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2008-2009 New Films
45 film(s) found
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This is a multi-award winning documentary about Japan's World War II biological weapons facility as seen from two points of view. The first half gives the perspective of the Chinese and describes the horrors, while the second half, using the same footage, gives the Japanese revisionist perspective. more »
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This no-holds-barred documentary follows the illicit opium industry, from the cultivation of the opium plants, to the processing of heroin, to the cross border smuggling that occurs between Afghanistan and Iran. more »
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Today, many ambitious young women in China feel they have to westernize their appearance through plastic surgery in order to get ahead. more »
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Seventeen year-old Adina Scheim from Toronto is becoming a boy named Ayden. Her father, a conservative rabbi, has a hard time dealing with this transformation. more »
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This documentary examines the painful legacy of Korean sex slaves under World War II Japanese colonial rule. It honors a few brave survivors who came forward to break the silence. more »
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During two days in September 1957 several courageous students and their parents desegregated the Nashville school system. more »
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In 1992, Deng Xiaoping's slogan "It is glorious to get rich" unleashed one of the biggest revolutions in thousand-year-old China. He overthrew the classless society and the equal division of the means of production and from then on, China stuck to a socialism with "Chinese characteristics." Which meant that many Chinese families have built successful companies, embracing all the lessons of capitalism. more »
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This lively film follows a group of Latina musicians as they break the gender barrier to perform mariachi music in America. more »
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When the US exploded two nuclear bombs over Japan in 1945, it was perhaps the largest demonstration of power in the history of civilization. But the bombs were just the starting point of a desperate arms race between the US and the Soviet Union. more »
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This documentary takes us inside the workings of Sharia law in a Western society, especially as it affects women seeking divorce. more »
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After ruling Cuba for almost 50 years, Castro stepped down. This film presents a unique account of his life and times, taken largely from private letters, correspondence, speeches, and interviews. more »
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An African drummer in Burkina Faso maintains the musical tradition of his ancestors and passes it on to his son. more »
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After sixty-five years of silence, Paul and Sally Taylor decide to undergo cochlear implant surgery and explore the unfamiliar world of sound. In this deeply personal memoir, the filmmaker documents the profound changes in her parents' lives after the surgery. more »
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Her Brilliant Career examines discrimination in the workplace and politics, and highlights a controversial program for women executives in the US. more »
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This colorful film portrays three Sami women of different generations as they follow the reindeer herds of Lapland. more »
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This film documents the lives of three women in New York, who for very different reasons have decided to have home deliveries with midwives. more »
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As the gap between the rich and the poor in India turns to a chasm, a renowned news journalist questions the social stability of a country that will soon enter the top five of the world's economic giants. more »
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China's students are marching in formation and chanting miliary slogans. But behind the closed dormitory doors at Nanjing University, they act surprisingly similar to Western students. A frank look at the generation torn between communism and capitalism. 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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A portrait of a family with three autistic children who have different degrees of the disorder. One with Aspergers is most verbal in defining his limitations. more »
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This short film explores the symbiotic relationship between the media, crime, and the judicial system and shows how today's 24/7 news culture and television dramas create a climate of fear. more »
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Interweaving past and present and combining fabulous archival film
and photographs with current documentary footage, The Lacandon Maya
tells the story of an isolated community catapulted into civilization
within the space of one generation. more »
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Every year thousands of migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala leave their families and homes, staking everything they own on a one-way trip to the promised land of the United States, and encountering unimaginable hurdles along the way. more »
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Life Sentence gives voice to six formerly incarcerated men and women, some of whom were sentenced as adolescents. Each spent between 12 and 26 years in prison, and must now find a way, economically and emotionally, to rebuild life on the outside. more »
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In the 1940s, an Asian American couple rose from the Chinatown nightclub circuit to the Ed Sullivan Show, watched by millions of Americans. This film details the couple's story and their struggles in an era of racism. more »
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Since 1980 when China decreed that couples should have just one child, there has been an alarming disproportion of young men over young women. Here are the personal stories behind a modern demographic crisis in China. more »
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As China changes at an awesome rate, becoming more industrialized, urban, and westernized, this film explores how this has impacted traditional relationships between men and women. more »
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This film details the enormous contribution to culture, politics, industry, and even human psychology made by Johann Gutenberg's fifteenth century achievement—the printing press. Writer and actor Stephen Fry energetically explores the story of the machine and of the man who created it. more »
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This documentary, filmed in Ho Chi Minh City, chronicles the search of an awkward 38-year-old Singaporean for a young, beautiful Vietnamese bride, with the help of a marriage broker. more »
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This disturbing documentary looks at findings that point to pollutants as the cause of endocrinal changes in the male reproductive system. 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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This fascinating biography relates the life and times of Irène Joliot-Curie, the eldest daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie. Although less well known than her parents, Irene and her husband, Frédéric, made a contribution to nuclear physics that was of equally ground-breaking significance. more »
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Since the economic reforms of the 1980s, runaway economic growth has turned China into a major creator of pollution. While the Chinese government ineffectually tries to grapple with its growing environmental problems, there is rising discontent among the masses. more »
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Shot over four years, "Prison Town USA" follows prison guards, inmates and their families as well as the townspeople of Susanville, California, to shed light on the human costs of incarceration. more »
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This film chronicles the inspiring journey of breast cancer survivors who compete in a challenging canoe race and prove once again their love of life and survival skills. more »
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The colorful film portrays the musicians of a mountainous region in the Peruvian Andes who have adopted saxophone music from New York's big band era. Dressed in sharp suits and fedoras from the 40s and 50s they blend divergent cultures as they play for village celebrations. more »
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Father Patrick Desbois, a French Catholic priest, was haunted by his grandfather's stories about the extermination carried out by the Einsatzgruppen firing squads in the Ukraine between 1941 and 1944. He relentlessly searches for the truth about the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews. more »
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In the 1940s, the uranium for the Manhattan Project was secretly supplied from a mine in the Canadian Arctic. Mined by indigenous people, there was little attention given to the fact that many in the community later sickened and died from various cancers. more »
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When Annika is given an eagle feather by a Native American visiting Sweden, she realizes it is a sacred object which should probably not be in her hands. She travels to American Indian communities in Albuquerque, San Antonio and Bear Butte in South Dakota and meets many Native Americans who are fighting to preserve their culture and their faith as well as to protect their land. more »
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In the impoverished black townships outside Cape Town, South Africa, everyone knows that the only way to improve one's life is to go to university and get a good job. And the only way to do that is to pass the challenging series of examinations known as Matric. 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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This well-researched film describes the power of viruses, which have caused unimaginable suffering and death throughout history. 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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This heartwarming film explores why people of a variety of ages, cultures, and gender orientation, still want to marry in an era when it is socially acceptable for couples to live together, forgoing wedding vows. more »
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In the Muslim country of Zanzibar, where women’s activities are severely curtailed, a feisty group of women has defied the cultural constraints by playing a man’s game—soccer—and giving reign to their competitive spirit. more »
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