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The moon and more
"During her last summer at home before leaving for college, Emaline begins a whirlwind romance with Theo, an assistant documentary filmmaker who is in town to make a movie."--Provided by publisher.
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The girl with the wrong name
With no memory of a long ago traumatic night, a seventeen-year-old aspiring documentary maker uses her camera to keep the world at a safe distance, but her latest subject, a forlorn and mysterious boy, sends her into a perilous, mind-bending journey.
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Mary Cassatt
Describes the career and life of painter Mary Cassatt.
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Tough guise violence, media, and the crisis in masculinity
Looks systematically at the relationship between the images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the end of the 20th century. Jackson Katz argues that there is a crisis in masculinity and that some of the guises offered to men as a solution (e.g., rugged individualism, violence) come loaded with attendant dangers to women, as well as other men.
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Buddhism
Explores the history of Buddhism, the story of the Gautama Buddha, and how different cultures around the world have adapted Buddhism..
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Islam
Explores the Islamic culture& history through the daily life and rituals of Muslims around the world.
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Judaism
The history of the world's first monotheistic religion, explored through Jewish culture, sacred texts and holidays.
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Hinduism
The history of Hinduism, one of the oldest and largest of the world's religions, and its impact on world culture and literature.
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Protestant Christianity
Examines how the reformations of 16th century Europe sparked Protestant Christianity in reaction to the Roman Catholic church, and the numerous Protestant denominations that have developed over the centuries.
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Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christianity
Examines the interwoven histories of these two distinct branches of Christianity.
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Martin Luther
In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his treatise to the doors of the Wittenberg Cathedral and forever changed the Christian world. This previously obscure German monk unleashed forces that would plunge Europe into war and chaos. He offered the Christian world a new vision of man's relationship with God and, in turn, redefined man's relationship with authority in general, bringing the collapse of the medieval world and the birth of the modern age.
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W.E.B. Du Bois a biography in four voices
In this film four prominent African-American writers each narrate a period in the life of the sociologist and author W.E.B. Du Bois, and describe his impact on their work. They chronicle Du Bois' role as a founder of the NAACP, organizer of the first Pan-African Congress, editor of Crisis, a journal of the black cultural renaissance, and author of a series of landmark sociological studies. Anathematized during the McCarthy years, Du Bois immigrated to Ghana, the first independent African state, where he died.
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Bamboozled
"In a searing parody of American television, Bamboozled takes a humorous look at how race, ratings and the pursuit of power lead to a network executive's stunning rise and tragic downfall."--Container.
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The color of fear
Examines the pain and anguish that racism has caused in the lives of North American men of Asian, European, Latin and African descent. Out of their confrontations and struggles to understand and trust each other emerges an emotional and insightful portrayal into the type of dialogue most of us fear, but hope will happen sometime in our lifetime.
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Mirrors of privilege : making whiteness visible
Features the up close and personal stories of white activists and their ongoing journeys of transformation. Participants will talk about being unconscious about their learned and internalized sense of white supremacy. They will share what was required and what actions they took to move through the common first stages of denial, defensiveness, guilt, fear and shame into making solid commitments towards ending racism. The video uses art, theatre, movement, photographs and music to amplify stories that share richly varied experiences and life processes informed by deep reflection and social justice action. The individuals' interviews will also be enhanced by historical sources, spoken word, photographs and video archives which will serve to address systemic racist oppression.
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Race the power of an illusion
Episode one explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. Episode two questions the belief that race has always been with us. It traces the race concept to the European conquest of the Americas. Episode three focuses on how our institutions shape and create race.
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A force more powerful a century of nonviolent conflict
This six-part series tells one of the 20th century's most important and least-known stories-- how nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian rule. In South Africa in 1907, Mohandas Gandhi led Indian immigrants in a nonviolent fight for rights denied them by white rulers. The power that Gandhi pioneered has been used by underdogs on every continent and in every decade of the 20th century to fight for their rights and freedom.
