Screen documentaries in your school
and enrich your classwork

  • 4 000+ taking part

  • 400+ films with teaching materials

  • 22 years of experience

  • Read more about us in this brochure. 

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What is One World in Schools?

The JSNS Educational Programme (JSNS – Jeden svět na školách  / OWIS – One World in Schools) is one of the educational programmes of the People in Need organisation. Since 2001, we have been helping educate responsible young people who are able to find their way in today’s world and approach information in an open and critical manner. They are not indifferent and they are interested in what is happening around them, which strengthens their active citizenship and civic engagement.

 

We provide teachers with an attractive form of audio-visual lessons comprising documentary films and methodological materials with activities, all of which are available online on our website. Using these, we aim to bring important topics and specific stories into schools. We focus not only on modern Czechoslovak history, but also on the current issues of today’s world. This includes exploring themes such as human rights, media education, environmental issues, civic engagement, and many others. What is more, all of the films are free-of-charge and legal.

Registration on the website is free for teachers and students in the Czech Republic.

Possible international cooperation

JSNS actively seeks out partners for future cooperation. We are open to different forms of cooperation with various types of partners including (but not limited to) non-governmental non-profit organisations, educational institutions, and film festivals. We are able to lead large-scale projects aimed at sharing our experience with using documentary films in both formal and informal education. In these cases, JSNS helps the partner organisation to develop educational materials, train teachers how to use them, establish film clubs, and support young active people in their activities. We are also ready to participate in projects that are proposed by potential partners based on their relevance to the JSNS mission.

For more information, contact our coordinator jana.kautska@jsns.cz.

Following the Czech example, Educational programme JSNS has also been operating abroad for eight years (in Slovakia, Poland, Estonia, Romania, Germany, Lebanon, Georgia, Mongolia, Moldova, Armenia, Iraq, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo).

 

See our lessons in English 

1989: From the diary of Ivana A.

English / Movies for public

2014 / 42 min. / titulky / 12—21 let

The subject of the film is the authentic diary of 18-year old Ivana A., who uses the personable perspective of a high school student to reflect on a year of the existence of Communist Czechoslovakia.

1989: From Letters Across the Iron Curtain

Movies for public / English

2019 / 44 min. / titulky / 13—21 let

Petr Kořínek is 21. He’s from Pardubice, listens to underground bands, reads samizdat publications, and has problems at school because of his long hair. He also dreams about emigrating. It so happens it’s early 1989, and there is nothing to indicate that he might see freedom anytime soon in communist Czechoslovakia.

1989: We Want to Breathe

English / Movies for public

2023 / 50 min. / titulky

Teplice during the so-called normalization period… This once gorgeous spa town regarded as a Little Paris became just as devastated as the rest of the industrial area along the country’s north-west border. Often shrouded in smog so thick that you can’t see even two meters in front of you. The town is also a bastion of a specific form of punk and the center of an exceptional alternative culture. The Teplice of this period is the main setting for the story of Pavel and Renata. They want to live freely, according to their own ideals.

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