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88 film(s) found
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Depression is the hidden epidemic of our industrial society. Often it is unrecognized or denied. This film gives an overview of the disorder and includes an interview with William Styron. more »
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Every September a group of nomad women in Niger travel by camel caravan across the stark desert, 660 miles each way, in order to sell their tribe's dates. The women organize and lead the caravan without men! more »
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From ancient China, India, Islam, and the Graeco Roman world, we see how the library radiated knowledge and spiritual values, and facilitated the cross fertilization of ideas from one culture to another. more »
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Save and Burn puts the institution of the library within a startling political context. Although generally considered preservers of culture, libraries are subject to the ideologies and violence of their time and place. The film addresses the commercialization of libraries, the irresponsible closing of libraries, and their cultural debt to the Orient. more »
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This inspiring love story from Norway follows Kare and his girlfriend Maybritt , both of whom are affected with Down syndrome. They go on dates, fall in love and become engaged. But the course of true love is never easy! more »
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We Are Family takes a look at what life is really like in homosexual families, focusing on parenting and well-being of the children. more »
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This raucous yet poignant documentary takes us into the lives of three Serbian brothers who are without wives in a remote mountain village of eight inhabitants, all of them single men. more »
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In post 9/11 America, civil liberties have been curtailed in the name of national security, and immigrants have been separated from their families. This film follows four families whose lives were permanently altered. more »
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Formerly a thriving, prosperous French possession inhabited by descendants of African slaves, Haiti is now one of the poorest countries in the world, while an economic boom linked to tourism has occurred in the Dominican Republic. Their border is plagued by daily violence and tension. more »
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When Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997, the frontier between the former British territory and Shenzhen, the prosperous special economic zone, theoretically disappeared. However, in actuality the border is still closed and integration is slow to occur. more »
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Since the former Portuguese colony Macao was ceded to China in 1999, it has become China's "Empire of Gambling." It derives all its income from tourism, thanks to its sleek new casinos and shopping malls. Thousands are employed by the casinos, with 80% of the population indirectly making their living from them more »
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The 40,000 Sioux Lakota Native Americans living on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota are the poorest inhabitants in America. In this film, they describe the abysmal conditions there, with neither a bank, a store, an industry or technology of any kind. more »
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The Johore Strait separates the highly prosperous city-state of Singapore from the rapidly developing economic "tiger" of Malaysia. As the film illustrates, they are nevertheless extremely interdependent. more »
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This artfully made documentary shows that Alzheimer’s disease need not be the end of a loving relationship. Filmmaker Brenda King stood by her mother from her first lapse through her decline more »
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This delightful film shows ten young women who aspire to to be dancers in musical theater as they take a master class with choreographer Ann Reinking and Gwen Verdon. They share with us their insecurities about their bodies. more »
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Dancer and choreographer Ann Reinking, works with a group of teenagers with Marfan Syndrome, a little-known and potentially fatal connective tissue disorder, designing movement and dance that capitalizes on their shaky long bodies and unexpectedly inspires their self- esteem. more »
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This heartwarming film follows a group of older adults who work in a factory where the average age is 73 and there is no fixed retirement. Both the workers (some in their late 80’s) and the owners reap huge rewards from this enlightened policy. more »
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Mr. Wong is a wealthy business man who returned to China from Canada. He has made it his mission to rescue historic buildings of old Shanghai that would otherwise fall prey to the wrecking ball during an unprecedented building boom. more »
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Hansel Mieth is the compelling tale of a pioneering woman photojournalist who created some of the most indelible images of mid-twentieth century America. During the late 1930s and 1940s -- the golden age of pictorial magazines -- Mieth's images of strikers, criminals, scientists, cowboys, Native Americans, and countless others appeared in every major publication in America. more »
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For three years journalist Michael Schmidt played a dangerous double game, insinuating himself into the inner circle of German neo-Nazis. The result is a disturbing documentary of racial and and religious hatred being bred into a new generation more »
