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38 film(s) found

	The Adventurers Series This intriguing four-part series is about scientists and anthropologists searching for vanishing populations, lost cultures and hidden cities. Their work expands our knowledge of hitherto "lost" people. They are: The Last Nomads - The Penan of Borneo; The Everlasting Oasis - Ancient Egypt Before the Pyramids; A Story Told in Stone - French Polynesia; and The Lost People of the Baja - The Pericu of Baja California, Mexico. more »
	American Thirst, Canadian Water The political issues behind the control of water in North America. more »
	Amish Riddle This view of the Amish shows a dynamic people who have modified their rules so that they can prosper in commercial enterprises. Modern conveniences, such as telephones, that they shun at home they use in their businesses. more »
	Anatomy of A Springroll This charming film shows how the filmmaker, an immigrant from Vietnam, found a new life in America while preserving his cultural tradition through cooking, eating and sharing the rich and varied food of his homeland. First in a trilogy, with Pins and Noodles and A Wok in Progress. more »
	The Anatomy of Eloquence This documentary examines the physiology of speech and shows how the larynx, vocal chords, wind pipe, tongue and lips produce the sounds of speech. Useful for speech and hearing programs. more »
	The Brain That Changes Itself 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 »
	Buried Stories "Buried Stories" reveals the life story of a Native American Ella Rodriguez, who, in her seventies, resents that she was taken from her rural California home at age thirteen and sent to an Indian boarding school. A resilient woman, she now fights to preserve her ancestors’ history. more »
	A Child Shall Lead Them During two days in September 1957 several courageous students and their parents desegregated the Nashville school system. more »
	Covered Girls Muslim-American girls are lively and full of fun -- despite wearing the traditional "hijab". Since 9/11 they must cope with suspicion. more »
	The Cyborg Revolution Cyborg technology is a revolutionary development in rehabilitation medicine. It allows the brain and nervous system to manipulate specially engineered devices that help people regain the use of impaired body function. more »
	Chuck Davis, Dancing Through West Africa Here is a spirited celebration of traditional African dance filmed in the villages and suburban compounds of Senegal and The Gambia. Chuck Davis performs with his company, the African American Dance Ensemble, on one of his frequent trips to West Africa. more »
	The Emperor's Eye: Art and Power in Imperial China This spectacular film brings to light the priceless treasures of China's imperial art collection, relating them to the political climate of their time. It also describes how the collection survived both war and revolution in the 1930-40's. more »
	The Everlasting Oasis Egyptologist Tony Mills unearths artifacts and examines skeletal remains of "the other Egypt," an area around the Dakhleh Oasis, far away from the pyramids and the Nile. more »
	Fire Eyes: Female Circumcision A Somali woman filmmaker who was subject to circumcision explores the issue of female genital mutilation in her culture. more »
	First Contact Academy Award Nominee, 1984. This is the classic film of cultural confrontation that is as compelling today as when it was first released over ten years ago. more »
	Hear and Now After 65 years of silence, Paul and Sally Taylor decide to undergo cochlear implant surgery and explore the totally unfamiliar world of sound. In this deeply personal memoir, the filmmaker documents the profound changes in her parents' lives after the surgery. more »
	The Last Nomads Linguist Ian Mackenzie preserves the unique language of the Penan of Borneo, the last true nomadic hunting and gathering people on earth. more »
	Learning to Hear This touching film explores the challenges and triumphs of two women. aged 36 and 44, who regained their hearing after undergoing a cochlear implant. The film follows the women through surgery, and shows their joy at rediscovering the hearing world. more »
	The Lost People of the Baja Paleo-athologist Eldon Molto examines the bones of the now-vanished Pericu of Baja California, Mexico, using DNA to piece together the story of a fierce and independent people. more »
	The Lynchburg Story: Eugenic Sterilization In America This haunting film tells the story of what happened at The Lynchburg Colony for the Epileptics and Feebleminded, in Virginia. Between 1927 and 1972, over 8,000 children were forcibly sterilized in an attempt to "purify the racial stock." Hitler's eugenics policy was inspired by this example, and its proponent was awarded an honorary doctorate in Germany in 1936. more »
