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Programs of interest on Sydney Community TV (UHF 31) — Perleeka, indigenous Australians' program, nightly, 7pm. Art Experimenta, Mondays, 8pm and 11.30pm, and Tuesdays, 3am and 6.30am. Bent TV, Gay and lesbian program, Thursdays, 10.30pm and Fridays, 2.30am. XX, women's program, Fridays, 8pm and midnight, and Saturdays, 5am. Waste Not, Want Not, environment and recycling, Saturdays, 8.30pm and 12.30am, and Sundays, 4.30am. For more information phone 649 9622. Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Friday, 10.30pm, and Saturday, 2.30am. Movie: High Hopes (1988) — Mike Leigh's critically acclaimed and telling portrait of Britain during Thatcher's rule seen through the relationship of Cyril, a courier, and his companion, Shirley. SBS, Saturday, October 28, midnight. Movie: Battleship Potemkin (1925) — Launching a two-week season of classic movies to celebrate 100 years of cinema is Sergei Eisenstein's silent epic based on the 1905 mutiny on the battleship Potemkin in Russia. The famous harbour steps massacre sequence remains unequalled in its horror. SBS, Sunday, October 29, 12.30pm. The Native Americans — The Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole and Muskoqee Creek tribes had highly evolved cultural, spiritual and settled existences until they were decimated by white settlers and politicians. SBS, Sunday, October 29, 7.30pm. Trobriand Cricket — This is enough to make Ritchie Benaud and Tony Greig blush! Methodist missionaries first introduced cricket to the 15,000 population of the Trobriand Islands, which is a small coral group off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. The game has evolved to become an outlet for mock warfare, political reputation building among leaders, and eroticised dancing and chanting, and riotous fun. This is the way cricket was meant to be played! SBS, Sunday, October 29, 8.30pm. Movie: Once Upon a Time in Beirut (1994) — A historical investigation into Beirut's past through the eyes of two young Lebanese women, one Christian, the other Muslim. From Lebanon, in French and Arabic with English subtitles. SBS, Sunday, October 29, 9.30pm. The Alchemy of Death — This program looks at the history of chemical weapons from their first use by the Germans in WWI through to the present day. They are the cheapest and easiest to manufacture but, although many countries have undertaken to destroy their supplies, they require enormous wealth to do so. SBS, Tuesday, October 31, 8.30pm.