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Documents just how much fathers can matter to their daughters emotional development.It looks at the special bond between fathers and daughters, especially as it relates to a woman’s career choice and her choice of men. more »
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Because gay and lesbian parents have broken the traditional family mold, they have even more choices to make. How will they get a child? Who will be the designated parents? How will they define each parents' role? Will their children have a difficult time socially? more »
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An Indian woman photographer, who photographed notables such as Gandhi, Ho Chi Minh, Queen Elizabeth, and Jackie Kennedy, yet had to publish under her husband's name. more »
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Combining footage taken by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson over 50 years ago with footage shot today, this delightful video shows how the tradition of teaching Balinese children to dance is being passed on. more »
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After being raped, Hind was cast out of her home in Morocco and stripped of her official identity. Left with no choice but to work as a prostitute and traditional wedding dancer, she refuses, despite all odds, to give up her dignity and her love for her child. more »
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This beautiful film introduces Bharata Natyam dance, a classical Hindu dance form which originated thousands of years ago. Interwoven with the performance are explanations of the history and tradition of this art form. more »
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The film details the murderous years of Pol Pot (1975‒79) when 90 percent of Cambodian dancers were executed or died of starvation or disease, and shares how survivors trained a new generation to continue their tradition. more »
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During World War II, Nazi forces attempted—and largely failed—to impose their Final Solution across Denmark, as more than 95 percent of the country's Jewish population survived the war. The Danish Solution details how so many Jews managed to escape the Nazi blueprint for their extermination. more »
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This mockumentary invents a scenario of hijacked archival footage, false documents, and interviews out of context to show that the moon landing was all filmed in Stanley Kubrick's studio. more »
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This intelligent and provocative film investigates the complex issues raised by the rap genre, such as ritualized machismo, misogyny, homophobia, and gun glorification. more »
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This documentary on gang rape and acquaintance rape is a compelling view of what is happening on college campuses. more »
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Modern Palestinian women face dramatic choices concerning their role in a free Palestinian homeland. Many female activists, for ideological and symbolic reasons choose to wear the veil and don't regard it as a symbol of oppression. more »
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Seen through the eyes of the women she influenced, including Kate Millet and Marge Piercy, this is an in depth look at one of the leaders in the international women's movement more »
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This vibrant film focuses on the struggles and successes of two local women's groups fighting to preserve their land, forests and way of life in Brazil's Amazon region. The women combine scientific study, political advocacy and grassroots activism to save their communities' fields and forests from ranchers and loggers and to improve their standard of living. more »
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This beautifully photographed, revealing film about Egypt's women captures their separate and subordinate life under the Islamic code. Men and women speak about their traditions, expectations, and patterns of life. more »
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This CBC portrait of a sixteen-year-old Down syndrome boy , whose achievements include his role in a television drama about his disability, has inspired professionals and parents who work with the mentally handicapped. more »
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After Dax was blinded, disfigured, and burned during an explosion, doctors continued his painful treatments against the patient's will. This gripping documentary poses the ultimate bioethical dilemma: does a patient have the right to refuse treatment? more »
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This multi-festival film is an unforgettable portrait of twins with cerebral palsy whose mother is determined to have them lead a full life. more »
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In 1941 a German soldier illegally photographed the doomed inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto These images form the core of this film, an extraordinary portrayal of humanity in a nightmare situation. more »
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This fanciful film takes us to the Mexican village of Patzcuaro where, on October 31 people return home from everywhere to celebrate and communicate with their ancestors and deceased loved ones. more »
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A Pakistani middle class family celebrates the engagements of their two children each who has followed a different path. The son, keeping to tradition, is marrying a woman he has never met. The daughter, a career woman, has chosen her own husband-to-be. more »
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A sympathetic and lyrical portrait of the Orthodox Jews of New York City, filmed as they observe the most important holidays of the year with prayer, song, ecstatic dancing and celebration, which speak to the history and meaning of their customs. more »
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Is drug abuse a health problem or a criminal justice problem? This program shows how the drug problem is being addressed in four major cities: New York, Toronto, Amsterdam and Liverpool. more »
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A poignant portrayal of the effect on an entire family when one of its members faces execution. Part of the Eye for Justice series. more »
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The border that runs between Tijuana and San Diego is the most heavily militarized border between "friendly" countries anywhere in the world. Yet an average of one person a day dies trying to cross into the U.S. more »
