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Through archival photographs and old newsreels, this documentary shows how coffee has shaped the economy, history and social structure of a large part of Latin America. more »
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A 'life skill center' where parents and professionals struggle to communicate wit and elicit response, from autistic people. more »
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This important film illuminates the issues surrounding the use of hydrogen instead of oil for energy. Experts caution that the world's oil reserves will be depleted in forty years. Jeremy Rifkin believes that hydrogen with renewable energy sources could free us from oil dependency and pollution. more »
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This multi-award winning program about childhood sexual abuse dramatizes the life story of victims who grew up never feeling safe in their own home. It is delicately told, with no graphic, sexual or violent scenes. more »
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An old purple t-shirt donated to charity in Toronto surfaces in a market in Costa Rica, an ironic aspect of global trade. more »
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This is an intimate look at the Yiu Mien, South Asian refugees who originally settled in the Pacific Northwest. They had to leave Laos because of their involvement with the CIA. Their adjustment to modern American life has its problems. more »
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This is an inspiring portrait of Winona La Duke, a unique and dynamic activist and member of the Anishinaabe tribe from the White Earth reservation in Northern Minnesota. A published author, she was named one of America's fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age by Time Magazine. more »
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Astonishingly intimate, this festival film is a record of four years in the life of a charming and precocious teenager growing into womanhood in a township outside Cape Town. She faces not only life in a “colored” community beset by gangsterism and drug abuse, but also the toughness and anger within her own family. more »
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E-Bay is the quintessential global market. This lively film travels from a small town in Germany, to the island of Sky, to a dusty village in Mexico and then to bustling cities in China to show how individuals all over the world are using the internet to buy and sell. more »
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Arguments between couples are an important aspect of interpersonal relationships. The video shows couples arguing over money, sex, alcohol and children. more »
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The Navajos, who for years were not allowed to use their own language in native schools, suddenly found themselves essential as code breakers during World War II. more »
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Haile Selassie, the late Emperor of Ethiopia, was and still is considered the living God and King by Rastafarians in Jamaica, Britain, the USA and other parts of the world. The film looks back to the 1930s when Ras Tafari was crowned Emperor and also covers the current Rasta scene. more »
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A Black European journalist in Zambia exposes the untold story of AIDS in Africa; how poverty and the complex nature of African culture and sexuality are hampering efforts to eradicate this horrifying disease. more »
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The people of Ova Himba in the desert of Namibia lived a harsh life as cattle herders, migrating between their encampments. The drought and the war in Angola forced them into shanty towns and took away their dignity. more »
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The film chronicles Hillary Rodham Clinton's early years as a good-natured and idealistic college student, and her evolution into politics. more »
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This lucid film untangles the complexities of the debt crisis, still an urgent economic problem. more »
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Victoria, a young Argentine woman, set out to find the truth about her parents who disappeared in 1978 during the military dictatorship. Painful questions emerge: were her parents terrorists? Did they suffer more because they were Jewish? more »
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In the early 1990’s there were two catastrophic attacks against Jews in Buenos Aires. A car bomb blew up the Israeli Embassy, and a powerful bomb destroyed a Jewish community center. No one has been successfully prosecuted. more »
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A portrait of the Electric Boogie Boys, a hip hop dance group from the South Bronx. For them street dancing is a form of self-expression and a way to cope with their environment. more »
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A portrait of the International High School in New York City where recent immigrants from 43 countries create the most multicultural classroom imaginable. The film shows how cultural and racial differences can be reconciled within an educational system. more »
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Six young men and women were filmed as they prepared for their high school prom, and then six years later as they reconcile their current lives with their former hopes and dreams. more »
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The film follows the phenomenal growth and influence of the Christian right on American politics, diplomacy, and culture. more »
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This compelling documentary is about rap as it is declaimed in the streets of New York, straight up -- without music. The young people demonstrate that their grim surroundings have not killed their ability to express their political thoughts. more »
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