Constitutional right to freedom of expression

A look at two documentaries on local resistance to the Suvarnarekha dam project in Bihar and the Sardar Sarovar dam that dwell too much on the picturesque and not enough on the reality.

There are some rivetting science programmes on Star TV and BBC which should inspire Doordarshan to produce better programmes in this genre

A look at this year's award winning documentaries: an educational film on the Silent Valley, a campaign film on the Tehri dam project and a third on a fishing cooperative

Two films on Israel, despite their obvious public relations motive, nevertheless catch and hold firmly, the viewer's interest.

A documentary telecast on Rajiv Gandhi's 50th birth anniversary examines the late Prime Minister's environmental initiatives, but finds the country has not moved very far in the direction Rajiv wanted it to go

Films on successful technological projects and innovative government schemes have failed simply because there has been no effort to show them to target groups

BBC's film on chlorine is more successful in underlining the vital role it plays in daily life, rather than in detailing why it should be banned