As Liberia recovers from civil war, health workers and midwives are in short supply. When village women give birth, they are usually helped by a traditional birth attendant from their own community. This film tells the story of a training programme, developed by the Liberian Ministry of Health and the ICRC, to improve the skills of traditional birth attendants. When the participants complete the course, they know how to help with normal deliveries and when to send women with problems to the nearest health centre.

This DVD explores the impact on human tissue of bullets from rifles and handguns, as well as fragments from explosive weapons – an area of study known as wound ballistics. Designed for instructional purposes, the film has been made for a range of specialist audiences.

The surgical management of war victims is different from that practised in peacetime – the security constraints affect the entire health system, hospitals are attacked, staff flee for safety, supplies are interrupted and patients arrive at the hospitals with complicated wounds.

Through the words of those who have borne the brunt of Afghanistan's devastating conflicts, this film looks back on 20 years of uninterrupted ICRC presence in the country. Both beneficiaries and local staff describe the profound impact the ICRC's dedicated work has had on their lives and on those of their fellow countrymen from all ethnic and religious backgrounds.

This film shows how the war in Sri Lanka has hit the Vanni region particularly hard as thousands of people fled there to escape the conflict. It focuses on the health care crisis and how the ICRC responded.

Mohsin, a young man from Kabul, Afghanistan, was badly injured in an accident two years ago which left him paraplegic. This video tells the story of how he overcame his terrible injury and found a new role in life as a grocery shop owner, with the help of the ICRC's Home Care programme.

This film focuses on the tuberculosis control programme carried out in the prisons in Georgia and demonstrates the work done for people affected by the disease. It also outlines the importance of effective training, regular drug supply and political commitment from the authorities concerned.

This film captures the 12 year period between 1991 and May 2003 during which the ICRC's engineers and technicians were involved in the rehabilitation of water and sewage treatment facilities in Iraq. It demonstrates ICRC's work to ensure that the most vulnerable communities benefited from a reliable water and sewage system, providing drinking water, treating waste and minimizing waterborne diseases. Over the years, this programme in Iraq became one of the ICRC's major involvement in the field of water, sanitation and habitat and the film shows how the programme adapted constantly to the ever-changing political and economical situation in the country.

The video highlights ICRC's innovative urban voucher programme in providing economic assistance to the most vulnerable sectors of the Palestinian population. It shows the daily burden of a family in the West bank and the deterioration of its living conditions, as a consequence of closure and curfews. The programme gives beneficiaries the flexibility in choosing food and non-food items according to their needs. The ICRC's assistance to destitute Palestinians in Occupied Territories is carefully balanced with intervention calling upon Israel to take measures that will enable this population to resume as normal a life as possible and to respond to their humanitarian needs.

A first step, focuses on the ICRC's work in Afghanistan to rehabilitate landmine victims and to reintegrate them into society. The ICRC's prosthetic/orthotic centres in Afghanistan have been helping landmine victims and other disabled people for the past 15 years, fitting them with artificial limbs, free of charge.

The ICRC prosthetic workshop in Battambang, Cambodia was set up in 1991 to provide low-cost, prostheses to amputees, many of whom are victims of mines. This video follows the ICRC's process of fabricating a trans-femoral prosthesis for an amputee - from the first measurements, through to the final check.

The ICRC Prosthetic workshop in Battambang, Cambodia was set up in 1991 to provide low-cost, prostheses to amputees, many of whom are victims of mines. Amputees stay at the centre, with its physiotherapy complex and 120 bed dormitories, while they wait for their artificial limbs to be fitted.

This informative film concentrates on a polypropylene component factory in Phnom Penh set up by the ICRC. It examines how the components are dispatched to the ICRC prosthetic workshop in Battambang, near the most heavily mined area of the country and to workshops run by other organisations involved in the physical rehabilitation of mine victims.

Present-day conflicts often end in stalemates, situations that are neither war nor peace. In such cases emergency aid cannot be withdrawn from one day to the next. Time is needed for basic services, such as water-supply systems, to start functioning normally again. This in-depth film features three different types of water programme carried out by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in cooperation with local bodies. First, two water-supply projects are shown in an urban context, in Mogadishu (Somalia) and Bukavu (Democratic Republic of the Congo). The next project is a similar one, this time carried out in a rural setting, on the Lake Kivu Island of Idjwi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The last part of the film focuses on the ICRC's water and sanitation programmes aimed at improving sanitary conditions in Rwanda's overcrowded prisons. These three examples, set in different environments and using different approaches, demonstrate that access to safe water is an essential component of any public health programme.

Surgeons, nurses and other medical staff from Red Cross Societies all over the world have come to a no-man's-land between Kenya and Sudan to help the victims of a forgotten war. Life-saving procedures, an emergency that has been going on for years, a daily succession of planes unloading new casualties - such is the scene of day-in, day-out ICRC work in a remote corner of the earth called Lokichokio. From the surgeon just arrived from Europe or Australia to the patient evacuated from deep in the bush, all those involved in this classic example of humanitarian endeavour relate their day-to-day experiences.

In times of conflict, the destruction of water-supply systems frequently claims more victims than the fighting itself. Humanitarian organizations like the ICRC often have to deal with shortages of drinking water, both in cities where the infrastructure has been damaged and in camps for refugees or displaced persons.

In the last twenty years, ICRC surgical teams have treated more than 12,000 victims of anti-personnel mines. This in-depth film on surgery for mine-blast victims was shot in the ICRC hospital in Peshawar (Pakistan) which treated people wounded by the fighting in Afghanistan.

A brochure and DVD-Rom combination, this product has been created to mark the 25th anniversary of the ICRC's physical rehabilitation programme. In addition to outlining the history and achievements of the programme, it is intended to raise awareness of the long lasting needs of persons with physical disabilities. The DVD-Rom is an excellent resource containing several overviews, various related publications, photo galleries and videos.