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A force more powerful a century of nonviolent conflict
This six-part series tells one of the 20th century's most important and least-known stories-- how nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian rule. In South Africa in 1907, Mohandas Gandhi led Indian immigrants in a nonviolent fight for rights denied them by white rulers. The power that Gandhi pioneered has been used by underdogs on every continent and in every decade of the 20th century to fight for their rights and freedom.
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A century of women [Part 1] Work and family
First of three programs in a series that tells the story of women in the 20th century--how they lived, loved, worked, played, and changed the course of American history.
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A century of women. [Part 2] sexuality and social justice
Second of three programs in a series that tells the story of women in the 20th century--how they lived, loved, worked, played, and changed the course of American history. This program looks at women's efforts to shape their own destinies and establish a system of justice for not only themselves, but for all Americans.
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A century of women. [Part 3] Image and popular culture
Third of three programs in a series that tells the story of women in the 20th century--how they lived, loved, worked, played, and changed the course of American history.
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Paycheck to paycheck : the life and times of Katrina Gilbert
A single mother of three struggles to make ends meet. Filmed in Chatttanooga, TN.
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People like us social class in America
Interviews with Americans from diverse socioeconomic groups reveal the myths and realities of social class in the United States.
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Lost boys of Sudan
The journey of two teenage Sudanese boys, orphaned by their war torn country, who traveled to America looking for a safer environment and learning to cope with the unfamiliar complexities of contemporary American society.
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A history of slavery in America
This comprehensive program chronicles the institution of slavery in North America, beginning with the notorious "middle passage" through Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction. Expert interviews and archival photographs help to describe family life, religion, resistance to enslavement, the Abolitionist Movement and post-war difficulties of newly emancipated people, dispelling the myth that slavery was a passive state and highlighting the persistant struggle by African Americans to end it.
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All God's children
"A documentary short about the Black Church's embracement of African American Lesbians and gay men as dedicated members of its spiritual family."
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Before & after stonewall 25th anniversary edition
On June 28, 1969, the NYPD raided the Stonewall Inn, a mafia-run gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the gay pride movement had begun. These two seminal documentaries tell the remarkable tale of how homosexuals, a heretofore hidden and despised group, became a vibrant and integral part of America's family, and, indeed, the world community. Featuring Dorothy Allison, Michael Bronski, Rita Mae Brown, Barney Frank, Barbara Gittings, Arnie Kantrowitz, Larry Kramer, Craig Lucas, Armistead Maupin, Leslea Newman, Barbara Smith, and many more!.
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Paragraph 175
Discusses the old German penal code that justified the persecution of gays during World War II and interviews with the less than ten known homosexual survivors of Nazi concentration camps.
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The weather underground
In the early '70s, the radically enraged, bomb-planting fringe group call Weathermen had the distinction of being as alienated from the anti-war counterculture as the counterculture movement was from the rest of America. The group planned to blow up an empty building, but on March 6, 1970, an explosive accidentally went off in the New York Greenwich Village area, killing three of its own members and turning the rest of its members into outlaws on the run.
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Lives for sale
Investigative documentary exposes the human side of illegal immigration, including the black market trade in human beings. "Tracing the stories of two young women who were trafficked, one in California, the other in Florida, the documentary asks why and how this could happen in the United States -- and what can be done to stem the most lucrative criminal enterprise after drugs and gun sales."--container.
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Chattahoochee from water war to water vision
A documentary for Georgia Public Broadcasting about the bitter, 20-year old struggle between Alabama, Florida and Georgia over one of our most precious resources - water. What are the issues involved? How can they be resolved before the waters run dry?.
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Scottsboro an American tragedy
In March 1931, two white women stepped from a box car in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the 20th century. The trial of the nine falsely accused teens would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give birth to the civil rights movement.
