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The item consists of an instructional video created in 1987. It discusses victim service initiatives being implemented in B.C. Includes Raymond Burr interviewing Premier W. Vander Zalm and Attorney General Brian Smith, interviews with victims and volunteers, the justice system response, discussion of police and private agency services, criminal injuries compensation, victim impact statements, victims as witnesses, victim-offender reconciliation, etc.

The item consists of an instructional video created around 1988 by the British Columbia Corrections Branch to illustrate and describe the different types of secure custodial facilities for adult offenders in British Columbia. The video is approximately 32 minutes long and consists of colour slides with voice over audio. At the time of filming, there were three types of adult corrections centres: secure, open and community. The video describes each type of facility and shows slides of staff and prisoners in each facility involved in activities including recreation, work, medical treatment and educational opportunities.

The facilities shown are as follows:
6 secure facilities for men and women:
Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre (Wilkinson, Saanich)
Vancouver Pretrial Centre
Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre (Burnaby)
Lakeside Correctional Centre (Burnaby, for women)
Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre
Prince George Regional Correctional Centre

13 semi-isolated open centres including forest camps, farms and specialized centres:
Nanaimo Correctional Centre
Chilliwack River Correctional Centre
Mount Thurston Correctional Centre (forest camp)
Ford Mountain Correctional Centre (forest camp)
Maple Ridge Sentence Management Unit (reception and classification)
Alouette River Correctional Centre (Maple Ridge, alcohol treatment)
Twin Maples Correctional Centre (Maple Ridge, mainly for women)
Pine Ridge Correctional Centre (Haney area forest camp)
Stave Lake Correctional Centre (forest camp for non-dangerous sex offenders)
New Haven Correctional Centre (Burnaby, unit for men under 22 serving their first adult sentence)
Rayleigh Correctional Centre (Kamloops)
Bear Creek Correctional Centre (Wells Gray Park near Clearwater)
Hutda Lake Correction Centre (south of Prince George)

7 community correction centres where inmates worked daily in the community or were serving sentences of three months or less:
Victoria Community Correctional Centre; Nanaimo Community Correctional Centre; Marpole Community Correctional Centre (South Vancouver); Burnaby Community Correctional Centre; Chilliwack Community Correctional Centre; Kamloops Community Correctional Centre and Terrace Community Correctional Centre.

The item consists of a video (part 1), created in 1982. There are no credits or introduction to the video but it consists of a discussion of the new Canadian Charter of Rights and how it affects British Columbia law. It appears to have been arranged by the Ministry of the Attorney General. The discussion, before an audience of law professionals, was moderated by Bob Edwards, Director of Constitutional and Administrative Law (AG) and includes talks by Edwards, by Judge Iain Hughes and by former law teacher Howard Eddy. There is a question and answer period after the formal talks.

The item consists of a video (part 2), created in 1982. There are no credits or introduction to the video but it consists of a discussion of the new Canadian Charter of Rights and how it affects British Columbia law. It appears to have been arranged by the Ministry of the Attorney General. The discussion, before an audience of law professionals, was moderated by Bob Edwards, Director of Constitutional and Administrative Law (AG) and includes talks by Edwards, by Judge Iain Hughes and by former law teacher Howard Eddy. There is a question and answer period after the formal talks.

The item consists of a video containing six 30-second television commercials in the CounterAttack series from 1983 to 1985. The ads were made to educate the public in the dangers and issues of drinking and driving. The six ads are:
Get the Picture; [impaired driving]; [drunk driver]; Costs; Victims and Insurance.

The item consists of a video containing eight 30-second and one five-minute television commercials in the CounterAttack series from 1985 to 1986. The ads were made to educate the public in the dangers and issues of drinking and driving. The nine ads are repeated three times. Eight of the ads are as follows: Playing for Keeps; Science; Exercise; Good Judgement; Mary; Intervention; Mother and Get the Picture. The ninth is a five minute slide montage of drinking and driving issues.

The item consists of a video containing four 30-second television commercials in the CounterAttack series from 1989. The ads were made to educate the public in the dangers and issues of drinking and driving. The four ads are: House of cards; License; Phone calls; and Drinking Driving.

The item consists of an instructional video created around 1988 to give an overview of the court services in British Columbia. The video is approximately 7 minutes long and consists of colour slides with an audio voice over and musical track. It includes an overview of court services starting in 1860 with slides of historical photographs and court locations on a map of BC. It then discusses the present state of court services including statistics of types of cases and describes the various types of court services including court administration, sheriff service, reporting/records and management/administration. If finishes with a discussion of what the future holds including new training programs, new technology and progressive management techniques.

The item consists of an instructional video created in 1988. It was co-produced by the Ministry of the Attorney General and Cathay TV and was aimed at the Chinese community in British Columbia. After an introduction by the Attorney General, there are re-enactments of a Chinese youth crime in Vancouver including a trial. The rest of the video has Chinese language audio and shows various scenarios interspersed with interviews and cartoons showing the importance of family values.

The series consists of videotapes created by the Ministry of Attorney General between 1983 and 1990. The videos were created to provide public information on a variety of topics including Justice and Court services, alcohol and youth issues and disaster response.

The item consists of an informational video created in 1989 for the Liquor Control Board, which uses dramatic reenactments that show the importance of serving alcohol responsibility. It is aimed at servers and businesses involved in the industry.

The item consists of an instructional video created in 1986 by the Provincial Emergency Program. It describes the search and rescue operations facilitated by the Provincial Emergency Program along with the RCMP and volunteers including the North and West Vancouver Emergency Program and the North Shore Rescue Team.

The item consists of an instructional video created by the Provincial Emergency Program in 1986. It dramatizes the event of a tsunami-generating earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, illustrating the scenario for emergency warning systems. It provides guidelines for the public in protecting life and property. It includes interviews with experts at the Institute of Ocean Sciences at Pat Bay, the Canadian Military operations room at Esquimalt and at PEP headquarters in Victoria. There are also interviews with residents of Port Alberni who had experienced the 1964 Tsunami there.

The item consists of an instructional video created by the Ministry of Attorney General Corrections Branch around 1986. It consists of colour slides with an audio voice over and describes programs at Twin Maples Correctional Centre, a facility for B.C. female offenders and some males. It highlights a program in which babies under two live with their mothers at the institution. It also shows other aspects of the institution including farming, sewing, working in the ceramic shop and providing daycare services for children of the community.

The item consists of an instructional video produced for the Public Legal Education Society and funded by the Ministry of the Attorney General in 1989. The video is a fictional account of an actual event, and tells the story of "Winston", a 16 year old, newly arrived immigrant from China, living in Vancouver. Winston becomes involved in criminal gang activities after being bullied at school, eventually commits a murder and is sent to prison for eight years. The video was meant to be shown with accompanying teaching materials to educate youth.

The item consists of an instructional video created by the Justice Institute of British Columbia in 1985. It is a dramatization showing justice policy and practices concerning wife assault, produced primarily for justice system professionals, people working with community agencies, and others working with victims and offenders. It shows various scenarios of wife assault and includes follow up with police, the effect upon the family, court proceedings and sentencing and counselling.