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This film seeks out traces of the once thriving world of the Jewish community in western Ukraine. Before WW II a rich culture with Jewish music abounding and a thriving Yiddish threater existed there. The film weaves the words of writers such as Isaak Babel, Martin Buber and others, with the experiences of those still living. more »
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This inspiring film tells the story of a poetry, painting, and photography workshop and its profound impact on three people deemed by the criminal justice system to be "not guilty by reason of insanity." more »
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A portrait of a young black man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. For years in and out of mental institutions, he shares with us his startling past. more »
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Chinese author Jung Chang's grandmother was born into a still feudal society, and became a warlord's concubine. Her mother, became a high ranking Communist Party official. This film brings to life the memories Chang recorded in her best-selling autobiography, Wild Swans. more »
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Because gay and lesbian parents have broken the traditional family mold, they have even more choices to make. How will they get a child? Who will be the designated parents? How will they define each parents' role? Will their children have a difficult time socially? more »
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This charming film contrasts ideas of marriage, courtship and divorce between generations and cultures. It follows Hindu Smita Acharyya and Catholic Remi Boudreau who, in order to escape the complications of a large, family wedding, decided to elope to Las Vegas. But they can't escape, and are married again, in a Bengali style wedding arranged by Smita's mother. more »
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Living under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Nadia spent eleven years masquerading as a boy in order to support her family. Years later, she reclaims her identity as a woman. more »
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This film focuses on an African woman who presides over the cloth market in Lome, Togo. She is a powerful woman treated with deference who owns a prized possesion, a chauffeured Mercedes Benz. more »
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In this disarmingly intimate and revealing film three generations of women in an Iranian family describe their struggles for survival within marriages founded on Iranian traditions. more »
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With gentle humor, this short fiction film captures the plight of a young man caught between the traditional ways of his immigrant Indian parents and the freer lifestyle of his American peers. more »
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Recent research into the human brain is radically changing how we look at the potential for neurological recovery. Psychiatrist and author Dr. Norman Doidge meets pioneering scientists who are proving that our brains can be "rewired" so that stroke victims and other brain-injured patients can regain their lost skills. more »
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This profound documentary investigates the relationship of human violence to fear of mortality. Experts describe death anxiety as a possible root cause of many human behaviors on psychological, spiritual, and cultural levels. more »
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A midwife in Zimbabwe tries to reconcile traditional birth practices with modern methods. more »
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Original intent is the judicial philosophy stating the US Constitution should be interpreted in the way the Founding Fathers understood it in 1789, rather than a flexible legal document meant to evolve with society. This film argues that the far right is using originalism to advance a radically conservative political agenda. more »
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Girls in White Dresses is the delightful chronicle of young middle-class African American women in Oxnard, California, who eagerly participate in the coming-of-age ritual of the debutante ball. more »
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This affectionate, nostalgic film recalls the Jewish family resorts that flourished in the 1930's and '40's. Built in response to restrictive policies that excluded Jews from established resorts, Monteith Inn enabled a Jewish clientele to experience the fun of a vacation in the country. This is the real story behind the Hollywood film "Dirty Dancing". more »
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During the Nazi years, some 17,000 European Jews fled to Shanghai, where no visa was required. Juxtaposing interviews with survivors with archival photographs, this film recounts the days when Jews lived in China under Japanese rule and Shanghai became a place of refuge. more »
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The use of embryonic stem cells for medical research has unleashed passionate political controversy nationwide. The documentary explores both sides of the issue. more »
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The world-famous Chilean author reveals her passionate engagement with life and politics. The author of nearly twenty novels, her books have been translated in over thirty languages. In this film, she reveals how events in her life impacted on her writing. more »
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The Bedouin of the deserts of Arabia and the Middle East have developed a system of law and order which evolved from their harsh environment. The Bisha ceremony is the ultimate ordeal for testing the truthfullness of the speaker. more »
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Hmong refugees have been transplanted from mountain villages in Laos to cities in the US. The film shows how they practice their ancient shamanic rituals in urban America. more »