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Somewhere between
In profiling Chinese adoptees in contemporary America, this deeply moving documentary illustrates that even the most specific of experiences can be universally relatable. These four American teens reveal a heartbreaking sense of self-awareness as they attempt to answer the uniquely human question, 'Who am I?'.
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To be and to have
At the center of this intimate and touching story is Georges Lopez - a remarkably devoted teacher responsible for nurturing a dozen children ages 3-11 in all their school subjects and life's lessons. Demonstrates how a teacher, if well trained, dedicated and sensitive to a child's educational and emotional needs, can hugely influence a generation of children at their most critical time of development.
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Un chien andalou
Un chien Andalou (16 min.) a surrealistic movie was written over the course of a three day exchange of fantasies and dreams with Salvador Dali. Land without bread (27 min.) made in 1932 and is Bunuel's only documentary film. It portrays the everyday lives of indigent peasants in one of Spain's most desolate regions.
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Parasites eating us alive
Looks at parasites--some benign, some deadly--that make humans their hosts. Examples are discussed in detail from the three major categories: single-celled; multicellular, or worms; and ectoparasites, those that live on the body as opposed to inside it. Experts show how these organisms proliferate through vectors, creatures that transmit parasites, such as the mosquito that carries malaria or the fly that transmits "river blindness." Interviews with victims and footage of parasitic damage are combined with commentary.
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Science of the sexes
"Growing up" episode explores the issue of nature versus nurture through a cross-cultural study of two teenagers on different continents. "Different by design" episode explores the physical and mental aspects of human sexuality from adulthood to old age.
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Science of the sexes
"Growing up" episode explores the issue of nature versus nurture through a cross-cultural study of two teenagers on different continents. "Different by design" episode explores the physical and mental aspects of human sexuality from adulthood to old age.
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The Secret life of the brain
This series explores the startling new map of the brain that has emerged from the past decade of neuroscience and shares a revelatory view of this most complicated organ, which now contradicts much of what we previously believed. Narrated by actress Blair Brown, the series tells stories through a mix of personal histories, expert commentary and cutting-edge animation. Viewers will not only learn startling new truths about the brain, they will voyage inside it.
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Unnatural causes is inequality making us sick?
Sounds the alarm about the extent of our alarming socio-economic and racial inequities in health-and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect ... It turns out there's much more to our health than bad habits, health care or unlucky genes. The social conditions in which we are born, live and work profoundly affect our well-being and longevity.
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Pollen nation
"Every fall, in an abondoned gravel pit in northern Minnesota, beekeeper Jeff Anderson carefully steers a forklift through a maze of beehives. With expert precision, he lifts several hundred of the buzzing wooden boxes onto the flatbed of a semi-truck. Then, he straps down the load and heads west for California. Up and down our nation's highways, Jeff and a small band of migratory beekeepers follow the seasons and their blooms, delivering honeybees to farmers with crops in need of pollination." -- container.
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Through African eyes
When first seen in the Western world in 1900, African art was viewed as strange and exotic. Yet these works, the booty of colonial wars, would influence Picasso, Matisse, and Modigliani and change the course of 20th century art. This program, while recognizing this impact, introduces noted experts who explain the importance of reappraising African art within its own cultural context. Then local Malian inhabitants in a Bamana village and the walled city of Djenne comment on the function of art and the role of the artist in their society.
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Buena Vista Social Club
In 1996, music legend Ry Cooder went to Cuba to search for buried treasure. He found gold. Looking for lost songs and forgotten singers, Cooder discovered an exotic land of passion, sensuality and music.
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That high lonesome sound
Shot in the 1960s, the three films released on this video capture the vanishing landscape of traditional music in America and the source of its power.
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Jazz a film by Ken Burns
10 episodes tracing the history of jazz from its roots in the African-American community of New Orleans to its heights and continuing presence.
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Jazz a film by Ken Burns
10 episodes tracing the history of jazz from its roots in the African-American community of New Orleans to its heights and continuing presence.