	The Machine That Made Us Gutenberg's development of the printing press, one of the most important machines ever invented, ignited a cultural revolution. Stephen Fry, writer and actor, travels to the birthplace of the 15th Century machine and commissions a modern day craftsman to build a working replica that demonstrates the brilliance of Gutenberg's invention. more »
	Moving Mountains: The Story of The Yiu Mien 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 »
	My Father the Luo "My Father the Luo" is about a young woman with a similar multicultural heritage to President Barack Obama. Roma Ndolo’s mother is European and her father from Kenya. Like Obama, she journeys to Kenya to find her “African side.” Each of their fathers was from the Luo tribe. There is historic footage of Obama’s initial journey in 2006. Roma Ndolo is an example of a person successfully integrating her multicultural identity. more »
	Original Intent: The Battle for America Originalists believe the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted in the way the Founding Fathers understood it in 1789 -- an era when only white men were allowed to vote and slavery was legal. Others believe the Constitution was crafted in broad, open-ended language and that its meaning evolves over time. This film argues that the far right is using originalism as a cover to advance a radically conservative political agenda. more »
	The People v. Leo Frank This dramatized documentary drawn verbatim from testimony examines the painful story of the only known Jew to be lynched in America. Originally from New York, Leo Frank was the manager of a pencil factory in Atlanta in 1913, when he was falsely accused and convicted in the rape and murder of a worker, thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan. The case was a key factor in launching the Ant-Defamation League. more »
	Pollution in China 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 »
	Slender Existence This multi-festival film documents the filmmaker's ten-year struggle with anorexia nervosa. Antidepressants and therapy helped her return to normalcy, and now she wants others to know about this disorder. more »
	Sound and Fury This Academy Award nominated film is the story of two brothers who anguish over whether to allow their deaf children to have cochlear implants. One brother welcomes the chance for his child to be part of the hearing world. The other brother, who is deaf, does not want his offspring to leave the deaf culture and its sense of community. more »
	Sound and Fury: Six Years Later This is an engaging look at Heather Artinian six years after her family's saga captured audiences in the Academy Award-nominated documentary Sound and Fury. In the first film, Heather’s parents decided not to implant her. In this stand-alone follow-up film we learn that Heather finally did get the implant at age 9. She is now popular at school and excels academically. more »
	A Story Told in Stone Archeologist Edmundo Edwards explores the French Polynesian islands which are filled with huge stone cities, left by thriving native populations that were wiped out by European disease. more »
	Testing Hope 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 »
	The Tipping Point The Arctic sea ice, a plate of ice roughly the size of Europe, is disappearing. In addition to the environmental concerns, the political and economic implications are dramatic. more »
	The Turkish Perspective The film captures the complexities of modern day Turkey. Geographically, it straddles Europe and the Middle East; culturally, it is caught between Western cosmopolitanism and traditional Muslim values. more »
	Virus Hunters This well-researched film describes the power of viruses, which have caused unimaginable suffering and death throughout history. Chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and mental illness, are also now suspected of being caused by viruses. more »
	Voices from El Sayed Because of a genetic predisposition, the Bedouin village of El Sayed in southern Israel has an extraordinary number of deaf people. The people of this village never regarded deafness as a handicap. They even created their own sign language. When one child was offered a cochlear implant by the Israeli government, the community was very conflicted. more »
	Willa Beatrice Brown: An American Aviator Willa Beatrice Brown was the first African American woman in the U.S. to be a licensed pilot. Her  efforts were responsible for Congress' forming the renowned Tuskegee Airmen squadron, leading to the integration of the U.S. military service in 1948. more »
	The Words of Silence Four deaf performers, an actress, a dancer, a percussionist and a mime explain how their art transcends the spoken word more »
	The World At His Fingertips Mike Van Oman, married and the father of two sons, lost both his sight and hearing when he was in his thirties. With the help of the Helen Keller National Center, he overcame despair and found a renewed sense of life and purpose. more »