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2011-2012 New Films
67 film(s) found
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This ground-breaking film introduces us to men and women who have never experienced sexual attraction, and the challenges they face living in a sex obsessed society. 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 riveting documentary reveals that inside our mobile phones are illegally mined minerals, minerals that fuel conflict, create child slavery, and support other severe human rights abuses in the Congo. more »
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Across the globe, a major legal and scientific war raging over one simple question: should individuals and corporations be permitted to patent genes? more »
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Psychologists are now using new techniques to decipher what babies think and conducting research to determine at what age morality develops. more »
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This powerful documentary reveals the epidemic of sexual abuse of boys and its impact on both the individuals and their families. more »
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This film gives audiences unprecedented access to a commonplace story that remains tightly hidden. Despite being illegal, child marriage remains part of the culture across Africa. more »
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An ambitious Chinese businessman tries to launch a commercial center in a small town in southern Sweden. But when Chinese capitalism and Swedish beaurocracy clash, struggle ensues. 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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In the early 1990s, Bogotá was a city with significant problems: social inequality, pollution, out-of-control population growth, and poor public transportation. When Antanas Mockus, a university president, became mayor in 1993, his experimental leadership transformed the city. 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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In the world's largest democracy, urban planning can be a complicated task. Despite Mumbai’s exploding population, a collapsing infrastructure could put an end to economic growth. Public trains are filled to the bursting point and traffic is nearing a complete gridlock. But officials are hopeful that building an eight lane highway out at sea will help relieve the strain of the overwrought transportation systems. 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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The compelling film that essentially established the field of urban psychology. more »
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This film presents classic research and asks questions about why people conform, obey, and dissent in various social situations. more »
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Shot in Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Egypt, and Ethiopia, this film highlights the complex social, religious, cultural, and economic issues which underpin the ongoing practice of female genital mutilation. more »
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A Diagnosed Boy chronicles the story of Lars as he seeks treatment for his son Silas, who has been diagnosed with a variety of developmental disorders. After learning about the theories of Israeli professor Reuven Feuerstein, who believes one should challenge children's mental skills to help them overcome their disabilities, Lars travels to Jerusalem to learn more. more »
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This cutting-edge documentary ushers viewers through the hospitals, research centers, and clinics where groundbreaking research is being done on the electricity of brain function as a treatment for depression, bipolar disorder, epilepsy, and dystonia. more »
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This film documents the work of Dr. P. Gregory Warden and his team as they search the hilltops of Poggio Colia, Italy, for any clues into the mysterious Etruscan civilization. more »
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A charismatic but troubled youth strives for success at a strict new inner city charter school. His school has high expectations, but can it overcome the negativity of the community? more »
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This engaging film shows how a dedicated teacher and community organizer in New Mexico brought a colorful, passionate Hispanic dance to America. more »
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While many have characterized WikiLeaks boss Julian Assange as a heroic champion of free speech, his ongoing exposé of US foreign policy would not have been possible without the work of Private Bradley Manning. Reporter Quentin McDermott tells the inside story of Bradley Manning and his daring intelligence heist. more »
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Selected by his mentor to lead the Bejart Ballet Lausanne, Gil Roman is well aware of the dauntingly large shoes he’s expected to fill. His choreography and his leadership must prove worthy to secure the future of the institution, which has never before operated without its founder’s active guidance. more »
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This beautiful film explores the rich culture of rice, still the basis of survival for most people throughout the world, which is poised to change forever due to genetic engineering. more »
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This award-winning film is a journey across three continents telling the story of the up-and-coming baby production industry in the age of globalization. more »
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This important documentary investigates the effect of incest on three women as it illuminates their journey from pain and despair to recovery to finally working to end the cycle of incest. more »
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This portrait of young Chinese rock musicians in Beijing provides a glimpse into the lives of a generation awakened by Western cultural forces, despite the conservatism of their parents’ generation and their government. more »
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Startling occurrences of aggression in youth gangs are depicted and related to key scientific findings. more »
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This film explores the stories of three adult children who have returned to live with their parents as they grapple with current struggles, future dreams, and past failures. more »
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This documentary follows the journey of a doctor trying to balance his own enthusiasm for medical technology with an acceptance that, after a long and healthy life, it may be time to go. more »
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Three questions are asked in this film, providing an overview of social psychology: What is its subject matter? What are its methods of investigation? What are some of its findings? more »
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In this documentary film, captured at the Santa Fe Art Institute, viewers hear from a diverse array of artists, including sculptors, painters, weavers, musicians, and writers. They share their thoughts and feelings as they journey on a chartless path to creating a masterpiece. more »
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Languages Lost and Found is uniquely thought provoking for those who take their language for granted. It will be a resource for courses in anthropology, communication, ethnomusicology, and the humanities in general. more »
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The Legacy Project is a ten-DVD series that documents and preserves the creative process of America's most esteemed writers for the theater in a series of filmed conversations, each featuring an established stage author or collaborative team interviewed by a younger emerging writer. 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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The German army’s 1940 invasion of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg marked the beginning of a long ordeal for the nation’s people. For more than four years, Nazis occupied the country, eager to destroy its independence and integrate the Grand-Duchy into the Reich. more »
