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Psychology
• Abnormal Psychology
• Autism
• Child Development
• History of Psychology
• Marriage and Family
• Physiological Psychology
106 film(s) found
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This remarkable film shows in a short space of time many examples of children from pre-school age to high school, and even adults, who suffer from ADHD. more »
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Navigating the transition from adolescence to adulthood is challenging for even the most mature and privileged youth. For three young people in New York and Los Angeles, making the transition to independent living is considerably more difficult as they "age out" of the foster care system. They suddenly discover that they¹re on their own for the first time. Aging Out chronicles the daunting obstacles that these veterans of foster care encounter as they are forced to fend for themselves. more »
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A psychiatrist produced this sensitive film on bereavement, showing four children aged three to eleven, who lost a family member through death. more »
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This program examines anger, from its primordial roots in self-defense to its expression in modern violence. Part of a four-part series, Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain. more »
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This film is about two people faced with the daunting task of learning to speak again. As the wife of one of them says, "...a person without language is a non-person." more »
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This sensitive film takes a comprehensive view of autism by focusing on three children of different ages, with different behavioral patterns. more »
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This is a story of a family where paranoid schizophrenia took its heavy toll, but also gave it the courage to forgive. Young Matthew McBride stabbed his parents to death hours after release from a mental hospital. Matt¹s brother and sister were left to deal with not only the loss of their parents but the well being of Matt, who was not responsible for his actions more »
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This informative documentary explores the possible origins of autism and the therapies developed for treatment. A broad spectrum of professionals share their views. more »
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This is a follow-up to Borderline Syndrome, showing how, six years later, the women have made strides in coping with their illness and living independentl more »
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Vanessa enjoyed a loving, secure family life until the age of twelve when her sixteen -year-old sister began having schizophrenic episodes. From that moment on, life in the family was fraught with concern and anxiety for the mysterious, unpredictable and frightening behavior of her adored sibling. more »
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Gives a clear presentation of a relatively new diagnosis. Experts Dr. James Masterson, John Gunderson and Marilyn Gewacke talk about diagnosis and treatment more »
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A portrait of idiot savant Stephen Wiltshire who has an uncanny ability to draw buildings from memory. Oliver Sacks wrote about him. more »
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This film takes us to an inner city high school where students had serious discipline and learning problems. The teacher improved test scores by instituting exercise programs, as recommended by a Harvard researcher. 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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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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This film looks at families struggling with pre-schoolers who have serious behavioral problems. It demonstrates how early intervention may help. more »
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How do cults hold on to their disciples? This film explains how long-term conditioning takes place. 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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This documentary portrait of three suicidal youngsters will help counselors, parents and young people begin a constructive dialogue. 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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This powerful film examines the intellectual attraction of suicide to a vulnerable teen and the catastrophic impact on his family. more »
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People afflicted with this disorder invent illnesses in order to be admitted to a hospital. Psychiatrists don’t yet understand it, but it diverts valuable health resources away from those who really need them. more »
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This is a clear, concise and well-presented overview of the physical psychological and social aspects of depression. more »
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This is the first full-length documentary about depression to consider the pervasive mood disorder from multi-ethnic viewpoints. It has been shown at many professional meetings. 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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This fascinating documentary brings us to laboratories in Italy, France, Israel and Switzerland where researchers are trying to untangle the mysterious working of the brain in order to help those who suffer from these disorders. more »
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This documentary on facial kinetics begins with a brief history of the field and then reports on current research. more »
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This CBC program is an engaging study of how we chose our mates and for what reason. Dr. John Money discusses the "love map", or blueprint of the ideal relationship we carry within us. more »
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This film documents the studies of Dr. Frans de Waal, the internationally known ethologist who based his spectacular book "Chimpanzee Politics" on his unique study at the Arnhem Zoo in Holland. more »
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Fear is the most primal and powerful emotion, from its evolutionary origins in the involuntary fight-or-flight survival instinct, to its essential function as a learning tool today. Part of a four-part series, Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain. more »
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Violent interactive video games make up a 20 billion dollar industry. These games may have an addictive quality, especially to teenage boys, whose lives often become dominated by them. What effect does brutality in virtual reality have on the minds and psyches of the young? more »
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Fascinating portraits of three idiot savants: one who is gifted musically; one who is a mathematical genius; and one who is an artist. more »
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Drawing a distinction between the lasting state of happiness and the pursuit of instant pleasure, the program explores the evolutionary role of happiness, and asks what happens in the brain, and possibly in the genes, that makes some people happy and others sad. Part of the four-part series, Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain. more »
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Samantha Khury has made a profession of being an animal therapist. She seems to communicate with race horses, goats, dogs and cats whose owners want to discover what is troubling their animals. more »