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Jazz a film by Ken Burns
10 episodes tracing the history of jazz from its roots in the African-American community of New Orleans to its heights and continuing presence.
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Jazz a film by Ken Burns
10 episodes tracing the history of jazz from its roots in the African-American community of New Orleans to its heights and continuing presence.
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Jazz a film by Ken Burns
10 episodes tracing the history of jazz from its roots in the African-American community of New Orleans to its heights and continuing presence.
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Jazz a film by Ken Burns
10 episodes tracing the history of jazz from its roots in the African-American community of New Orleans to its heights and continuing presence.
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Jazz a film by Ken Burns
10 episodes tracing the history of jazz from its roots in the African-American community of New Orleans to its heights and continuing presence.
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Jazz a film by Ken Burns
10 episodes tracing the history of jazz from its roots in the African-American community of New Orleans to its heights and continuing presence.
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Jazz a film by Ken Burns
10 episodes tracing the history of jazz from its roots in the African-American community of New Orleans to its heights and continuing presence.
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Jazz a film by Ken Burns
10 episodes tracing the history of jazz from its roots in the African-American community of New Orleans to its heights and continuing presence.
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Koyaanisqatsi Life out of balance
Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously: crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. This film presents a concert of visual images set to the music of Philip Glass that progesses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own manmade environment that is devoid of nature.
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The Searchers
Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
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Touching the void
In 1985, two young British friends travelled to a remote corner of Peru. Ambitious mountaineers, their aim was to conquer the unclimbed west face of a notorious 21,000 ft. peak "Siula Grande". Their story has become part of mountaineering legend.
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The wild bunch
The brutal story of violent men who lived during the Mexican revolution in the year 1913. It portrays a band of magnificent losers in a dying lawless West.
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The Yes Men
"A comedic documentary that follows The Yes Men, a small group of prankster activists, as they gain world-wide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization on television and at conferences around the world. When two members of The Yes Men, Andy and Mike, set up a fake WTO website that is mistaken for the real thing, they play along and soon find themselves invited to important functions as WTO representatives. Delighted to represent the organization they politically oppose, Andy and Mike don thrift-store suits and set out to shock unwitting audiences with darkly comic satire that highlights the worst aspects of global free trade"--IMDB website.
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The Tuskegee Airmen
In 1941 a select group of African Americans make their way into the heart of the segregated South with dreams of becoming their country's first black fighter pilots. They fought two wars, one against the Nazis abroad, and one against racism at home.
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Triumph of the will Triumph des Willens : das Dokument vom Reichsparteitag 1934
This film, commissioned by Adolf Hitler to record the 1934 Nazi party rally in Nuremberg, is the "most powerful piece of propaganda ever produced". Included are many scenes of gatherings, marches, and parades. The viewer will also hear speeches given by Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, and Hess as well as samples of monumental architecture designed by Albert Speer.
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The ground truth
Documents the stories of American heroes, ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq and the challenges they faced upon their return home.
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Darwin's nightmare
Documentary film that exposes the poverty and misery of the people living on the shores on Lake Victoria in Tanzania who are dependent upon fishing the Nile perch from the lake for their meager earnings. The fish are exported by air to Europe to be sold cheaply and the planes that arrive to transport the fish at first seem to arrive empty, but turn out to carry weapons to Africa and fish away.
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Haiti rising celebrating the first black republic
Contains two films: Black Dawn and Haitian Pilgrimage. Black Dawn is an animated tale of Haiti's history and foundation. Haitian Pilgrimage is a documentary about a Haitian-American family who visits Haiti. They explore Haitians' pride in their African roots.
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This house of power
A tribute to the role of the church in the African-American experience, this documentary traces the development of the church from its origins as an "invisible institution" among the slaves to its present-day role as a major force for social change.
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Family across the sea
Shows how scholars have uncovered he connections between the Gullah people of South Carolina and the people of Sierra Leone. Documents how the Gullahs incorporated many aspects of African culture in the daily life of the plantations.
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