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Aggravated by the influx of undocumented immigrants and fed up with the lack of government involvement, the self-appointed Minutemen take up watch along the border between the United States and Mexico. more »
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From 1942 to 1944, nearly twenty-five thousand Jewish men, women, and children were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. Fewer than fifteen hundred survived. This film raises and systematically answers the question: How did just a handful of Nazis, with the help—voluntary or unwitting—of the Belgian authorities, bring about their destruction? more »
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When aging mothers move in with their grown daughters, the role reversals trigger social conflict, emotional adjustments, and unexpected difficulties. more »
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This documentary explores how several Japanese women struggled to reconcile their traditional upbringing with their desire to create unique lives. more »
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Birger Bergmann, a man living with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease), is committed to helping other patients with the neurological disease consider their options and make the best possible medical and personal choices. more »
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This film shares the story of the life and works of Doris Humphrey, a seminal figure in modern dance who forever changed the way dancers move, the conception of choreography, and audiences’ experience of dance. more »
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Milgram examines scientific findings on communication through gesture, body posture, intonation, eye contact, and facial expression. more »
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The classic documentary that reveals the extraordinary actions average people will take to follow orders. more »
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Many say Singapore has the best education system in the world. This film shows how this system has produced such amazing results and how it differs from the educational philosophy as practiced here in the U.S. more »
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This is the portrait of the life and work of choreographer and dancer Rudy Perez, who left Puerto Rico as a teenager, studied with the legendary New Dance Group in New York, and became a postmodern pioneer in the dance world. more »
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Faith, identity, and sexuality collide as three gay and lesbian Seventh-day Adventists are caught between the church they know and love and their desire to be fully accepted for who they are. more »
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It is the first day of school in grade four of the Shanghai Experimental Primary School. The film follows the children through the semester as they learn, misbehave, flirt, play, and take exams under their teacher's watchful eye. more »
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What is it like to be an entrepreneur in today's China? This engrossing film provides an up-close view of the daily life of a tour operator in Shanghai determined to become wealthy. more »
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This remarkable film profiles a couple that craves personal freedom, but is faced with the unwanted constraints of parenthood. In a society where grandmothers are expected to care for babies, how much freedom is it reasonable for a mother to expect? more »
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This series on contemporary China is filmed from an insiders point of view and portrays daily life in one of the nation's busiest and most iconic cities. 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. It tells the tale of the rebellious wordsmith who created a new genre of literature and used his remarkable humor to encapsulate the realities of the Eastern European Jewish world in the late nineteenth century. more »
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Though it’s generally accepted that the human mind affects the body, this film gives dramatic examples, supported by scientific data, of people who recovered from debilitating physical and mental illnesses, including depression and post traumatic stress syndrome, without the aid of medication. more »
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This set includes all six of Milgram's videos and provides the important visual imagery essential for understanding the foundations of social psychology. more »
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Renowned writer Stieg Larsson’s Millennium books—including The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo—are renowned bestsellers worldwide, spawning films in Sweden and in Hollywood. Though they are considered mysteries, Larsson’s partner Eva Gabrielsson explains their true intention as fierce social criticisms. more »
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This is the story of a daughter whose father left the family when she was young to pursue his gambling addiction in Las Vegas. It follows the daughter's struggle to get her father off the streets and back into society. more »
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This award-winning film sheds light on the perils faced by Chinese miners as they unearth the ore that fuels China’s booming economy. more »
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In 1947, Japanese American basketball player Wat Misaka was the first person of color to be drafted into the NBA. This film shares his journey to overcome discrimination during this turbulent period in history. 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 today’s age of globalization, this film provides a portrait of how the local population of a “developing” African nation responds to influx of foreigners who strive to bring economic growth, but often stir up cultural conflict in the process. more »
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The first and largest federally funded artists’ colony in the United States, Westbeth became home to a generation of artists grateful for cheap rent and a place to live and work. Since 1970 the west Greenwich Village site has provided a home to artists who range from emerging to well-established and represent a wide variety of disciplines. more »
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Barely one year after Conrad Hilton opened his new luxury hotel in Havana, Fidel Castro overtook the building for use as his revolution’s headquarters. more »
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Where Birds Don’t Sing chronicles the horrifying stories of two concentration camps in the Third Reich, Ravensbruck and Sachsenhausen, and ends with a moving reunion of the survivors. more »
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As life expectancy increases and we continue to amass more information, memory loss is becoming a growing epidemic. This film explores the world of recall and methods for improving memory. more »
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A touching portrait of an Iraqi refugee family, resettled in the US, that holds on to hope for a better life while dealing with the challenges of adjustment. more »
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This personal film explores what it means to navigate racial identity in America as the filmmaker recounts the story of his own family across generations. His father's experience as a Jewish professor at a black college influences the filmmaker as he contemplates the i"preferred" race of the baby he and his wife hope to adopt. more »
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This film relates the remarkable story of Wojtek, the soldier bear, one of the most beguiling wartime animal personalities who became a legendary mascot during World War II. more »
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