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The sexuality of the handicapped has always been a taboo subject. In this ground breaking film, we learn of an experimental program recently begun in Switzerland: "sex workers" of both sexes provide sex for a fee to people who are physically or mentally challenged. more »
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The insomniac-filmmaker, hasn’t slept like a baby since he was one. He has spent thousands of nights thinking about sleep when he should be sleeping. He decides to get help, meeting with the world’s top sleep doctors and scientists. more »
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In this shockingly frank program we hear adult women tell of the childhood experiences that so traumatized their later years. Included is the testimony of a formerly abusive father who underwent psychiatric treatment. ( more »
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This fascinating program investigates the historical, cultural and modern scientific approach to confirming the existence of our pre-cognitive abilities. Scientific researchers are pushing the science of parapsychology forward and are proving that a correlation exists between physical science and parapsychology. more »
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Is Love Enough? provides a remarkable window on an unexplored phenomenon in a balanced fashion: can a mentally disabled person be a good parent? 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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Jackson was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at age 4. Now at age 9, thanks to early intervention, he is an accomplished second-grader, charming and gregarious. more »
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This is a portrait of an adolescent who suffers from a severe case of Tourette Syndrome. Dr. Oliver Sacks comments on the case. more »
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A realistic portrait of the financial and emotional challenges faced by single mothers heading households. 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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Who decides how life ends? The patient? The family? The physician? The healthcare system? Last Rights is a compelling documentary film looking at the choices available to four dying people. The intent is to introduce viewers to the complexity of end-of-life choices. more »
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Dr. Norman Geschwind of the Harvard Medical School introduces this fascinating film on hemispheric brain research. 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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The film is a vivid character study of a strong minded lady in her declining years, confused between reality and delusions. more »
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The film shows three families adjusting to the emotional and physical demands of raising a baby. more »
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The film follows one strong, open, lively girl as she navigates the passage from preadolescence to adolescence. We follow Lila from a tree-climbing eight-year-old who likes to compete with boys, through the complexities of a changing body and a new set of rules for behavior. more »
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Living the Roller-Coaster explores the experiences of two young women attending Stanford University who were diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder more »
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Here is the story of an unusual nuclear family, Roberta and Phil and the two chimpanzees they have adopted. It shows the joys and challenges of life with our closest primate relatives. more »
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This sensitive film portrays the emotional difficulties men have who have grown up without a father. more »
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This program examines the complexity of the emotion we call love, from the burning desire that can strike suddenly, to the giddy euphoria of falling in love. Part of the four-part series, Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain. more »
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This portrait of autistic teenagers at a state school in England captures their frustration at not being 'normal'. more »
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A dramatized case study of manic depression more »
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Why did a shy student with no criminal record commit the worst gun rampage ever at a U.S. college? Psychologists, professors and witnesses try to understand what went wrong. more »
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This documentary, filmed in Ho Chi Minh City, chronicles the search of an awkward 38-year-od Singaporean for a young, beautiful Vietnamese bride, with the help of a marriage broker. more »
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Neuroscientists such as Donald Stuss are now learning about the once-misunderstood frontal lobes of the brain from studying brain-injury patients in depth. more »
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This Nature of Things documentary explores many aspects of memory, such as long and short term memory, hypnosis and amnesia. more »
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This film explores the lives of four child molesters. Three are in treatment at the nation's largest community-based facility in Seattle; we witness dramatic group therapy sessions and learn how devastating this crime is to the child and the family. more »
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The life and work of the man who pioneered in the field of medical hypnosis and therapy. more »
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Western researchers are turning to Eastern spiritual practitioners for illumination on the workings of the mind. They want to learn how meditation affects attention and consciousness, and how it controls the emotions. more »
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This film from the National Film Board of Canada's series "The Elderly at Risk" deals with the difficult issue of community intervention when a reclusive elder neglects himself to the point of offending his neighbors. more »
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This film makes a strong case for beginning music education at a very early age because of its precursor to language skills. We hear from Prof. Howard Gardner of Harvard University. more »
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A spirited group of people of varied ages and backgrounds recall the first time they made love. Some are funny, some sad – all are interesting! more »
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The sexual abuse of children committed by women, most often mothers, is a rarely documented subject. In this film, six victims of maternal incest powerfully convey their nightmarish child hoods. more »
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With Drs. Berry Brazelton, Lewis Lipsett and Louis Sanders, this film documents the extraordinary capabilities of the newborn baby. more »
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A portrait of a high functioning autistic young woman will sensitize viewers to the disorder. more »
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This startling documentary reveals how the internet contributes to alienation, especially in the area of human sexuality. In North America alone, more than 8 million people pursue sex online at least 11 hours a week. The internet has actually removed touch and human contact from sex more »
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Here are inspiring portraits of five loving families, each caring for an emotionally handicapped, or alcohol-addicted member, with often rewarding results. more »
