''Backlight'' ( nl, Tegenlicht) is a
documentary television program by
Dutch public broadcasting organisation VPRO.
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(in Dutch), VPRO. Retrieved 28 October 2015. The first episode of ''Backlight'' was broadcast on 8 September 2002.
The program "aims to grasp the quintessence of prominent trends and developments" in the practice of critical journalism, and tries to improve understanding of the intricate inner workings of our modern society.
The program won the
Zilveren Nipkowschijf
Zilveren Nipkowschijf (; "Silver Nipkow Disk", named for German television pioneer Paul Gottlieb Nipkow) is a Dutch television award that has been given out since 1961 by a selection of Dutch critics.
The three founding critics were Henk Schaafsma ...
in 2005. The episode "
Lockerbie Revisited
"Lockerbie Revisited" is a 52-minute episode of the Dutch VPRO documentary television series ''Backlight'' ( nl, Tegenlicht) which was broadcast in the Netherlands on the eve of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi's second appeal against his conviction of mult ...
" won the
Prix Europa {{notability, Events, date=March 2021
PRIX EUROPA – The European Broadcasting Festival – is the Europe's largest annual tri-medial festival and competition. The event takes place in the third week of October in Berlin, Germany.
PRIX E ...
in the category TV Current Affairs in 2009. The episode "Money & Speed", made for iPad, won the Golden Eye at the
Dutch Design Awards in 2011.
VPRO released four documentaries in 2009 and 2010 under a
Creative Commons
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license using the content distribution feature of the
Mininova
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BitTorrent tracker.
Past editions
Past ''Backlight'' episodes are also available online:
* "The Carlyle Connection" (11 May 2003)
* "Buenos Aires - Human Resources" (22 December 2002)
* "Mamma Please Call Me" (28 November 2002)
* "Flight from Heaven" (14 December 2003)
* "Real Men Don't Rape" (5 October 2003)
* "H'ydrogen Revolution" I & II (13 June 2004)
* "Cuba after Castro" (11 June 2004)
* "My Friend the Mayor" (28 March 2004)
* "The Day the Dollar Falls" (20 November 2005)
* "Saudi Solutions" (6 November 2005)
* "Jeffrey's Policy" (2 October 2005)
* "Noreen's Agenda" (25 September 2005)
* "Purple Hearts" (11 December 2006)
* "The Well-Oiled Revolution of Hugo Chávez" (27 November 2006)
* "Energy War" (30 October 2006)
* "
Google: Behind the Screen" (7 May 2006)
* "Three Comrades" (19 February 2006)
* "Saturday is for the Dead" (15 January 2006)
* "Point of View Iran" (17 December 2007)
* "Waste = Food" (17 December 2007)
* "Second Thoughts" (22 October 2007)
* "Democracy's Dilemma" (8 October 2007)
* "The Last Market" (11 June 2007)
* "Caracas - The Informal City" (21 May 2007)
* "Endgame" (7 May 2007)
* "The Israel Lobby" (2 April 2007)
* "In Memoriam Alexander Litvenenko" (15 January 2007)
* "Singapore Inc." (9 February 2009)
* "I Wanna be Boss" (1 December 2008)
* "Here Comes the Sun" (20 October 2008)
* "The Race for the Car of the Future" (29 September 2008)
* "Rising Gulf" (8 September 2008)
* "A Way Out of the War on Terror" (26 May 2008)
* "Daddy is a Martyr" (19 May 2008)
* "The Settler at Kibbutz Karmya" (12 May 2008)
* "
The Truth According to Wikipedia" (7 April 2008)
* "Kasparov's Other Russia" (3 March 2008)
* "
Lockerbie Revisited
"Lockerbie Revisited" is a 52-minute episode of the Dutch VPRO documentary television series ''Backlight'' ( nl, Tegenlicht) which was broadcast in the Netherlands on the eve of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi's second appeal against his conviction of mult ...
" (28 April 2009)
* "California Dreaming" (8 November 2010)
* "A Greek Tragedy" (27 September 2010)
* "After Democracy" (10 May 2010)
* "Energy Risk" (22 March 2010)
* "Exit Afghanistan" (18 January 2010)
Tegenlicht Exit Afghanistan
(in Dutch), Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
* "Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box" (31 January 2011)
* "Digital Amnesia" (7 September 2014)
* "Money for free" (19 June 2015)
* "E-Stonia" (15 June 2015)
* "Power to the patient" (May 2015)
* "Cybertopia - Dreams of Silicon Valley" (25 January 2015)
* "Changemakers" (18 January 2015)
* "The Tax Free Tour"
* "The Cleantech Future"
* "The Food Speculator"
* "Aftermath of a Crisis"
References
External links
*
Backlight
', English website
*
Tegenlicht
', Dutch website
*
VPRO Backlight
Official YouTube playlist of documentaries from 'vpro international' (English versions)
* {{IMDb title, 0913290
2002 Dutch television series debuts
Dutch documentary television series
NPO 2 original programming