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A sensitive study of a community of Laotian refugees in Rockford, Illinois, who are torn between preserving their cultural identity and adapting to their new life. more »
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Based on Dwight Conquergood's research, this documentary gives voice to the street youth and reveals their underground culture. It weaves an intricate web of symbols and passions, territory and brotherhood, honor and—all too often—death. more »
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Seen through the eyes of his fourteen-year-old daughter, a Hmong Shaman, grapples with life in America. more »
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Shows a pioneering treatment which is based on the autistic child’s hypersensitivity to sound. The treatment combines auditory therapy and counseling. more »
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The turmoil dyslexia can impose on a family is captured in this documentary of a mother’s eighteen -year struggle with the education system in an effort to get her son a good education. more »
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Challenges the misconception that women do not get heart disease. In fact, they are often misdiagnosed. more »
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Part documentary, part dance performance, this film was inspired by the music of blues harmonica player Sonny Terry. His work, Harmonica Breakdown, is deeply rooted in its social and historical context. more »
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A close-up view of an eight-year-old boy who works as a domestic in Calcutta. Despite his hard life, he feels fortunate to have a job that gives him food as wages. more »
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Modern Palestinian women face dramatic choices concerning their role in a free Palestinian homeland. Many female activists, for ideological and symbolic reasons choose to wear the veil and don't regard it as a symbol of oppression. more »
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This film documents the tribal custom of honor killings which permits a family member to kill a woman who has sullied the family's moral standard. This film focuses on Palestinian villages where such killings are sanctioned and go unpunished. ( more »
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This is the story of a remarkable Canadian-American missionary couple who settled, in 1929, among the Montagnard tribes of Vietnam's highlands. They lived, worked and filmed there for fifty years. This film was produced by their grandson more »
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The experiences of a generation of African-American women during the Great Migration north are described in this engaging portrait of a 77-year old washroom attendant. more »
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In this film we meet eight elderly gays and lesbians who lived through an era when homosexuality was not acknowledged, and who battled for self-esteem and survival in a "straight world." more »
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This video documents the inspiring example of Four Women, Inc., an independent abortion and gynecology clinic in a small, post-industrial Massachusetts town. It presents a rare and intimate look at the daily work of providing excellent abortion care. more »
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The focus is on three vulnerable women refugees who must cope with being uprooted. One is a 13 year-old Vietnamese girl living in a camp in Malaysia, another a widow from Mozambique and the third is a Salvadorian mother living precariously with three children in Costa Rica. more »
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Louise Bennett-Covelly, a Jamaican icon, is an ebullient performer, folklorist, playwright and poet. She has spent her life furthering Jamaican language, raising the patois dialect to an art level. more »
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Visioning Tibet chronicles the passion of ophthalmologist Marc Lieberman, founder of the Tibet Vision Project, to end preventable blindness in Tibet . He educates Tibetan doctors to perform cataract surgery more »
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A five-part series showing how Africans themselves are grappling with domestic issues. Filmed in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia Zimbabwe and Mozambique more »
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A five-part series showing how Africans themselves are grappling with domestic issues. Filmed in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia Zimbabwe and Mozambique more »
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A five-part series showing how Africans themselves are grappling with domestic issues. Filmed in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia Zimbabwe and Mozambique more »
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A five-part series showing how Africans themselves are grappling with domestic issues. Filmed in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia Zimbabwe and Mozambique more »
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A five-part series showing how Africans themselves are grappling with domestic issues. Filmed in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia Zimbabwe and Mozambique more »
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A five-part series showing how Africans themselves are grappling with domestic issues. Filmed in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia Zimbabwe and Mozambique more »
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This richly photographed film shows a special ceremony performed in a remote village in northern Bali to purify the village. Two young girls dance and chant in accordance with strict Balinese traditions. more »
