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41 film(s) found
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Chinese sculptor and painter Liao Yibai recounts his remarkable life. He depicts his childhood in his imaginative and ironic stainless-steel sculptures, reflecting the complex cultural relationship between China and the US. more »
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Two Peruvian musicians journey into the rainforest to preserve the traditional tribal music and instruments before they vanish completely. (more) more »
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Rebiya Kadeer is a human rights activist twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She is the impassioned though graying exiled leader who continues to lobby for the Uyghurs, a Muslim people whose ancestral home was annexed by the Chinese in 1949. more »
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The film tells the story of the building of a great bridge, and of its brilliant engineer, Othmar Amman, more »
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Before long, more than 550 cities worldwide will have a population of more than one million people. With such rapid and unplanned growth, many of these cities lack the planning and infrastructure to accommodate this population boom. Cities on Speed shows how four metropolises are rising to this challenge. What are the visions for solving their deepest issues, and will they be successful? more »
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When Cairo’s population remained at twelve million people, the city was neat and tidy. Today, Cairo has mushroomed to an estimated twenty million inhabitants. To keep up with the waste of the growing populace, six giant garbage villages have evolved into towns within the city. As the issues—and the garbage piles—visibly mount, officials struggle to determine how to keep the city’s trash in check. more »
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Shanghai is a unusual city, bursting with four thousand skyscrapers, thousands of miles of highway, millions of citizens, and thousands of government planners. To make way for new skyscrapers, roads, and industries, vast communities are being expropriated. Can government influence help control Shanghai’s growing pains? more »
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Although hemp is used to make rope, paper and even food and oils, a war has been waged against the plant because of its drug properties. Yet there are thirty five maladies and symptoms on which marijuana has a beneficial effect. more »
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The extraordinary life of Pearl Buck (1892-1973), the child of missionaries who was raised in China and developed a deep affection for the Chinese people. She became one of the most popular American writers of the 20th Century, especially for her best-selling novel, The Good Earth. Archival footage and interviews provide unique insight into China in the first half of the 20th century more »
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This is a unique chronicle of the Ipini, whose nomadic, hunter/gatherer society has gone through the profound change to a money economy over a ten-year period. more »
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The grandson of Mahatma Gandhi is an inspiring leader in India , seeking to fulfill the spiritual mission of his grandfather. more »
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An intimate portrayal of the lives of three runaway girls. All are the victims of heartbreaking family life, yet each shows the capacity of life-affirming resilience. more »
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This is a wry look at the way parents, scientists, and the baby industry try to give young ones a competitive edge. more »
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This film focuses on the debate between the established pharmaceutical industry and the manufacturers of low-cost medicine, The staggeringly high prices of medicines all over the world are a matter of life and death to millions of people suffering with HIV/AIDS in Africa. more »
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Using archival footage and interviews, the filmmaker creates a multi-layered portrait of growing up in New York’s El Barrio in the ‘30s and ‘40s more »
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This fascinating film depicts the Taigana, an unusual tribe of nomads living in the mountainous Hovsgol region of Mongolia, near the Siberian border. more »
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This is an inspiring story of a group of homeless people who renovate an abandoned building in New York’s Lower East Side in order to obtain an affordable place to live. They are helped by Habitat for Humanity. more »
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A group of septuagenarians in the South Bronx, after a life of hard work and struggle, now have time for themselves. They have immersed themselves in a drama group at the local senior citizen center where they create theater pieces from their own life experiences. more »
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Without resorting to sensationalism, the film explores the long-practiced custom of female circumcision and its ongoing practice in many cultures, particularly across Africa more »
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First-hand accounts of the pioneering women who settled the Israeli kibbutz. more »
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Terror at Home provides an unflinching look at some of the personal stories that lie behind the staggering statistics about domestic violence, a crime that cuts across all lines—racial, educational, and financial. more »
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In Texan communities along the Rio Grande, there is a vibrant mixture of Spanish Catholicism and Indian mysticism. Various saints and religious figures appear to the believers in the shape of everyday objects. more »
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In the Mexican American community around the Rio Grande, folk healing is still an established practice. This film follows three healers, or curandera, as they use a variety of spiritual and herbal techniques. more »
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A richly illustrated account of the 15th Century voyages that opened European trade with Africa and Asia.(in 2 parts) more »
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In Japan, the old system of arranged marriages is giving way to the "love match," with dramatic social consequences. more »
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An illuminating portrayal of a vanishing world -- the largely rural region of the Mississippi delta which has been home to a thriving Jewish community for over a century. Jews became an integral part of delta life, forging a hybrid identity that was deeply Jewish and distinctively Southern. more »
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This is a portrait of Angelo, a widower after thirty-seven years of marriage, as he begins to build a new life. During the process of 'starting over' he discovered afternoon ballroom dancing -- a new passion that is becoming a senior phenomenon. more »
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Explores the conditions that have led to escalating rates of teen pregnancy and examines the role that public schools can play in stemming the tide of early and unwanted pregnancy. more »
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Circus School is a rare glimpse into one of China’s most revered institutions, the Shanghai Circus School, where students ranging in age from six to fifteen must complete a grueling seven-year program before working as professionals. It captures the breathtaking feats of gymnastics executed by a new generation of performers in training. more »
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Faith in Pentecostal Christianity, a blend of deep-rooted African traditions and imported values of Christianity, helped South African blacks survive appalling hardships and helped stabilize the new South Africa. more »
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In a mountainous area of Albania, an ancestral code of laws places women in the bottom rank of society. But there is one loophole. The ancient laws allow certain women to take an oath announcing their intentions to remain virgins. These "Sworn Virgins" dress, act, talk and drink like men and are respected as any man would be. more »
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In 1962, Michael Harrington’s book The Other America was a groundbreaking study of poverty that was probably the driving force behind the "war on poverty." Archival footage and fascinating interviews explore why such poverty still exists despite a booming economy. more »
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This beautifully photgraphed film documents an unusual healing ceremony in Senegal, where a young women is cured of post-partum depression. more »
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A vibrant portrait of pluralistic 21st-century Jewish identities across the globe which concludes "Judaism has no color." more »
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Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness is a riveting portrait of writer Sholem Aleichem, whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. more »
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Alain Desjacques, a well-known ethnomusicologist, takes us on a pilgrimage to find and record the best traditional musicians on the rugged, remote steppes of Mongolia. more »
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Twenty-year-old Adam Abdul Hakeem was the first person in American judicial history to be found innocent by reason of self defense in a police shooting case. more »
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This is a portrait of a country family in the Auvergne province who typify how the traditions are slowly fading away in the face of modern life. We see the disintegration of rural areas in industrialized nations. more »
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Lost and Sound is a moving and beautiful film that weaves its way through a startling world of sound and silence via the ears and brains of three extraordinary people trying to discover music after losing their hearing. more »
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Each year, some 60,000 young Mormons are sent abroad to seek converts to their religion in an obligatory rite of passage. The film contrasts their naive idealism with the realities of such missions. more »
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For forty-five years the Congo waited for free elections. But before the election, several important items had to be in place, namely, an electoral register and voters’ cards. And these things presented huge problems in a country with limited infrastructure and security. more »
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