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The film explores the recent history of Libya, isolated since Colonel Gaddafi seized power thirty-five years ago. For decades an enemy of the West, Libya is now desperately trying to rejoin the rest of the world. It is using its vast oil reserves -- to woo back former foes especially the United States. Gaddafi's Gamble asks: why now? more »
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Skillfully compiled from still photographs smuggled out of China, eye witness accounts and news sound tracks, this short film recreates this tragic event in Chinese history. more »
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This beautifully filmed documentary captures traditional life in rural Yemen with a close-up view of a culture which revolves around the search for water. But with the discovery of oil, the outside world is coming to Yemen. more »
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This documentary has been designed to break the silence surrounding adolescent homosexuality. more »
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With DNA profiling and new laws, police are better able to solve crimes, even crimes committed years earlier. This timely program traces the development of DNA profiling in forensic science and shows how effective it is in identifying criminals. more »
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Families often pass violent behavior on from one generation to the other. Parents, children and professionals share their experience and insight. more »
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This intensely personal film traces the filmmaker’s search for identity within the culture of her Armenian parents and in the context of the larger multicultural society in which she lives. Weaving together archival footage and interviews with elderly survivors of the Genocide, it creates a deeply felt portrayal of a holocaust that the Turks deny. more »
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The film tells the story of the building of a great bridge, and of its brilliant engineer, Othmar Amman, more »
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A portrait of what it’s like to be an "illegal alien." Geronimo came to the U.S. not knowing a word of English, went to school by night, and sent money home to his family in Mexico. When he returns home for a visit, one sees how hopeless life is for those who have remained in his village. more »
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Each year, some 60,000 young Mormons are sent abroad to seek converts to their religion in an obligatory rite of passage. The film contrasts their naive idealism with the realities of such missions. more »
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A powerful and moving film exploring the complexity of female infanticide in southern India and showing steps that are being taken to eradicate the practice 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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Girls in White Dresses is the delightful chronicle of young middle-class African American women in Oxnard, California, who eagerly participate in the coming-of-age ritual of the debutante ball. more »
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An intimate portrayal of the lives of three runaway girls. All are the victims of heartbreaking family life, yet each shows the capacity of life-affirming resilience. more »
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This powerful film looks at what Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the National of Islam, means to black society, how he came to his leadership role. It puts the movement into historical context. more »
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This film takes us to New Lots, in East Brooklyn, New York, a community plagued with unemployment, drug abuse and violence. A charismatic preacher, Dr. Johnny Ray Youngblood, infused new life into New Lots through his parish work. 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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The film chronicles the experiences of Mexican farmworkers and their isolation in a land of plenty. Historical footage and interviews trace the history of the United Farmworkers Union. more »
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The fabled Golden Triangle of southeast Asia is the home of heroin, morphine, and a host of amphetamines. On the rugged hillsides and in remote clearings, rippling seas of golden poppies grow. The area is still the fiefdom of drug lords and their cronies, where conflict is the norm and everyone is armed. more »
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Good Fortune is a rare and intimate portrait of two vibrant Kenyan communities, one rural, one urban, battling to save their homes and businesses from large-scale development organizations 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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The film examines the tremendous influence Google has on the corporate world and culture at large. more »
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This ironic film show how the natives of Papua New Guinea are confused by the rivalry for conversions among competing churches more »
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Religion, archaeology and understated drama intertwine in the story of the discovery of ancient papyrus manuscripts in southern Egypt in 1945. more »
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This Scandinavian-made film shows women of all ages and shapes enjoying themselves unselfconsciously during a summer's day at the lake. more »
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From Academy Award winner Paul Wagner comes this warm portrait of six elderly Americans whose vigor belies their age. Three are folk artists, one a baker, one a political activist, and one a bayman on the Chesapeake. Though they remember the past, they still relish the present and live it fully. more »
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This film describes the remarkable partnership between black South African grandmothers who are raising their grandchildren, orphaned by AIDS, and a group of grandmothers from North America who are being supportive of them. more »
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A film about three abused inner city boys who are given the opportunity to heal at a unique facility in rural New York. The philosophy at Green Chimneys is that troubled children can be "reached" through giving them responsibility to care for an animal. more »
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This documentary explores the Greensboro Massacre of 1979 and its aftermath. Members of the Communist Workers Party massed for a “Death to the Klan” rally when a caravan of Ku Klux Klan and American Nazis arrived. The Klansmen opened fire. A quarter of a century later a truth and reconcilliation committee explores the tragedy. 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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Women of varying ages and social background recall the vivid and often disturbing memories surrounding their first menstrual period. more »
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A fascinating look at the Sambia people of the mountains of New Guinea, whose society is shaped by the ritualized distinction between male and female roles. more »
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Since 1986, thousands of Mexican men have legally entered the United States to work as part of the little-known H-2A guestworker program, put in effect during the Reagan administration. Filmed on both sides of the border, The Guestworker chronicles the lives of such farm workers and explores the issues surrounding the program.. more »
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Since 1992 a white ballet dancer has been teaching classes to African children in the township.The program Dance for All has made a difference in their lives more »
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A devastating account of the discrimination and impoverishment of the Roma in Eastern Slovakia. more »
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