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By examining the early history of the area, the film shows how blacks influenced British Columbia to join the Confederation of Canada instead of becoming part of the United State more »
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This engrossing series chronicles the black experience in Canada from their arrival as slaves in the 17th century to their current achievements. more »
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Few people know that slavery existed in Canada as it did in the United States. Using illustrations, maps, archival documents and photographs, it shows how slaves were kept and sold in Canada until 1863, thirty-two years before the U.S. Emancipation Proclamation. more »
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The population of Nova Scotia ebbed and flowed from the major wars that shaped Canada and the United States. The Jones family experienced slavery and segregation since southerners from the United States had settled in Nova Scotia. more »
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The Duvall family are descendents of fugitive slaves who fled New Orleans by way of the Underground Railway in the 1860's. There were, at that time, already 25,000 free black people in Canada. more »
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This documentary focuses on the anti-war movement within the armed forces. It highlights the intersection of the civil rights and anti-war movements, and the ethics of whether to follow orders which one feels are immoral. more »
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This film provides a memorable portrait of a couple living in a tiny oasis outside Chinguetti, surviving despite the forces of nature that buffet them more »
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Stolen Memories follows three people in their fifties who have been recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. All are married with children, and struggle to come to terms with an incurable illness usually thought of as an "old people's disease". more »
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The Bishop of East Timor, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, dares to speak out against Indonesia's relentless oppression. more »
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Art and everyday life come together in this intimate story about a Balinese family whose gamelan music and Legong dance tradition span four generations. more »
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A new phenomenon in the global economy: toll-free telephone numbers are often answered by Indians impersonating local operators. This film follows a group of university graduates as they prepare themselves for prestigious jobs in Indian call centers, learning to speak and think like their international callers. more »
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This documentary on gang rape and acquaintance rape is a compelling view of what is happening on college campuses. more »
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In Samburu culture the women do all the work. In 1990 a small group of women decided to band together and create their own village. They prospered without men! more »
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This film features six dancers, who at the height of their powers were among the world's most praised artists. Thanks to the vision of Jiri Kylian of Netherlands Dance Theatre III, these superb dancers have been able to continue their careers beyond the age of forty and in remarkable performances break all stereotypes of the older dancer. more »
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This film takes us to New Lots, in East Brooklyn, New York, a community plagued with unemployment, drug abuse and violence. A charismatic preacher, Dr. Johnny Ray Youngblood, infused new life into New Lots through his parish work. more »
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This film explores the strange and relatively unknown world of sleep—a state in which we spend approximately one third of our lives. It shows how the discovery of REM in the early 1950s brought about a much broader understanding of the mechanism of sleep. more »
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The Poet's View takes viewers inside the homes and lives of our era's foremost poetic talents as they reminisce about their formative years, reveal their poetic processes, and read some of their best-known works. more »
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This addition to the popular Poet's View series focuses on Pulitzer Prize winning poet C.K. Williams. more »
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Seven-year-old Jackson has light skin and curly hair and a remarkable heritage from both sides of his family. In this inspiring film, his two grandmothers from different racial, cultural and religious backgrounds, look back over lives to pass along to him their acquired wisdom. more »
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]The Women of Summer is the emotionally riveting and previously untold story of the seventeen hundred blue collar women who participated in a controversial and inspired educational experiment known as The Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers from 1921 to 1938. more »
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In Ethiopia, a center of prostitution in Africa, girls as young as 9 years old are forced into the life by economic circumstances. Many become HIV infected, for condoms are seldom used. more »
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A two-part documentary on the conditions of women in today's economically oriented Chinese society. It visits four diverse parts of China more »
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The film uses the recent conflict over the worldwide steel market, dominated by the U.S., Brazil and the European Union, to explore the "economic war" generated by globalization. more »
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