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An intimate portrait of twenty-three-year-old John Cadigan, the filmmaker’s brother who became seriously mentally ill while he as an art student at college. more »
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Peter and Jill de Villiers of Harvard University, researchers in language acquisition, provide a clear and informative description of the child’s linguistic development. more »
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A four-part series that looks at the primal emotions that are generated in the brain, and how nature and nurture combine to make us feel the way we do. The parts are Anger, Fear, Love and Happiness. more »
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This masterful documentary examines pornography in its social and historical context. It explores whether freedom of expression and the preservation of values which define a civilized society are irreconcilable.Well-known law professors, civil rights advocates and feminists give their views. more »
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In this film, eight courageous people struggle to conquer their paralyzing fears through psychotherapy, behavior modification, acupuncture and homeopathy more »
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This documentary explores the effects of hard core pornography in our society. Does it indeed contribute to violence and de-sensitization? more »
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Autism, a neurological disorder, affects as many as one in 150 children in the U.S., yet is the least funded of disabilities. By following six families with autistic children for two years, this film takes us inside the world of autism specifically at the Eden II School, in Staten Island, New York. There, the filmmakers gained unique access to children like Sarah, Aaron and Benjamin, triplets who all showed severely autistic symptoms at eighteen months. more »
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Why are men violent toward women? How can they change? [italics]A Room Full of Men[/italics] is a riveting documentary that examines a group of men with a history of abuse towards women, and their efforts to change. more »
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Four year old Robin, who is autistic, has been mainstreamed into a normal school. This film follows his progress, as well as the satisfaction his teacher’s take in his achievement. more »
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A compassionate look at a wide variety of people who suffer from phobias and anxiety disorders, and the different forms of therapy used to help them. more »
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The emotional story of a family forced to deal with schizophrenia not once, but twice. Two brothers were afflicted with the disease. The third made this film. 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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Narrated by Eli Wallach, this film shows us the birthplace of psychoanalysis with its book-lined study and collection of antiquities. Photographed shortly before Freud fled the Nazis. more »
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Gives a clear explanation of what happens to us during the unconscious hours of sleep, and how our sleep patterns affect productiveness. more »
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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 »
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This gripping documentary exposes the alarming rise of sexual predators on the Internet. more »
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Dr. Allan Levi is suspended from work and in trouble at home due to his episodes of manic depressive illness (Bipolar Disorder). Filmed in the year after Allan's diagnosis, Sunny Intervals is an intimate and ironic portrait of a marriage and a family in crisis. more »
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Almost half a million children in the United States are in foster care. They were taken from their parents who were deemed unfit to care for them. This is a sensitive exploration of the long term emotional and psychological costs of this policy. more »
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Three people who suffer from psychotic disorders describe it from the inside out. more »
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At the beginning of "To Be or Not To Be," two mothers wonder if there is a place in the world for their two sons. Isaac Larsen and Willie Smith have Down syndrome. Eventually the two are admitted to a 'regular' elementary school program and the film then follows Isaac and Willie through their last year before sixth grade graduation. more »
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A portrait of the ilmmaker's brother, a delightful 21-year-old with Asperger's syndrome. The family tries to prepare him for independence. more »
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This is a wry look at the way parents, scientists, and the baby industry try to give young ones a competitive edge. more »
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This film looks at the dramatic change in the kinds of toys available to children. Several noted psychologists, including Dr. Jerome Kagan, offer their views on the effect of toys on children’s behavior. more »
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Why do so many children have such a hard time learning to read? What is at stake for them? Who can help them? This revealing documentary makes the important connection between early trouble with reading and serious behavioral problems in the classroom. more »
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A poignant, humorous and unforgettable portrayal of three men struggling with schizophrenia. We learn how they and their families cope with the vagaries of the illness. more »
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This brutal child abuse case caused the state of Washington to re-examine its child protection laws, which until then seemed lese concerned with the welfare of a child than with keeping families together. more »
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Documents the work of the pioneering psychiatrist whose work helped to humanize the care of mental patients. more »
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This innovative work is based on an actual letter by a teenager reaching out to understand a childhood of sexual abuse. more »
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Using hidden cameras, this film captures the interaction of three children with serious behavioral problems, and their parents. It shows how a whole family can be in turmoil if there is no intervention. more »
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A sensitive study of the effect on children when their mothers are incarcerated. more »
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This award-winner addresses the concerns of working parents, the needs of both children and day-care providers, and the social risks of day-care shortage. more »
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Shot over a three year period, this emotionally wrenching story reveals the bond that develops between two brothers who long to be reunited with their mother. Despite the neglect and disappointment they suffer, these extraordinary boys never give up hope that they will some day live with their mother and be a family again. This powerful new film chronicles the mother’s agonizing battle with crack addiction and the grandmother’s struggle to keep the family together. 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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From the "Nature of Things" series, this film investigates how babies become bilingual, how school children fare in language immersion classes, and how adults cope with learning foreign languages. more »
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