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Making documentary films and reality videos : a practical guide to planning, filming, and editing documentaries of real events

Hampe, Barry.

The moon and more

Dessen, Sarah.

"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.

Mary Cassatt

Describes the career and life of painter Mary Cassatt.

Buddhism

Explores the history of Buddhism, the story of the Gautama Buddha, and how different cultures around the world have adapted Buddhism..

Judaism

The history of the world's first monotheistic religion, explored through Jewish culture, sacred texts and holidays.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!.

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.

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?.

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?'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Family across the sea

Carrier, Tim (dir.)

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.