key_stages: Key Stage 3 (Age 11-14)

Published date - Jan 2008

What Makes A Good Family? – Young adults discuss how their parents brought them up and how they envisage bringing up their children.

What Makes A Good Family?

Video length - 01.07

Published date - Jan 2008

Escaping The Death Penalty – An ex-convict who faced capital punishment for murder talks about how he escaped execution in the USA. He believes that the death sentence is an expensive solution to crime and even harmful to society. His views are supported by a death penalty expert who favours life imprisonment for the most dangerous criminals.

Escaping The Death Penalty

Video length - 03.17

Christmas in a Gutter – TrueTube takes to the streets to ask if Christmas makes people think more about those who live in poverty. The general public answer questions concerning how guilty they feel around the seasonal celebrations for the homeless, those less fortunate and the poor.

Christmas in a Gutter

Video length - 01.58

City Vs Countryside – One boy from the city and one boy from the countryside, two completely different lives. TrueTube follows both boys to find their opinions on where they’ve grown up, what they want to do with their lives and how their money should be spent.

City Vs Countryside

Video length - 2.46

Five Go To India – The winning team of Linvoy Primus’s ‘Football and Faith’ head over to India to see how their money is being spent. During their journey they experienced poverty on a level they didn’t think possible, and talk of people in terrible conditions in comparison to England.

Five Go To India

Video length - 02.17

So You Think You’re Poor? – TrueTube hits the streets asking the general public how much money they think they would need to last a week, and what essentials do they feel they could not live without. We then watch their reaction after learning how much half the world’s population gets to live off.

So You Think You’re Poor?

Video length - 1.36

Down But Not Out – The story of a young girl’s experience of domestic violence and how it went on to affect her life. She talks positively of her new career path and new relationship despite her previous circumstances.

Down But Not Out

Video length - 01.49