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An undercover report from China reveals the suffering of people who have been exposed to radioactivity from nuclear testing. more »
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This powerful film examines the intellectual attraction of suicide to a vulnerable teen and the impact on his family and community. 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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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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What does one do when a terminally ill loved one asks for help in committing suicide? This thought provoking film describes the dilemmas of several people who had to make difficult choices. more »
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An in-depth profile of Father Ricardo Rezende who, at personal risk, defends the landless peasants in the Amazon against the abuses of the rich cattle ranchers. Produced by Geoffrey O'Connor, filmmaker of Amazon Journal, Contact, and At the Edge of Conquest more »
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Portraits of women from around the world who have broken ground in new fields. more »
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An illuminating portrayal of a vanishing world -- the largely rural region of the Mississippi delta which has been home to a thriving Jewish community for over a century. Jews became an integral part of delta life, forging a hybrid identity that was deeply Jewish and distinctively Southern. 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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The Dervishes of Kurdistan captures the mountainous frontier of Iran and Iraq. The Dervishes' religious faith allows them to thrust skewers in their cheeks, plunge daggers in their sides, eat glass, and lick white-hot spoons. This program shows how religion and politics are intertwined in Islamic culture. more »
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This is the first full-length documentary about depression to consider the pervasive mood disorder from multi-ethnic viewpoints. 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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An exploration of how traditional culture of the Turkmans in Iran is often compromised by Western influences. 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 joyful film shows how the spirit and soul of the West African people has been passed down through the black marching band. more »
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This powerful film was photographed in the Sovereign Dineh Indian Reservation where the Navajo people happen to live on vast deposits of oil, coal, and uranium. But outside forces are at work, exploiting the mineral wealth and polluting the water. more »
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This documentary focuses on the anti-war movement within the armed forces. It highlights the intersection of the civil rights and anti-war movements, and the ethics of whether to follow orders which one feels are immoral. more »
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A new phenomenon in the global economy: toll-free telephone numbers are often answered by Indians impersonating local operators. This film follows a group of university graduates as they prepare themselves for prestigious jobs in Indian call centers, learning to speak and think like their international callers. 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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A history of the community development credit union movement which grew out of the need for African Americans to get bank loans. more »
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With domestic violence a growing problem in our society, one community, Bellevue, Washington, developed a successful counselling program which has become a national model more »
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Trash collecting may sound dismal, but in this film, shot in Rio de Janeiro, the people featured are undaunted, and proud of their survival skills. They make their living picking through trash in search of recyclable material and are popularly known as donkeys without a tail. more »
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The Double Dutch Divas are women who have mastered the art of jumping and dancing double Dutch during their twenty years together. They are a sisterhood of diverse ages and talents; they inspire audiences here and abroad with their spirit of "can-do". more »
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A 15-year-old brought up by a Mexican family while his mother was incarcerated in the U.S. as a Puerto Rican nationalist, finally comes to know his mother. more »
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In the 1950's, the patriotic Mormon community of St. George, Utah took the full impact of the downwind radioactive dust from atomic tests. Government scientists deliberately lied to the local population, many of whom developed cancer and died. more »
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A startling film which examines in detail how the French authorities arrested and interned more than 74,000 Jews before sending them to Auschwitz, which only 2,500 survived. more »
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The artwork of unschooled Haitian artists, painting with riotous color and beguiling fantasy, is gaining appreciation in the outside world. more »
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This film exposes the plight of poor, foreign-born women who are languishing in jail for carrying drugs into the United States. more »
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This colorful, lively documentary depicts the various sects of Hasidism which embody "D'vekut" in Israel. more »
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Dying is a profound and poignant portrait of three people dying at home with their loved ones. Their last days are shaped by who they are as human beings. more »
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After a twenty- five year debate, the Netherlands became the word's first country to sanction active euthanasia if it is preceded by a very deliberate and prescribed collaboration of patient, family, and medical team. There must be a review by a panel consisting of a lawyer, professor of ethics and attending physician. This film profiles four people who are terminally ill at a palliative care facility in Rijnstadt Hospital, in Arnhem. 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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